Journal
Articles
Cuba’s China syndrome
‘VIVA RAUL! VIVA Cuba! Viva la Revolución!' I awoke abruptly, stumbled over bottles at my feet and leaned over...
Made in China
FOR THE FIRST in history, a communist country is in a position to bring down global capitalism. The Chinese...
Material or post-material?
THE AMERICAN POLITICAL scientist Ronald Inglehart argues that ‘the basic value priorities of western publics' shift in affluent times...
No soft landing
'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principal.– Benjamin Franklin FOR A...
A short prehistory of the future
Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!– Samuel Beckett, Endgame Above all, the bourgeoisie produces its own...
The crumbling estate
NEARLY FIFTY YEARS ago I walked into the Dickensian editorial offices of The Age in Collins Street, Melbourne, to start a...
A new globalisation
WHEN THE DEEPEST economic crisis of the past fifty years finally ends, a changed world will be left in...
An outsider’s perspective
I RECENTLY PARACHUTED into the crucible of the American policymaking debate when I was invited to present alongside Robert...
Stupid money
Shortlisted, 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Essay Advancing Public DebateAt particular times a great deal of stupid people have...
End of another era
WHEN THOUSANDS OF unemployed miners, steel, clothing and textile workers, their friends, families and organisers pushed through the glass...
Suite: FA
Practising penmanshipscribbling infinityzero available balancewearing spectaclesdrawing hand-held mirrorstransaction declinedcollecting duck eggsnetting tennis ballsaccount overdrawnstacking platesflying saucersnil employment opportunitiessewing buttonsexciting...
After the afterword
THIS IS AN ending to my latest novel, The Book of Rapture, that was eventually abandoned – creating a very different...
