SPC News June 2021.
The dream of SPC is one for every generation. Peter Whiting Editorial. The decision (communicated in our May SPC News) to put SPC into...
Learnings from SPC.
Bruce Duncan. 13 July 2021. Since Social Policy Connections’ humble beginnings nearly twenty years ago, hundreds of people have been involved in the journey...
Editorial Peter Whiting.
The dream of SPC is one for every generation. It is illuminating to look back over a nineteen-year span, and consider goals achieved and...
SPC News is going into hibernation.
Peter Whiting Editorial. The months of lockdown due to the pandemic have seemingly ended in Australia, although their effects linger on for many. Friends...
We need to tell it as it really is!
Editorial. Peter Whiting. 30 March 2021. During the waning years of the Trump presidency, it became fashionable to reference the inordinate number of misleading...
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...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Signs of hope, despite the gloom.
The tree outside my window is showing the first promises of Spring. The white blossom is just emerging, and with a few warm days...
Peter Whiting Editorial. Enabling people to flourish after Covid-19.
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...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Australia’s mixed record on human rights.
3 July 2020 Photo Black Lives Matter Rally Melbourne 6 June 2020. Matt Hrkac. flickr cc. Polls conducted over recent months indicate that voters...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Sustainable Development Goals point to how to address post-Covid reforms.
Photo 70th Anniversary of UN, display of SDGs. UN photo/Cia Pak 2015. flickr cc. 4 June 2020 With the easing of Covid-19 restrictions coming...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Covid-19 – return to a ‘normal’ world, or a radically different one?
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...