ECONOMICS: Mining boom
SOCIETY
Life Sentence
Victoria Laurie
His father, Anthony, has since graduated to one of Perth’s higher security prisons, which is also where Malcolm’s 21-year-old brother,...
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ECONOMICS
Too Much Luck: Paul Cleary on the Mining Boom
Paul Cleary in his recent book Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia's Future shows how the resource boom, which seems a blessing,...
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SOCIETY
Riding High: The Toyota HiLux and the Tradie’s New World
Don Watson
Climb into a Toyota HiLux and at once you feel “the commanding outlook”. It’s just as the brochure says. Nissan Navara lacks very little in...
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POLITICS
Australia's Long-Term Challenges. Julia Gillard
At the inaugural Per Capita Reform Agenda series, Prime Minister Julia Gillard addresses Australia's long-term economic outlook and the...
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WORLD
'Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia’s Future' By Paul Cleary
Saul Eslake
For commodity-exporting nations such as Australia, the urbanisation and industrialisation of China and India present a once-in-human-...
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SOCIETY
Into the Beehive: The Destruction of Burrup Rock Art
Robyn Davidson
We all know what justifications, arguments and perspectives are likely to be heard from the competing interests (competing visions of value...
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The Coming Storm: Out of Work in a Land of Plenty
John Birmingham
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....
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John Hirst
If a town hall has an organ should it also have an official town-hall organist? I thought I took a wide interest in public affairs but...
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