In Defence of Multilateralism
Is multilateralism back on the Australian government’s agenda? What implications could this have for international security and stability and Australian democracy? CPD fellow James Arvanitakis and Amy Tyler examine multilateralism in a post-September 11...
Time to confront our citizenship deficit
Before we can reinvigorate Australian democracy we need to understand why citizens become disengaged, writes James Arvanitakis.
Maralinga 50 years on: ignoring the lessons of history
James Arvanitakis revisits a darkness at the heart of Australia’s past.
Reclaiming the Australian Commons
Australian state and federal governments may still be in love with privatisation, writes James Arvanitakis, but for Australian communities the relationship is getting cold. In ‘Reclaiming the Australian Commons’, Arvanitakis charts the enclosure of...
Time to stop ‘social engineering’ and teach the ‘truth’
Education should reflect the diversity of real life, says James Arvanitakis, and child-care centres are no exception. Noisy moralists should not impose their blind-spots on the rest of society by excluding books that feature...
Education as a commons: why we should all share in the picnic of knowledge
James Arvanitakis argues that education vouchers would result in a stratified school system, more focused on marketing to parents than providing quality education to students. Rather than answering the problems caused by partial commercialisation...
Those who gain the most should carry some of the weight
James Arvanitakis writes that companies who benefit from selling junk food to kids should also contribute to the costs of dealing with obesity. He proposes a tax on advertising to children, to be put...
Resource riches can be an economic curse
The outlook for the Australian economy beyond the short term is, we believe, cause for concern. James Arvanitakis and Lee Rhiannon discuss this country’s reliance on the volatile resources sector as the engine of...