Friday 6pm to 7.45pm


3rd of October 2008

AUSTRALIA IN ASIA - THE SEARCH FOR AN INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY

Hamish McDonald, Foreign Affairs Editor, Sydney Morning Herald Jake Lynch, Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Sydney University


10th of October 2008

SARTOR’S ASSAULT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT - THE POLITICAL AND HUMAN COST

Genia McAffrey, President Local Government Association, Mayor North Sydney Sylvia Hale, Greens MLC


17th of October 2008

ISRAEL & IRAN - WAR OR DIALOGUE

Antony Lowenstein, Author My Israel Question Dr. Noah Bassil, Director, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Macquarie University


24th of October 2008

THE POLITICS OF MENTAL HEALTH

Professor Ian Hickie, Director, Brain/Mind Institute, Sydney University Sebastian Rosenberg, Deputy Director, Mental Health Council


31st of October 2008

POLITICS OF CHILD NEGLECT

Denise Lynch, Lecturer, Soical Work, Sydney University Maree Walk, Executive Director, NSW Benevolent Society


7th of November 2008

POLITICS OF OIL

Diarmuid Maguire, Dept. Government & International Relations, Sydney University Professor Stuart White, Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS


14th of November 2008

POLITICS OF MEDIA REGULATION - WHAT SHOULD THE RUDD GOVERNMENT BE DOING?

Professor Michael Pusey, Sociology, University of New South Wales


21st of November 2008

SUMMER RECESS
Politics in the Pub will resume early in the new year.


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Current issues

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". Humphrey has released this volume to the public at no cost and it is now available at his website. Click here to read it.


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