Publications

Raymond Gaita writes in The Conversation (15.11.16) about the lows that the Trump campaign descended to during the US Presidential election. ‘Many people in America and

Tilman Ruff writes in The Conversation (16.11.16) about a likely resolution of the United Nations to ban the production of nuclear weapons, a resolution which Australia’s

Professor Robert Skidelsky writes in The Guardian (15.11.16) that there is Keynesian merit in Trump’s policies which challenge the neoliberal obsession with deficits and debt reduction.

In Australian Policy Online, Tim Conley writes (15.11.16): ‘While those on the centre-left are wringing their hands and tensely running their fingers through their hair, beards

In Inside Story (15.11.16), John Quiggin considers the future after the Trump election: ‘In the longer term, though, there are plenty of reasons for hope. Most obviously, tribalist

John Birmingham discusses the Trump/Brexit phenomenon in the Brisbane Times (15.11.16): ‘Open markets have generated staggering, almost unimaginable wealth, but not for everyone. As the old

Josh Gordon reports in the Sydney Morning Herald (13.11.16) on a speech by Bill Shorten: ‘Shorten last week came under fire for branding the US President-elect “barking

An AAP report, reproduced in The Guardian (12.11.16), suggests that ‘North Queensland could become its own state under plans from a powerful bloc of MPs to force

‘Political alienation is relatively muted here because we have a system that leaves fewer people behind – and we must hold onto it’, writes Lenore Taylor

On 11 November 2016, the Premier announced a minor reshuffle of her Cabinet following the resignation of the Minister for Agriculture, Leanne Donaldson. Queensland Government reshuffle

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‘Academics and the business community predict that in the next 15 years, masses of jobs will become automated. But rather than be worried about a jobless