"No Man Only Needs a Little Salary"
Charley in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Latest Papers
The working papers collection comprises historical papers as well as current ideas and works in progress on some of the major issues and topics of our times.
One of the out-takes from the short but spectacular reign of KV band, Wasted Management, featuring lead singer Dash Moore and bass player Henry Rutherford
Australia's grim record on health care for Indigenous people is by far the worst of any developed nation. Developed? How can a country be "developed" when it leaves so many of its children behind? Australia has not provided its citizens with an equal opportunity for primary health care, education, housing, employment, let alone recognition and a life of dignity. Ian Thorpe, Beyond Sport Summit, London, July 9
The Kimberley and the schemes of economic development embarked upon by governments and entrepreneurs have a chequered past ... when history is ignored it is destined to be repeated. Extraordinarily the same thinking that got us into this mess in the first place is now being proposed as the solution.
Australia claims to be a modern society, imbued with the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and with a sense of reflective wisdom about the appalling immorality and consequences of global colonisation, racism and genocide. The current relationship that exists between Australia’s First Peoples and the nation state is incompatible with the status that Australia claims in the global community.
While there is no independent, credible, national Indigenous leadership forum, there will be no resolution of the structural and ideological impasse between Australia's Indigenous leaders, and subsequently, the endless cycle of failing policies and bitter debates will continue.
Malcolm Turnbull needs to bring Noel Pearson to Canberra as a conservative to not only revive the quality and substance of the Coalition, but to improve the fabric of the whole National Parliament.
Two outstanding Australian women: newly elected Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, and one of Australia's great, but unsung, composers, the late Dulcie Holland, feature. "Letter from Australia" is a regular podcast commentary on Australian politics and issues. It features contemporary Australian music that is tragically often ignored by the mainstream media and is not well known enough - even in its native land.
The Heavenly Sisters perform their song "Marrkapmi Garray (Beloved Christ)" in Yolngu mata accompanied by the yidaki master Djalu Gurruwiwi.
The Heavenly Sisters sing their song "My Saviour Loves Me" with words first in English then in Yolngu mata.
Geoffrey Gurrumul's sister, cousins and nieces are The Heavenly Sisters of Arnhem Land. "Somewhere Beyond the Blue", "My Saviour Loves Me" and "Marrkapmi Garray (Beloved Christ)" (recorded Monday 16th March at Wallaby Beach, Nhulumbuy), are their first publicly released recordings. Their songs are composed, written and performed in English and Yolngu mata.
