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.)


3rd February 2012

BRINGING WAR TO OUR BACK YARD – IMPLICATIONS OF THE AUSTRALIA- US ALLIANCE

Dr Hannah Middleton, Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition; Dr Michael McKinley, Strategic Studies ANU


10th February 2012

EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS – CASCADING GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES

Satyajit Das, author Extreme Money; Martijn Konings, Political Economy, Sydney University


17th February 2012

THE AUSTRALIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM – WHAT IS THE REAL SCORECARD OF THE GILLARD GOVERNMENT?

Prof John Dwyer, Emeritus Professor Medicine, Founder Healthcare Reform Alliance; Dr Con Costa, Doctors Reform Society


24th February 2012

THE GLOBAL OCCUPY MOVEMENT – COMBATING GREED, HOPING FOR JUSTICE

Mark Goodkamp, Occupy spokesperson & organiser; Michael Kozio, freelance journalist


2nd March 2012

PEOPLE SMUGGLERS & HUMAN RIGHTS: INDONESIAN CHILDREN IMPRISONED, INDONESIAN FISHING PEOPLE SCAPEGOATED

John Dowd AO, International Commission of Jurists; Edwina Lloyd, Human Rights Lawyer


9th March 2012

ABORIGINAL WELFARE REFORM UNDER THE GILLARD GOVERNMENT – HOUSING, HEALTH EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT – THE REAL RESULTS

Paul Pholeros, Director Health Habitat; Warren Mundine, Chair, Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce


16th March 2012

EXTRAORDINARY ABUSE OF ASIO POWERS – SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE POWERS DENYING BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS TO REFUGESS AND LONGTERM AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTS

Stephen Blanks, Secretary, NSW Council of Civil Liberties; Dr Clinton Fernandez, Political Program UNSW Canberra



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