In Australia’s economic history, there always been tension between Labor and the Banks. My grandfather was an adviser to wartime Labor Treasurer and Prime Minister, Joseph Benedict Chifley, better known as ‘Ben’, in the 1940s. Grandpa thought Chifley was a magnificent Prime Minister until he went too far with Bank nationalization, which together with petrol […]
Entries from April 19th, 2012
Never mind the miners, here’s the bankers
April 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Publications
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Australian unis pulse with a samba beat
April 15th, 2012 · No Comments · Publications
When I went to the University of Adelaide, I received a stroke of luck. Under the Colombo plan, which enabled south-east Asian students get scholarships to Australian universities, the grand old man of Singapore,Lee Kuan Yew, sent a number of very bright Singaporean students, who were meant to go to Oxford to study nuclear physics, […]
From Rio to Freo – The Airport Economists hits the samba trail in Brazil
April 11th, 2012 · No Comments · Publications
Out of Africa…..and back in.
April 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Publications
Reporting from Cape Town, South Africa When South Africa emerged from the apartheid era in the mid-1990s it was a common plea for the world not to forget Africa simply because the apartheid battle had been seen to be won. Back then, “not forgetting Africa” had an international aid connotation, strongly associated with events such […]
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