A Challenge for the Human Race — the Need for Leadership

David de Kretser
There has been much written and spoken about the issue of climate change over the past few years. These discourses build the case that there is a significant change in ...
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A Charter of Rights for Australia

Julian Burnside
There is one measure which, if adopted in Australia, would make an important difference to this flawed democracy of ours: it is a Charter of Rights. The response to the ...
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Adequate Support for People with a Disability

Bruce Bonyhady
Kenny and thousands of other people with disabilities in Australia fall through a huge gap in our social services network, because their injury or disability is non-compensable. Because of this, ...
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Artificial intelligence and government

Emma Martinho-Truswell and Sabrina Martin
Artificial intelligence offers a daunting challenge for government: a potent mix of high expectations, big budgets, a competitive international “AI arms race”, and elevated public fears. Some governments, such as ...
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Australian Government Action in the 1980s

Joan Staples
Twenty years ago in 1989, Environment Minister Graham Richardson took a proposal to Cabinet for a 20% reduction in greenhouse emissions by 2005. He was unsuccessful, but two years later ...
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Beyond Vox Pop Democracy: Democratic Deliberation and Leadership in the Age of the Internet

Nicholas Gruen
In 1981 a young political junkie with progressive sympathies, Joe Trippi, joined the campaign to make Tom Bradley governor of California, and so the first black governor in US history ...
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Bibhu Aggarwal

The Bolt Case: Silencing Speech or Promoting Tolerance?

Words are powerful. They can forge bonds of mutual respect and understanding, as they did when a nation apologised to all Indigenous Australians for the profound grief, suffering and loss ...
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Larissa Behrendt

The Long Path to Reconciliation

We live in a world forever changed by the terrorist attacks in New York City on 11 September 2001 that made people feel vulnerable in a way that they hadn’t ...
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Larissa Behrendt

You Do Not Inherit; You Hold On Trust

The concept of sustainability has always been central to indigenous cultures. Native Americans believe that you have to consider the impact of your actions on the next seven generations. And ...
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Bruce Bonyhady

Adequate Support for People with a Disability

Kenny and thousands of other people with disabilities in Australia fall through a huge gap in our social services network, because their injury or disability is non-compensable. Because of this, ...
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Julian Burnside

A Charter of Rights for Australia

There is one measure which, if adopted in Australia, would make an important difference to this flawed democracy of ours: it is a Charter of Rights. The response to the ...
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Joshua Crowther

Civic Virtue in Australian Democracy

Western liberal thinkers and politicians note with pride democracy’s expansion across much of the globe. They prize their democratic political theory as the most judicious, ethical and creative of all ...
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