Comment: The ALP Afterlife
By Julian Morrow
Within a week of resigning as Finance Minister, as well as accepting an academic posting Lindsay Tanner became a special adviser to “pre-eminent financial advisory and asset management firm” Lazard. At Lazard, he may well work with the firm’s “Chairman, Corporate Advisory International”, Paul Keating.Former Queensland premier Wayne Goss is now the Australian chairman of Deloitte, a firm
Blanche’s Boy
By Anna Krien
“Until recently I’ve been pretty half-hearted about Welcome to Country,” Jack Charles confesses as he faces a room of social workers at a drug and alcohol rehab centre in Melbourne’s Fitzroy. A short Koori man with fuzzy white hair floating around his head like a dandelion, Jack’s initial sense of ‘country’ was Box Hill Boys’ Home, his “first and foremost siblings” approximatel