by Mary Gaudron | Sep 14, 2026 | Papers
If, as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I am knocking on the gates right now. I had intended to speak about Jessie Street the internationalist. I had intended to do some research on the topic. But unfortunately, life got out of control once...
by Human Rights Watch | Aug 28, 2026 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 22
Attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank are increasingly driving the forced displacement of Palestinian communities, with dozens at risk of erasure. Israeli authorities are arming, funding, and granting impunity to the violent settlers responsible for these...
by Cory Doctorow | Aug 14, 2026 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 22
I’m a science fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our current techno-social arrangements to interrogate not just what a gadget does, but who it does it for, and who it does it to. What I don’t do is predict the...
by Anthony Albanese | Aug 1, 2026 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 22
I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respect to elders past, present and emerging. It’s great to be back at Sydney University, a place that holds so many fond memories. When I was studying economics here in the...
by Frank Stilwell | Jun 14, 2026 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 22
The 2006-7 federal budget is this government’s most significant budget yet. It makes changes to the structure of taxation and government spending that embody substantial economic and social reforms. Not surprisingly, this has ruffled some feathers in the body...
by Gareth Bryant, Ben Spies-Butcher | May 1, 2026 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 22
On 12 October 1929, James Scullin led the Labor Party to what was then its largest ever majority. It was unfortunate timing. Over the 1920s Australian governments had become the largest borrowers on the London money markets. In 1925, the United Kingdom returned to the...
