Liberty, Fraternity and – what was the other word? How equality fell off the political agenda in Australia
Barry Jones
‘Equality’ dropped off Australia’s political agenda in the 21st century. Both sides of politics recognise that winning elections depends on winning votes from ‘aspirationals’. So progressive taxation was dropped, education ...
NCDs and the Culture Wars: Creating Healthy Policies to Prevent NCDs
Rob Moodie
...NCDs are closely related to human behaviour. We are what we eat. We are also what we drink, smoke and exercise. And these behaviours are very much part of the ...
New Media, Political Infantilisation and the Creativity Paradox
Barry Jones
When Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published in 1982, my predictions about the potential impact of the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Revolution were regarded as ...
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Gareth Evans
There is no more fundamental human rights issue than a threat to life on this planet as we know it. There are only two such threats that international policy failure ...
Our Place, Our Environment, Our Future
Barbara Norman
For Australians, our sense of space and place are central to our identity and culture. From the first inhabitants of Australia to the diverse range of migrants who have made ...
Politics, Journalism and 24/7 News Cycle
Malcolm Turnbull
Thirty-three years ago, when I joined the news room of the London Sunday Times, its editor, Harry Evans, gave me ‘Editing and Design’ a five-volume manual of English typography and ...
Michael Kirby
Sexuality
Recently, I visited Kenya. A huge legal conference held in the Jomo Kenyatta Conference Centre in the middle of Nairobi. The meeting gathered lawyers from all parts of the Commonwealth ...
David de Kretser
A Challenge for the Human Race — the Need for Leadership
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 ...
Marcia Langton
Indigenous Exceptionalism and the Constitutional ‘Race Power’
Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians is a fraught topic, presenting legal as well as moral challenges, and involves a large set of issues beyond my scope here. I want to ...
Michael Lavarch
Free Speech, Responsible Media, Law and Liberal Democracy
In this chapter I will be discussing the role of the media in a liberal democracy, and the tension between the essential free flow of information in a free society ...
Ian Marsh and Sam McLean
Why the Political System Needs New Media
This chapter describes the roles that new media might play in rebuilding links between Australia’s diverse publics and the formal political system. We will show that democratic engagement has been ...
Emma Martinho-Truswell and Sabrina Martin
Artificial intelligence and government
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 ...