Opinion
We’ve come a long way on gender diversity but what about class?
In 2021, the coach of the Perth-based West Coast Eagles Australian rules football team said recruits who attended public schools and came from single-parent families are too costly to manage off-field and the club might be better off concentrating on private school boys from stable families. His comments came a year after a
How privileged school students avoided the Covid-19 lockdown
Clive Hamilton & Myra Hamilton In the game of privilege, we are all complicit. And if we are to write about privilege, we should declare our own. We have had many advantages in life. We are both white, well-educated and well-paid, and we hail from culturally, although not materially, rich
Blaming Baby Boomers for your money woes is unfair, lazy and wrong
Clive Hamilton & Myra Hamilton [Published in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, 27 November 2023] Judging by the relentless tide of baby boomer bashing, it’s become a crime to be born in the 15 years after World War Two. On Saturday, the lead story in the Herald berated
Wake up, lefties, and reject wokeness
Clive Hamilton It’s time the left pushed back against woke. Afraid of being branded a racist, misogynist or transphobe, the left has been browbeaten into silence by woke activists, even though the left enabled the modern movements for black rights, gay rights and feminism. Left politics are about capitalism’s structural
Open source research is fine. Just don’t do it for foreign spies
Clive Hamilton The worlds of research and foreign intrigue collided recently in the case of Alexander Csergo, a business consultant arrested in April under Australia’s foreign interference laws. According to the police, Csergo was recruited by two Chinese intelligence agents to write reports about Australia’s defence, economic and national security
Are we in a Cold War with China?
Clive Hamilton It is remarkable how entrenched Cold War thinking is, even among those, like the editorial board of the New York Times, who warn against ‘glib invocations of the Cold War’ in United States policy towards China. Like a number of others pushing back against bi-partisan efforts to limit
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Mr Albanese is welcoming this as great news and implicitly a victory for his diplomacy. But the ban was a piece of Beijing’s economic blackmail and punishment. Albanese should say “It’s about time China stopped its outrageous behaviour.”
"The student movement of the late 1960s was among other things a prophetic critique of today’s brutally philistine universities, self-avowed service stations for the capitalist economy."
Terry Eagleton in the London Review of Books, 10 October 2024 edition
More scams. Hey people, stop being greedy. Just put your savings into a good super fund and forget about it. https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104346234
Another example of what we describe in our book, The Privileged Few @CliveCHamilton
"The gap between sporting facilities available to children from families of modest means and those from wealthy families is widening..."