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  • Comment: The Return of Deficit Economics
    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...

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    Nick Bryant | June 2009 | The Nation Reviewed

    Shirt by fluorescent-orange shirt, the quilt will take shape: a gaudy patchwork emblazoned with the logo of the world's biggest mining company, BHP Billiton, and embroidered with the names of its one-time employees who now have lost their jobs. Shirts are being collected at...

  • Haiku Hikers
    Linda Jaivin | June 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Society & Culture

    We've come to the Telegraph Station, four kilometres north of Alice Springs, for a welcome to country by Marie, an Arrernte elder and traditional owner. Marie informs us that she writes and teaches, leads a dance troupe and artists' group among other things, and that she...

  • Hollywood Ending
    Leigh Sales | June 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Business

    It's Saturday night and Steve Carroll sits behind the counter in his suburban video store watching the door and hoping for customers. Once, back in the "halcyon days", as Steve calls them, he needed two staff for the hectic Saturday shift. Now the action mostly comes from...

  • The Coming Storm: Out of Work in a Land of Plenty
    John Birmingham | June 2009 | The Monthly Essays | Business

    The small, wiry and intense man who discovered his luck had run out on Black Friday is happy to be known by his internet handle, Havock21. Hundreds of people know him by that name, on Twitter, Xbox Live and the numerous blogs he visits, including mine. On his own blog, too,...

  • Patriot Acts: Learning from America
    Waleed Aly | June 2009 | The Monthly Essays | Foreign Affairs | Politics

    Hendi is the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Despite the sober surrounds, he fizzes with energy and urgency. Certainly Hendi has his academic commitments - he teaches a class on inter-religious relations - but within him dwells the spirit of an...