Friday 6pm to 7.45pm


Our upcoming talks are shown below ...

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


12th of March 2010

AFGHANISTAN: SHOULD AUSTRALIA WITHDRAW?

Phil Glendenning, Director, Edmund Rice Centre; Bob Howard, University of Sydney.


19th of March 2010

HOSPITALS CAN KILL: EVALUATING PRIVATE & PUBLIC HOSPITAL CARE.

Paul Dugdale, Assoc. Prof. Public Health ANU; David Hirsch, Barrister. Specialist Medical Negligence Litigation.


26th of March 2010

THE NEW NUCLEAR DEBATE.

Senator Scott Ludlam, Greens WA; Bob Howard, Dept. Govt.& Int. Relations, Sydney Uni.


2nd of April 2010

NO MEETING

Easter long weekend


9th of April 2010

POLITICS OF DISABILITY: WHAT SHOULD RUDD DELIVER?

Bill Shorten, Federal MP, Parliamentary Sec. Disability & Children's Services; Rhonda Galbally, OA, Chair, National Disability Advisory Council, author, Just Passions.


16th of April 2010

WAR CRIMES IN SRI LANKA – WHAT OUTCOMES?

Dr Sam Pari; Tamil Youth Organiser; Brami Jegan, Co-ordinator Sri Lanka Project, CPACS & Sydney Uni.


23rd of April 2010

NO MEETING

Anzac Day long weekend



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