Peter Hartcher

Peter Hartcher is a Gold Walkley Award–winning journalist and a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute. His books include To the Bitter End, Bubble Man and The Sweet Spot.
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Left Behind: Why the Right Keeps Winning
Peter Hartcher
It was Carnegie, son of the arch-establishment businessman Sir Rod Carnegie, who emerged as the media star of the Gillard government’s tax...
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Peter Hartcher
Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free - and the only developed nation...
More ...Governing the global economy: Protectionism vs Bretton Woods 2.0
Part 1 | Part 2Perceived failures of the current world worder have increased demands for a new international economic architecture to...
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The Conflict Business: Australian Political Memoirs
Peter Hartcher
One of the standout episodes illustrating the tomfoolery of federal parliamentarians is the time that Peter Costello flung a sheaf of paper...
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