Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis is challenging powerful sectional interests sharply in his new social manifesto to be released on 4 October. The new encyclical,...
Reaganomics and Thatcherism were characterised by huge transfers of income and wealth from the poor to the rich, writes Roger Beale. Even such august...
The Covid-19 crisis has deepened sharply in Australia, with Victoria going into Stage 4 lockdown, and other states on edge. The situation in many...
Covid-19 presents us with an opportunity: increased equality in society, resilient to the challenges ahead, or a society ruled by power imbalances, struggling to...
Few of us could have imagined that a virus invisible to the human eye could bring the world economy to its knees. Wealthy countries...
Photo Depression revisited. futureatlas.com/blog. flickr cc. 4 June 2020. Australia’s present budget deficit is unprecedented, but it represents an appropriate response to the recession. The...
7 May 2020 On top of countless human tragedies, there will be many long-lasting social and economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Perhaps none...
7 May 2020 By now, we’re all familiar with the rationale that we’re undergoing these Covid-19 limits to our personal freedoms and employment in...
7 April 2020. This article considers economic strategy post-Covid-19. In Part 1, it is argued that the principal requirement will be to raise the...
7 May 2020. For weeks now, Covid-19 has dominated the world’s media. We’ve had endless facts, advice, and commentary on the virus itself, the...
Peter Whiting Posted 7 April 2020 It has all happened so quickly that it’s difficult to take it all in. The changes to our...