Friday 6pm to 7.45pm


Our upcoming talks are shown below ...

(To view full program, see Current Program link to the left.)

(To view the most recent program, see Current Program link to the left.)


18th May 2012

SWAN'S BUDGET SURPLUS- WHAT SOCIAL COSTS?

Richard Denniss, Australia Institute; Peter Davidson, ACOSS.


25th May 2012

QUEENSLAND'S LABOR WIPE-OUT - CAUSE & NATIONAL CONSEQUENCES

Luke Foley M.L.C, Leader ALP NSW Legislative Council; Sally McManus, Secretary Austalian Services Union( NSW & ACT)


1st June 2012

SYRIA - THE DILEMMA OF INTERVENTION

Prof Ahmed Shboul, Department of Arab & Semitic Studies Sydney Uni; Dr. Nijmeh Hajjar Chair of same department ( latter to be confirmed)


8th June 2012

NO MEETING

Holiday Weekend


15th June 2012

RESERVE BANK - IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, OR THE PRIVATE INTEREST, OR THEIRS?

Joe Nagy Finance & Economic Coach; Michael Janda, ABC


22nd June 2012

AUSTRALIAN POLICE CULTURE - TASERS, GUNS, DEATHS

Dr. Michael Kennedy, Head of Policing Policy Programme, UWS; Cameron Murphy, President Council Civil Liberties


29th June 2012

ISRAEL & IRAN - WARMONGERING, NUCLEAR THREATS & HYPOCRISY

Dr. Noah Bassil, Macquarie Uni; Antony Loewenstein, freelance journalist, author My Israel Question



Current issues and recent presentations

The recent topic on unemployment benefits has a paper from Peter Whiteford available. Click below to download: "Falling behind - Australia's meagre unemployment benefits"


The recent topic: "Aboriginal Welfare Reform under the Gillard Government - Housing, Health, Education, Employment - The Real Results" has some useful links below.

Here you will find some very important and readable material on Aboriginal housing, health, employment and education and their inter-relationship by one of the speakers Paul Pheleros AM, architect and Director of Healthabitat, a not for profit organisation working with remote indigenous communities building inexpensive, healthy, durable housing.

Available at www.healthabitat.com and www.healthabitat.com/big-issues/a-working-shower-in-2017

The recent topic: "Bringing War to Our Back Yard - Implications of the Australia - US Alliance" has a paper from Hannah Middleton available. Click below to download: "Bringing War to Our Doorstep"


The recent topic: "European debt crisis - cascading global consequences" has several papers from Satyajit Das available, as well as a paper from Martijn Konings. Click below to download: Das: Europe's road to nowhere Das: Australia - Southern province of China Das: US is still the problem Konings: The European Debt Crisis


Some useful links ...

ACOSS

ACTU

ACTU: Your rights at work

Australian Policy Online

Friends of the Earth Australia

Getup! Action for Australia

Gleebooks

Greenpeace International

Institute for Global Communications: links to Peace, Women?s, Ecology and Anti-Racism sites

Journal of Australian Political Economy

LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net

New Matilda

Now We the People

Save Our Springwood

Search Foundation

Sydney Peace and Justice Coalition

Sydney Peace Foundation

Sydney Talks: who is talking where this month

Unions NSW: with you at work

Victorian Peace Network

Women for Wik