Opinion
In search of sustainability
THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE Speech at the launch of In search of sustainability edited by Jenny Goldie, Bob Douglas and Bryan Furnass NSW Parliament House, Sydney 18 January 2005 Clive Hamilton1 It’s a pleasure to be here to help launch this new book on sustainability. I think its publication provides an
Climate Change Policy in Australia
Isolating the Great Southern Land National Institute for Environment Public Lecture Manning Clark Centre, ANU 1st September 2004 Clive Hamilton Executive Director The Australia Institute1 The debate about the implications of climate change is spreading to new areas. Most recently attention has focussed on the security implications of global climate
Money, Marketing and the Innocence of Youth
Address to the Annual Conference of the Teachers of English, Sydney, 4th July 2004 Clive Hamilton Executive Director The Australia Institute The dominant cultural force today is that of materialism and the marketing society that goes with it. Children grow up in a dense fog of commercial messages which form
Saints or Communists?
Non-government organisations in Australia Address to the Communities in Control Conference Melbourne, 7th June 2004 Clive Hamilton Executive Director The Australia Institute1 “When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” …..Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop
Consumer capitalism
Is this as good as it gets? 15th Maurice Blackburn Oration Coburg Town Hall 25th February 2004 Clive Hamilton Executive Director, The Australia Institute Until recently, there has never been a time in human history when each of us could hope to live a truly fulfilling life. From the earliest
Sacrificing Democracy for Growth
The Reid Oration, University of Western Australia 29th July 2003 Clive Hamilton Executive Director, The Australia Institute At a news conference soon after he became Prime Minister in 1996 John Howard said that the measure of success or failure of his government will be whether or not he can achieve
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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..."