Friday 6pm to 7.45pm


Our upcoming talks are shown below ...

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


3rd of September 2010

HOMELESSNESS - THE SCANDAL Of UNFULFILLED PROMISES

Hazel Blunden, Housing Policy Officer for the Greens; Daniel Petsalis, Homeless Support Services Mission Australia


10th of September 2010

CLIMATE CHANGE – EFFECTIVE RESPONSE TO THIS ERA OF DELAYERS

John Connor, CEO Climate Institute; Geoff Evans, Mineral Policy Institute


17th of September 2010

HEALTH CARE REFORM – WHAT WILL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DELIVER?

John Dwyer, Emeritus Prof. Medicine, UNSW, Founder Australian Health Care Reform Alliance; Dr. Con Costa, National V.P. Doctors Reform Society


24th of September 2010

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM

Associate Prof. Brendan O’Connor, U.S. Studies Centre, Uni. of Sydney; Dr. Lloyd Cox, lecturer Macquarie Uni.


1st of October 2010

NO MEETING

Long weekend


8th of October 2010

AFGHANISTAN - FOR PITY’S SAKE BRING THE TROOPS HOME!

Phil Glendenning, Director Edmund Rice Centre; Patricia Garcia, Act For Peace, Int. Programs Director Nat. Council Churches


15th of October 2010

TIBET – THE STRUGGLE FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL

Screening of part of film Tibet- Murder in the Snow, Mr. Jigme, President of the Tibetan Community; Tenpa Dugdak from Tibet Effect



Current issues

The recent topic: "The global financial crisis: responding to the financial meltdown. A new deal?" has a paper from Frank Stilwell available. Click below to download: "Financial Crisis, Recession and Remedies"

The recent topic: "Garnaut vs Rudd's green paper - lobbying wins over climate science?'" has some useful follow-up material by Dr Mark Diesendorf, one of the speakers. Click below to download: "The Base Load Fallacy"and "Myths, Fallacies and 'Spin' About Greenhouse Solutions" and "Greenhouse Solutions Need Effective Government Policies"


Historian Humphrey McQueen, a regular speaker at Politics in the Pub, has just released the first volume of his history of the BLF. It deals with OH&S and is called "A Framework of Flesh". The website for this book is here.


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