Last month, the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward, released her 277 page report, A time to value, in which she proposed a government-funded 14 week paid maternity leave scheme, for women in the paid workforce. The problem with this is: what happens after 14 weeks? The unspoken assumption is that the mother simply returns to…
Physician heal thyself We can all make a list of books about Australian society which never seem to appear; whereas, the equivalents can be found regularly turning up; selling well, and, quite often, sparking important debates, in Europe, Britain and most especially the United States. All we seem to get are pamphlets and slim monographs, coming out of some Institute or think tank, sparsely reported, finding limited distribution, and soon forgotten. The descriptions of many important public policies, and changes in our society are being left to the tender mercies of politicians, pressure group advocates and a handful of journalists.…
It’s official! Or so our newspapers tell us. The US and Australia are to start talks on so-called “free trade”. And the process is to be “fast tracked” – talks will begin within 90 days. When they will be concluded, and to what purpose, is another matter. Some of the commentators – especially those with…
Peter Warburton published his book Debt and Delusion in 1999. It first came to this writer’s attention less than a year ago. The curious thing is that – though it has been part of the language for two years – readers of News Weekly have not so far been exposed to a review of its most compelling and important contents. “the large economies of theWest …are becomingthe servants of globalfinancial activityrather than its masters.” In this writer’s view it is, by far, the most important exposition of the contemporary practices in financial markets and how these have contributed to the…
The global financial meltdown that so many people have been predicting has not occurred, but there is little doubt that most national economies have been performing quite poorly in recent years, with the IMF having to bail out more and more countries. Few of these bail outs seem to confer long term benefits, and mainly…
A year after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, President George Bush has unveiled a new strategic doctrine which foreshadows a first-strike strategy against terrorist organisations and “rogue states” such as Irak and North Korea. It gives the strongest possible indication that the Bush Administration is…
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