Australian Prime Ministers
The musical inspiration behind Paul Keating’s famous 1988 ‘bringing home the bacon’ budget.
Mahler’s Symphony number 8 fires Keating up to deliver his famous “bringing home the bacon” budget. […]
Month: August 2020
Arts & Culture
War and Peace and the influence of ideas
In the greatly privileged role of an interviewer for the National Library ofAustralia’s Old Parliament House political and parliamentary oral history project, I recorded a long interview with Barry Jones, the Australian polymath, politician, science […]
Economics
Alex Millmow on the rise of the professional economist
Alex Millmow on the rise of the professional economist. […]
James Ford Cairns (1914 – 2003)
Gough Whitlam and Jim Cairns, Leaders & Rivals
Two giant figures of their time Gough Whitlam and Jim Cairns arrive in Parliament at roughly the same time. Strangio considers their similarities and differences. […]
James Ford Cairns (1914 – 2003)
Dr Jim Cairns enters Parliament 10 December 1955
The inspirational anti-Vietnam war figure Jim Cairns enters Parliament in 1955… […]
Premiers
John Cain: A willing and able premier, and servant of the state of Victoria
Paul Strangio celebrates John Cain’s immense political legacy and his outstanding personal qualites. […]
Australian Prime Ministers
Bob Hawke: a man of great Labor, and leadership
A poll of experts rates Bob Hawke as Australia’s second most outstanding Prime Minister only narrowly behind John Curtin, the nation’s World War II leader. […]
Ideas
Is it Ideas?
A video teaser on the elements of power and on the relationship between a Prime Minister and Treasurer. […]
Ideas
We’re All Keynesians Now!
James Walter gives Keynes as an example of how the accepted frame of ideas can change, the once unorthodox can become the new status quo. […]
Keynes
Theodore and Keynes’s Treatise on Money
Dr Selwyn Cornish, Reserve Bank historian, linking Australian Treasurer Edward Theodore with Keynes’s Treatise on Money. Cornish is interviewed by Garry Sturgess, assisted by Steve Moxey, cinematographer.