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Robert Manne
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Robert Manne | The Nation Reviewed | Environment | Foreign Affairs | Politics
Over 200 years ago human beings began burning large quantities of the coal, oil and natural gas that had been buried under the Earth’s surface for hundreds of millions of years. This may eventually come to be seen as the most fatal misstep in the history of humankind. When the industrial revolution...
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Robert Manne | The Nation Reviewed | February 2010 | Politics | Society & Culture
Windschuttle’s argument can be summarised like this. While there were many separations of Aboriginal children from their mothers, families and communities during the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the numbers have been wildly exaggerated by the “orthodox” historians and by...
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Robert Manne | The Nation Reviewed | November 2009 | Politics
Paul Keating and John Howard were early players in what Australians have come to call the History Wars, whose main field of battle is the bitter and still unresolved cultural struggle over the nature of the Indigenous dispossession and the place it should assume in Australian self-understanding. In...
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Robert Manne | The Monthly Essays | October 2009 | Politics | Society & Culture
We have known for several years that Paul Kelly was preparing to publish the sequel to The End of Certainty. Last month it finally appeared. There can be no question that The March of Patriots is a brilliant, if deeply flawed, achievement and a work of first-rate significance, almost certain to...
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Robert Manne | Economics | Melbourne | Melbourne Writers Festival | Politics
Part 1 | Part 2 Do ideas matter? For the past thirty years faith in the free market has dominated most Western societies. After September 2008, with the collapse of the unregulated global market in financial products, the faith has been shaken. In this lecture at the Melbourne Writers Festival Ro... » play video
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Already it is becoming clear that his attempt has failed. A decade ago, when John Howard led the Coalition and Pauline Hanson fascinated the country, the ideological balance of the electorate tilted very clearly to the Right. Since 2007, however, opinion polls have consistently shown that younger...
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Robert Manne | July 2009 | The Monthly Essays | Society & Culture
Shortly after midday we learned that a fire had broken out in Kilmore, some 50 kilometres to the north-west. From now on we were alert, glued to ABC local radio and the Country Fire Authority website. It soon became obvious that this was a serious fire. Wallan received threat warnings. Wandong came...
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Robert Manne | June 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Environment | Politics
The Labor government of James Scullin was elected in October 1929, the month of the Wall Street crash, which history regards as the beginning of the Great Depression. In November 2007, the Labor government of Kevin Rudd was elected ten months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which history...
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Robert Manne | May 2009 | The Monthly Essays | Business | Politics
The forum begins with Eric Hobsbawm, the author of the magisterial quartet The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire and The Age of Extremes. Hobsbawm, a former communist and lifelong member of the Left, is not only unquestionably the most formidable interpreter of the patterns...
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The causes of the global financial crisis are already reasonably clear. The crisis originated in a series of interconnected developments within the American financial sector. From the 1980s a vast market in obscure and opaque financial instruments known as derivatives developed there. The market...
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Robert Manne | Climate change | Environment | Interview | Melbourne | Video | Society
Two of Australia's leading public intellectuals, Robert Manne and Tim Flannery, engage in a compelling discussion about climate change. Flannery, author of the recent Quarterly Essay, Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?, speaks of the latest climate projections and the acceleratin... » play video
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Two of Australia's leading public intellectuals, Robert Manne and Tim Flannery, engage in a compelling discussion about climate change. Flannery, author of the recent Quarterly Essay, Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?, speaks of the latest climate projections and the acceleratin... » play video
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Robert Manne | November 2008 | The Monthly Essays | Politics
In 2007, I was involuntarily drawn into an argument about the likely performance of the Rudd government. Before the election, many people on the Left in Australia were beginning to express misgivings about what was called Kevin Rudd's "me-tooism": his support for the Howard government...
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Robert Manne | Climate change | Lecture | Politics | Rudd Government | Sydney
Speaking at a session entitled 300 Days: Social Inclusion and the Rudd Government form, Robert Manne gives a frank appraisal of the first 300 days of the Rudd government. After highlighting its different approach (from the Howard government's) to, in particular, indigenous affairs, the rights of... » play video
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As those who follow ideological politics in Australia are aware, it is one of Gerard Henderson's many unpleasant habits to engage his enemies in legalistic email exchanges, usually based on a petty grievance about something they have said or written about him, and then, after their patience has...
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Robert Manne | The Nation Reviewed | August 2008 | Environment
During the past several weeks I have been reading, with a racing pulse, some recent literature on global warming while watching, with a sinking heart, the political skirmishes connected to the introduction of the Rudd government's emissions-trading scheme. The experience of moving between these...
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Robert Manne | Liberal Party | Politics | Politics | Public event | Sydney | Sydney Writers' Festival
Part 1 | Part 2 - Tony AbbottIn this Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 event, Robert Manne and the Hon. Tony Abbott debated the future of the Liberal party. Their differing outlooks are expressed as not just ideological differences, but products of vastly different readings of the legacy of the Howa... » play video
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Robert Manne | Liberal Party | Politics | Public event | Sydney | Sydney Writers' Festival
In this Sydney Writers' Festival event, Robert Manne and the Hon. Tony Abbott debate the future of the Liberal party. Their differing outlooks are expressed as not just ideological differences, but products of vastly different readings of the legacy of the Howard years - both in social and polit... » play video
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In November 2002 Keith Windschuttle published The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, volume one: Van Diemen's Land: 1803-1847. The publication was instantly greeted as a major cultural event almost entirely because of the accusation raised by Windschuttle that the most important contemporary...
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