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.
Tag Archives: capitalism
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 [...]
Challenging the Mining Elites
December 15, 2011 – 12:25 pm
The implications for the capitalist economy and Australia’s mining in the face of Climate Change by Conal Thwaite
Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?
November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am
It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson
Two Worlds
June 2, 2010 – 3:24 pm
John Hinkson discusses the implications of two worlds developing on the cultural stage
Food Riots: System Breakdown
April 2, 2008 – 1:13 pm
John Hinkson on food shortages, population growth, climate change, and why neo-liberalism as an untenable social order
Climate Change is Not the Basic Issue
February 2, 2008 – 1:06 pm
GEOFF SHARP argues that the technoscience–capitalism convergence has supercharged climate change. We need a movement to tackle that.
Just Keep Walking
February 2, 2006 – 8:42 am
Shame has become passé, a victim of a culture that views it as an impediment to achieving one’s own ends. But at what cost to how we treat others, asks Mark Furlong
