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- Crikey group sub: it's on again by Nicholas Gruen 27/03/2019
- The Guru recipe by Paul Frijters 18/03/2019
- Scaling knowledge: Should our disciplines have mesh or tree-like relation to each other? by Nicholas Gruen 18/03/2019
- Review of Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline: Guest Post from Simon Molloy by Nicholas Gruen 14/03/2019
- French Film Festival by Nicholas Gruen 05/03/2019
- Burnheim on Gray on Hayek by Nicholas Gruen 18/02/2019
- When is a conversation not a conversation? When it's a political conversation. by Nicholas Gruen 18/02/2019
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Category Archives: Democracy
Arise Nicholas Gruen: Economic Rockstar
Yes, it is a little over the top isn’t it? Anyway, here’s Frank’s interview with me last Friday night.
Posted in Democracy, Economics and public policy
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Authoritarianism: GUEST POST by John Burnheim
Arguing with an American ex-Australian now resident in Canada, I contested his view that, of the three countries, America is the least and Australia the most, authoritarian. In part it was a verbal difference. I was taking “authoritarian” in the … Continue reading
The people’s voice: as rage and as healing
There’s a spectre haunting Europe … and the rest of the Western world. We have elaborate ‘diversity’ programs in good upper-middle-class places to prevent discrimination against all manner of minorities (and majorities like women). It’s a fine thing. But there’s a … Continue reading
Centrist strategic voting
This is my response to Peter Dempster’s proposals. I can see one important merit of them. Electoral politics is inherently polarising because electoral politics involves politicians beating other politicians to qualify to be politicians in the first place – by getting into … Continue reading
The Rise of China and dealing with American grief.
Like the world today, Europe in the 19th century witnessed major shifts in the balance of power, with new technologies changing how life was lived. Otto von Bismarck, a Prussian, saw opportunities in that chaos. He unified the warring German … Continue reading
PETER DEMPSTER: A strategic voting proposal in defence of centrism
Well folks, as you know, Club Troppo is the only website east of the whole damn Murray Darling system that has the reputation to attract the kind of high quality debate we’re in for tonight. So everyone, in your best ClupPony … Continue reading
PATRICIA EDGAR. The Circus that has been Government Policy on the ABC for Forty Years
Cross-posted from John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations. The ABC has been an extraordinarily resilient organisation. It has withstood management and Board upheavals, survived remorseless budget cuts and harassment. But the current attacks on staff and on its role are as … Continue reading
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