Rising house prices put at risk the economic stability of the nation.
Hal Pawson and Bill Randolph. 30 March 2021. Housing policies are contributing to stagnating economic growth and putting at risk the economic stability of...
The reset to lift us out of the Covid recession has to be bold: returning to where we were is nowhere near good enough.
Ross Garnaut The University of Melbourne. 5 March 2021 Talk about returning the economy to normal after the crisis is misguided. Before the crisis,...
Social agencies stunned by refusal to lift unemployment benefits.
Editorial Bruce Duncan 5 March 2021 Business leaders, economists, and social agencies were stunned and appalled by the recent refusal of the Morrison government...
JobSeeker – what a missed opportunity to help the most impoverished.
Jenny Begent. 5 March 2021. Now that we have happened upon fortunate times, let us recognise that we are our brother’s keepers, and set...
In an age of cancel culture, can I find room in my heart for empathy?
Sr Patty Fawkner. 5 March 2021. Beyond outrage, indignation, and justified critique, in an age of cancel culture, can I find room in my...
Not knowing one’s enemy: fundamental intelligence failures in Australia’s Afghanistan & Vietnam.
Greg Lockhart. 5 March 2021. There are disturbing parallels between what occurred in Afghanistan and what occurred in Vietnam 50 years earlier than that....
How good is Morrison’s Australia? Going backwards and being left behind.
Noel Turnbull. 5 March 2021 After seven years of a Coalition government, household debt is the second highest of 43 countries; we ranked third...
We are the 1%: the wealth of many Australians puts them in an elite club wrecking the planet.
Alex Baumann Western Sydney University. Samuel Alexander University of Melbourne. Among the many hard truths exposed by COVID-19 is the huge disparity between the...
The Church & repairing democracy after Trump.
Bruce Duncan. 8 February 2021. The assault on the US Capitol building by Trump supporters trying to overturn the election not only shocked the...
SPC News February 2021.
8 February 2021. Some signs of hope. Editorial Peter Whiting Hopeful signs have emerged in recent months: The inauguration of Biden as US President...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Some signs of hope.
8 February 202 It has become a cliché : “She/he is a glass-half-full sort of person”, playing out as we enter 2021 after the...