Think tanks

Australia 2020 - thinking glib

North Coast Voices - April 21, 2008 - 4:14am

The Australia 2020 summit logo - something else Rudders asserts he owns.

The right-wing blur

Andrew Norton - April 9, 2008 - 9:10am

For many commentators, the political right is just a blur. The various labels - conservative, neoliberal, neoconservative, New Right, economic rationalist - are thrown around according to fashion as much as meaning. Six years ago (pdf) I wrote an article on how ‘New Right’ was largely squeezed out by ‘economic rationalism’, which in turn was being challenged by ‘neoliberalism’, now the favourite. Read more »

Per Capita at one

Andrew Norton - April 11, 2008 - 2:28pm

The ‘progressive’ think-tank Per Capita was launched a year ago today. It’s off to a fairly slow start. Many blogs which are mainly hobbies for their contributor(s), including this one, have produced far material in the last twelve months than has Per Capita. And most of what Per Capita has produced are newspaper opinion pieces, which take only slightly longer than a substantive blog post to write. Read more »