Davis mentions the book when I ask him why, at a time when the higher education sector is more stressed than ever before, he is trying to introduce radical change. “There are always arguments for doing nothing,” he says. True, higher education is badly underfunded by...
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Margaret Simons
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The Monthly Essays | Business | March 2010 | Politics
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Benjamin Law
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The Nation Reviewed | Business | February 2010 | Society & Culture
It’s 4.20 am in Kingston, 30 minutes out of Brisbane, and already the place is a hive of human activity. In the darkness, people haul crates out of a huge delivery truck – the words “Tribe of Judah Care Services” printed on its side – and into a warehouse. A muscular Pacific...
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Paul Barry
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The Monthly Essays | Business | February 2010 | Society & Culture
This occurred in November 2004, shortly after Kakavas was spotted at the tables in Las Vegas by Kerry Packer, who rang Crown’s chief operating officer, John Williams (son of Lloyd, the casino’s founder), to ask why Kakavas wasn’t losing his money in Melbourne instead. By this...
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Malcolm Knox
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The Monthly Essays | Business | Media | November 2009
The Absence of Trust
Murdoch’s choice of speech title was a simple pun. The object of his attack was to be the BBC Trust, the governing body that, he argued, has let the public broadcaster run out of control. James Murdoch likes wordplay and literary...
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Elliot Perlman
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The Nation Reviewed | Business | October 2009 | Politics
Dear Prime Minister,
In the February Monthly you wrote that “the great neo-liberal experiment of the past 30 years has failed … and the free-market fundamentalism it has produced, has been revealed as little more than personal greed dressed up as an economic...
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Benjamin Law
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The Nation Reviewed | Business | October 2009 | Society & Culture
The story goes like this: Ernest Hemingway, master of literary economy, is challenged to write a narrative in 10 words or less. Hemingway, of course, comes up with a heartbreaker in six. “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” It’s also been strongly rumoured, however, that...
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Malcolm Knox
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The Monthly Essays | Business | October 2009 | Society & Culture
Invited to speak at The Australian Club in Sydney a couple of years ago, I felt reticent about telling, say, my wife where I was going. After all, being caught inside this type of gentlemen’s club may carry more shame than being spotted in the ones with poles and mirrors....
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Mungo MacCallum
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The Nation Reviewed | Business | Politics | September 2009
Political leaders find it particularly irksome. It was painful enough to be called into the media mogul’s Sydney headquarters, worse still to be invited to his rural estate – ‘Cavan’, near Canberra – to don gumboots and compliment him on his livestock. But to be summoned...
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Noel Pearson
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July 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Business
In the same month, Macfarlane told an international conference of banking supervisors in Sydney that it was “simplistic to insist on the totally free movement of capital in all countries and in all circumstances” and said, “We need to devise a system for...
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Guy Pearse
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July 2009 | Arts & Letters | Books | Business | Politics
Robert Kaiser’s exposé of lobbying in Washington, DC helps to explain why Barack Obama has declared “war on lobbyists”. It also leaves the Australian reader very uneasy about the cosy détente between government and lobbyists here, and the...
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