The musical inspiration behind Paul Keating’s famous 1988 ‘bringing home the bacon’ budget.

Barry Jones recounts a conversation with Keating about the 1988 Budget

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 [...]...
Think big in small moments: A sociologist inspired by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Emeritus Professor Dorothy Broom is an acute observer and a teller of emblematic stories in which the personal and professional are powerfully fused. [...]...