still have a functioning government and an economy that's the envy of the Western world ...

PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-07 11:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

a modern economy ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-23 15:15 - 0 comments

Tricky strategies with the US and China "A nyone who is inclined to think that America would defeat China in any strategic contest the way it beat the Soviets has forgotten a vital difference. China's economy works.  For Australia, ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-29 13:53 - 0 comments

Eisenhower and Vietnam, when everything was on a knife edge and the world could be won or lost. The moment ... got back to the house and JRH disappeared into the shadows of his home. * Among the world’s ... is not clear in this quiet place, and the extreme economy with electric light enhances the ambiguity. While I ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

to the worldwide financial collapse of four years ago, from which the world economy has not yet recovered. Some, ... in the world for the strength of our economy and our egalitarianism. We can show the way in our politics ... Those brutal lines seemed to encapsulate what was then a growing sense of unease in Australia. The world ...

The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments

English) women enjoyed the greatest freedom of any women in the world.” That the surviving children ... published in 1975, Jean Leidloff evoked a different world. Telling of her time living with the Yequana tribe ... and the wider economy. For an ‘heir’ of de Beauvoir, Badinter is surprisingly apolitical. Though she notes ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

Pain without gain "Last week the European Commission confirmed what everyone suspected: the economies it surveys are shrinking, not growing. Worse yet, European leaders are still wedded to the economic doctrine responsible ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-21 13:52 - 0 comments

of post-reform surging growth, which has seen its economy grow by around 8% per year, lifting it into the ten largest economies in the world. Its population is poised to become the world’s largest within ... economy and population surge, Canberra faces diplomatic challenges in forging closer ties with New Delhi. ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Why John J Mearsheimer is Right (About Some Things) “Whether China is democratic and deeply enmeshed in the global economy or autocratic and autarkic will have little effect on its behavior, because democracies care about security as much ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-01-20 14:28 - 0 comments

into the country’s distorted and moribund economy, in which almost a quarter of the budget is diverted ... the homes of some of the world’s longest-lasting armed insurgencies. After the 2010 election, fighting ... of the economy, a dollar buys 800 to 1100 – a yawning gap that was used by the military to mask ‘withdrawals’ from ...

The Monthly - Sebastian Strangio - 2012-02-07 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

that have made the United States a beacon to the whole world. And fondly do we hope, Mr President, fervently ... what you would call real mates – in this part of the world to hang out with. Mr President, ... and self-indulgence, the good society by the security state, the civilian economy by the military–industrial complex. ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-02-23 14:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

World central banks act to prevent fresh credit crunch "Central banks from around the world have announced emergency measures to boost liquidity in the global economy and prevent the financial system from freezing up." (Also: Q&A - ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-01 14:28 - 0 comments

and the fact that he is widely perceived to have mismanaged the economy. Since World War II, only one American ... that claims to be the corn capital of the world. It sits opposite a gas station on a road leading through ... a Washington Post poll found half of all Americans thought Obama’s economic plan was not affecting the economy ...

The Monthly - Julia Baird - 2012-02-07 16:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

writes: “There is hardly an aspect of the modern economy that does not involve the transfer of costs ... persuaded him to favour an even larger and more dangerous mission to save the world. Scruton refers ...

The Monthly - Peter Singer - 2012-02-08 14:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Will China break? "I t's impossible not to be worried: China's story just sounds too much like the crack-ups we've already seen elsewhere. And a world economy already suffering from the mess in Europe really, really ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-20 14:33 - 0 comments

Greenland, recounts the first moves to hook up with Bob Brown, who had founded the world’s first ‘green’ ... into that fortress mentality. It’s crap, it’s a reflection of their barricaded world.” Brown and Rhiannon ... notions of class struggle and a more centralised control of economies.” Buckingham says the fact that he ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

pointed out that, as the US was the world’s largest economy and that its GDP had grown in the previous ... War movement when the settled culture of the Western world was breaking up. Christine’s father, Dr ... take that down – it’s not every day you get to interview the world’s biggest security clown. ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Change, ENVIRONMENT, Obama, Sustainability, United Nations, World economy) ... This is an edited extract from  Quarterly Essay 44, Man-Made World: Choosing between Progress and Planet  by ... from the world’s most powerful nations had assembled with their advisers. Of course, this was not what ...

The Monthly - Andrew Charlton - 2011-11-28 09:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(American Economy, Global finance, USA, The Drum) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-21 14:06 - 0 comments

Financial capitalism suffered a dreadful collapse in 2008 and the economies of the United States and Europe ... I happen to be one,” he said on Lateline . Australia’s budget position is a world away from ... Center. Around the world, ordinary people are paying a tremendous price for the failure of financial ...

The Monthly - Peter Hartcher - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was reported around the world; it estimated ... was spreading around the world, claiming more casualties every year. Sex selection is easily measured. ... to, and the means to pay for, ultrasounds. As Monica Das Gupta, chief social scientist from the World ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2010-06-10 14:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Italy pushed closer to financial brink "The difference this time is that Italy, the third largest economy in the euro zone, is on a different scale than those other, much smaller European nations." ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-10 14:28 - 0 comments

(World economy, ECONOMICS, Foreign Policy) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-03 14:18 - 0 comments

went on to row for Australia at the world championships in Yugoslavia in 1989. Former Olympian ... the importance of a strong economy, small business, the defence industry and entrepreneurship, and derided ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Italy's crisis: End game for the euro? "Italy is Europe's fourth-largest economy; its bond market is the world's third largest. And in a matter of no time, the liquidity in that market is drying up. And what's scary here ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-11 14:34 - 0 comments