Debate Archives

Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.

The echo-chamber

JØRN LOMBORG FLEW to Australia to provide "balance". In October 2003, just as the Kyoto debate was cranking up...

By Katherine Wilson

Fair-weather friends?

I LIKE BOB Carter. Even in a kilt. He has that baritone warmth that men share when they assume...

By Robyn Williams

Making the grade

PROGRESSIVES IN AUSTRALIA have generally adopted a conservative approach to reform of primary and secondary education. This would be...

By Andrew Leigh

Research to excellence

WHAT PETER DRUCKER described as the "knowledge economy" in 1969 is now a competitive global market, with higher education...

By Gavin Moodie

Doctrine of the top 500

IT IS OFTEN said that there are only 500 people in the country. Of course, this is untrue. There...

By Charles Firth

Talking on the terrace

A FEW YEARS ago, I attended a wedding party in a guesthouse in a Bavarian village. The place was...

By Natasha Cica

Knowledge nation, states and the pork barrel

ONE OF THE biggest changes federation made to Australia in 1901 was the joining of six separate post and...

By Jock Given

No news – farmer prospers in drought

THERE HAVE BEEN so many droughts in Australia since European settlement that it's a wonder they command so much...

By Tom Connors (dec.)

Land rights and progressive wrongs

IN AUGUST 2003, Prime Minister John Howard visited the community of Aurukun and attended the annual Cape York Land...

By Noel Pearson

Saving our cities with suburbs

OVER THE PAST few years we have experienced a massive and sustained attack on the form of Australia's cities....

By Patrick Troy

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