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Our National Shame: Violence against Women (In the National Interest) by Kate Fitz-gibbon
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The expos s in early 2021 of sexism and sexual violence in Parliament House prompted women across the country (and some men) to take to stages, lecterns and social media to express their rage and demand action. However, while these events highlighted that violence against women is an ongoing issue in ou ...Show more
Power & Consent by Rachel Doyle
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The scandal involving Dyson Heydon, former justice of the High Court, confirmed that the scourge of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces was also to be found in the chambers of one of the seven most senior judges in the country. An unquestioning reliance on the calibre of the fine legal minds appo ...Show more
Respect (In the National Interest) by Jill Hennessy
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
When Héritier Lumumba’s Collingwood teammates called him ‘Chimp’, it showed a lack of respect. When the Prime Minister referred to Brittany Higgins by her first name in parliament, it showed a lack of respect. When senator Bill Heffernan referred to then prime minister Julia Gillard as ‘deliberately bar ...Show more
The Big Teal by Simon Holmes à Court
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The May 2022 election marked the great re-engagement of those ignored and patronised for too long on climate, integrity and gender equity. The electoral map has been dramatically redrawn. However, the triumph of the 'teals' was not entirely unexpected to those assisting their rise, such as Climate 200 f ...Show more
The Case for Courage (In the National Interest) by Kevin Rudd
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
For some time, Australia's democracy has been slowly sliding into disrepair. The nation's major policy challenges go unaddressed, our economic future is uncertain and political corruption is becoming normalised. It's tempting, but distracting, to point to the usual list of reasons, from the declining ca ...Show more
The Digital Revolution: A Survival Guide (In the National Interest) by Simon Wilkie
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the digital disruption of business by the information and communications sectors, is well underway in Australia and around the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated the pace of change. We are witnessing a proliferation of new platforms and new markets, with ...Show more
Tides that Bind: Australia in the Pacific (In the National Interest) by Richard Marles
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
As the many nations of the Pacific deal with the threat of climate change, including rising sea levels and lessening access to fresh water, they are also suffering from some of the slowest rates of development of any region on earth. Now more than ever, the Pacific needs a champion, and that champion ne ...Show more
Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics (In the National Interest) by Bill Bowtell
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering ...Show more
Who Dares Loses: Pariah Policies (In the National Interest) by Wayne Errington, Peter van Onselen
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Why does Australia go through cycles of public policy boldness and timidity? The COVID-19 crisis has shown that the Australian political system has much more tolerance for policy innovation than appeared to be the case on the evidence of the previous twenty years. As another election approaches, though, ...Show more