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Cabinet papers 2005: WorkChoices, Afghanistan and climate change take centre stage

In 2005, the Howard government introduced its controversial WorkChoices legislation. It would be a key factor in the government’s defeat in the 2007...

yesterday 5

The Conversation

David Lee

The Australia Group at 40

24.07.2025 5

Pearls and Irritations

David Lee

Trump’s budget and the 21st century great divergence

08.07.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

David Lee

The Racial Discrimination Act at 50

09.05.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

David Lee

Gove and the native title revolution

27.03.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

David Lee

Trump’s election supports the case for a Department of Trade and Resources

The geopolitical danger in which Australia finds itself after the election of Donald Trump reinforces an argument made by Paul Barrett. His was to...

19.11.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

David Lee

Path not taken: the Petroleum and Minerals Authority at fifty

Speaking recently on the ABC, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz claimed that Australia was “giving away its natural resources”. This he...

29.08.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

David Lee

Australia should promote authentic ‘collective security’ in the Indo-Pacific

In a recent article for the Washington Post on the militarisation of Australia’s north, the Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, said: “We’re...

27.08.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

David Lee