With the death of Margaret Thatcher we might reflect that we certainly need political leadership in a new key after the debacles unleashed by the leaders of the 1980s.
Category Archives: editorial
Shifting Ground by Alison Caddick
February 17, 2013 – 12:03 pm
Julia Gillard has announced the date of the next election. As she dons spectacles for the first time in public, perhaps hoping for the well-known ‘halo effect’ of glasses suggesting intelligence, here perhaps rationality, the message is all about purpose, planning and technical competence. What we’re getting is a PM and a party serious about [...]
Producing Refugees (Editorial 1) Permission to Abuse (Editorial 2)
December 13, 2012 – 3:34 pm
By John Hinkson
Hope-Less Futures?
June 21, 2012 – 9:17 pm
Women and children feel much safer now we are told. It is only when we go to the ground and recall that any relations between Aboriginal people and police in the present are built upon a deeply fraught history that the prospect of increased policing takes on a different inflection.
By Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson
