Australian History and Current Events

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Articles:

Australian Anti-Terror Raids: A Serious Plot Thwarted
Published: 02/12/2005. By Trevor Stanley.
Article published in Jamestown Foundation's Terrorism Monitor.

Al-Qaeda in Australia
Published: 07/10/2005. By Trevor Stanley.
Article published in Jamestown Foundation's Terrorism Monitor.

The Democratic Labor Party: An Oral History
Uploaded: 19/07/2003; interview conducted in April 2003. By David Bennett.
The transcript of an interview conducted with Jack Lloyd and Chris Curtis, former activists for the Democratic Labor Party. The DLP was an integral part of Australian politics, playing an important part in the development of the current party system, and also in the longevity of the Liberal/Coalition Governments both Federally and in Victoria. The DLP was in existence from 1954 to 1978.

Pay More, Get Less: The truth about executive salaries
Uploaded: 11/07/2003. By Gerald Mercer.
A recent study has found an inverse relation between executive salaries and company performance. Gerald Mercer, Editor of Social Action, explains.

Discord in the Democrats
Uploaded: 01/09/2002. By David Bennett.
The crisis in the Australian Democrats is best understood as a clash between their original conception of democracy and the current methods of running the party. David Bennett explains this incongruity by outlining the history behind it.

Talks:

A Few Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Geneva Conventions - talk by Ted Lapkin, 27th October 2004.

A History of Labor Splits.
The edited text of a talk delivered on 23rd July 2003 by Mr Robert Murray, the author of The Split: Australian Labor in the Fifties.

Lessons from the Iraq War
A PWHCE talk delivered on 29th April 2003 by Michael O'Connor AM, the Executive Director of the Australia Defence Association.
In this talk, the last before Mr O'Connor's retirement, the implications of the war for australian defence were examined.


The Nine Lives of Frank Knopfelmacher
Uploaded: 24/09/2002. By Andrew Knopfelmacher.
Andrew Knopfelmacher delivered a talk on the topic of his father, Dr Frank Knopfelmacher, one of the most important intellectuals of Australian postwar history, in Melbourne on the 21st March 2002.




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