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Mabo Stamp
Not in anybody's blood
Panel Portraits
Skin Deep
The Traditional Mode of Production of the Australian Aborigine - Review
When is our Day
ART - AUSTRALIAN
Australian Painting to 2001 - Review
Bernard Smith profile
Elizabeth Durack - Obituary
Federation Show - Response
Ian Burn - Review
Jeffrey Smart Retrospective
Juliet Lea - Catalogue essay
Karl Duldig in Australia
Karl Duldig ceramics
Keith Looby - Catalogue essay
Keith Looby - 'Resurrection'
Margaret Preston - Catalogue essay
Nolan on Nolan: Sidney Nolan in his own words - Review
Peter Kingston - Catalogue essay
Peter Lyssiotis - Review
Peter Lyssiotis - Review 2
Peter Townsend
Portraits of Power - Review
Robert Dickerson: Against the Tide - Review
Russel Drysdale Retrospective
Sidney Nolan Retrospective
Sculpture Park in Canberra
Stage Design
Sydney Icons
Tom Roberts - Making Faces
Tom Roberts - Opening of Parliament
The Necessity of Australian Art
ART - INDIGENOUS
Adelaide Festival 2000
Appropriation
Emily
Namatjira
Onus
Water rites
ART - OVERSEAS
Art in the Cold War - Review
Constable at the National Gallery - Review
Genteel Edwardians
Guernica and Picasso
Imagery after Auschwitz
Japonisme in Japan and China - Review
John Berger - an "interview"
Mexican Modernism
M. Monet's feeling for snow
Robert Hughes's 'Goya' - Review
The Arcimboldo Effect - Review
ARTS POLICY
Arms-length funding
Copyright
NGA - 20 years on
NGA - the new director - 2004
Oz film
Radford's Vision
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
1951 - 60th Anniversary
1951 - Timeline
26th January
A New Britannia - The original book + reviews and discussion
A Weird Mob
Aether and Einstein
Alfred Deakin
An Eye for Eternity: The life of Manning Clark - Review
Anzac: A Class Struggle
Arena article on Australian stamps
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australia Day
Australia for kids
Australia's Quarter Acre - Review
Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion - Review
Bert Hill
BHP - Enemy
Boers ALL
Born Free - wage slaves and chattel slaves
Bracegirdle Incident - Forword
Capital in 1913
CIA, Kerr, Barwick and 1975
Clarrie O'Shea - the wisdom of our class
Class Warfare Rhetoric
Conscription
Conscription for War and Profit
Cook's Tour of Discovery
Defending Liberty in Wartime - Dec 1917
Eureka 150
'Fancy Work': The Mass Aesthetic
Forgotten Fascists
Forgotten Fascists pt II - Follow the money
Frederick Thomas Wimble
Graeme Davison - The Unforgiving Minute - Review
Griffiths Moment of Truth
Gold Rush
The Great Depression 1930s - Review
Herbert Hoover down under - Review
Improvising nomads
Japan and Australia
Keith Windschuttle - The White Australia Policy - Review
Ky and 1967
Media Entries
Melbourne Cup broadcast
Menzies had a brother
Menzies Obituary
Mexico Meanjin
Obit for Gough
Pastoral Australia - Review
Pianists
Poisonous Food Industries
POWs Missing in Action
Put Obama into Detention
Real Battle for Australia
Rome and Canberra
Shoot the Bolsheviks! - Essay from 'Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism' v2
Slavery in South Australia
Spanish Flu in Australia
Stiletto Inheritance
Struggles over Settlements - Short version
Struggles over Settlements - Extended footnoted version
The Australian Stamp - Image, Design & Ideology
The bigger lie
The Crag - Review
Trade Wars
Trade War - Class War
Vietnam Elections
Who were the conscriptionists?
Wikileaks Rally - Speech
Whitlam Trifecta
ANZAC
Anzac biscuits
Anzac Days
Cut and Run
Donnelly's Donkey
Howard's Gallipoli
BLF
BLF - DOCUMENTS
Branch Election
Biography of Norm Gallagher
BLF - Documents - BLF-NSW-Defeat
Cummins Report
Further reading
Herbert Passmore - 'No Pay'
Mike Ross - Campaign for permanency
Permanency and Union Hire
Permanency Campaign Verse
QANTAS hole, Sydney, 1970
Subbie? Me? - Never ... well, hardly ever
Thomas Dobeson - 'Unemployed at last!'
Timeline from 'We Built This Country - Builders' Labourers and their Unions'
TLC Brawl
1927 Queensland Strike
1986 de-recognition of the ABCE & BLF in an era of financial deregulation
A Weird Mob
As Tasmanian as apple pie: The 1916 lockout of builders' labourers
Building Owners’ & Managers’ Association
Cover for 'We Built This Country : Builders' Labourers and their Unions' (PDF format)
Fryer
Gillard's Stasi’
ICAC - Again
Improvising nomads
Intimidation
Jack Mundey - a Tribute
Kyneton, 1861
Navvies rocked this city - Canberra 1911 - 16
'Never Powerless' - Lessons for the 21st Century - (PDF format)
Paddy Malone
Vocabulary
William H ‘Bill’ Mellor and the Perth-Fremantle building trades strikes of 1896-97
OHS - Framework of Flesh Summary
OHS - Framework of Flesh
Synopsis
Introduction
Chapter 1 - 19th C: Free for all
Chapter 2 - 1900 - 1950: A hard half-century
Chapter 3 - 1950 - 2000: The harder they fall
Chapter 4 - 21st C: Frameworks for fear
Chapter 5 - Hazardous knacks
Chapter 6 - Occupational Health
Chapter 7 - Amenities
Chapter 8 - Benefits
Chapter 9 - Compensation
Chapter 10 - 'Killing No Murder'
Epilogue - 'High Aims and Aspirations'
Acknowledgements
Reading Lists
Framework of Flesh - Book launch speech - David Peetz
Framework of Flesh - Review - Andrew Alcock
Framework of Flesh - Review - Bill Tully
Framework of Flesh - Review - John Tognolini
Framework of Flesh - Review - Michael Quinlan
Framework of Flesh - Review - Peter Curtis
Framework of Flesh - Review - Steve Grey
Framework of Flesh - Review - Thomas Kilkauer
We Built this Country - Review - Jan Cremers
We Built this Country - Review - Howard Guille
We Built this Country - review - Aidan Moore
We Built this Country - Review - Alison Thorne
CAPITAL
Accounting for capital
Bond Markets
Capital - Insights
Capital - Thing, Process of circulation, Social Relation:
Limits to Harvey III
Capital as capital - correspondence with Bruce McFarlane
Great wall of Debt II
Massiness of Capital :
Limits to Harvey I
Notes on Capital Introduction
Notes on Capital Chapter 4
Notes on Capital Chapter 5
Notes on Capital Chapter 6
Notes on Capital Chapter 33
Valorisation :
Limits to Harvey II
CHINA
Fortune Cookies
Chinese Crackers - 2012-13 Update
COLD WAR AUSTRALIA
DOMESTIC POLICY
1951 - 60th Anniversary
1951 - Timeline
All along the Watchtower - Book launch speech
Arguing the Cold War - Review
Communist Party Ban
Disturbing the status quo
Emmanuel, ASIO and PNG - Document
Kerr's Coup Foretold
Manne on Petrov - Review
Nazis and ASIO
Petrov Commission
FOREIGN POLICY
China on my mind
Cold War - Australian media lies & China
Korean War
Minefield
Not Recognising China
Three Meetings in 1966
COLD WAR OVERSEAS
Blood Track - Review
Brotherhood of the bomb - Review
Dont't Mention the other Wars
Einstein and the FBI - Review
Eric Hobsbawm
Fortune Magazine at 70
Hitchens - Review
How Suharto won power
Japan 1945 - 55
Just another skirmish
Pie in the Sky
Soviet Collapse
Stalin and Linguistics
The end of everything else
Mexico City massacre - 1968
Who paid the piper? - CIA - Review
World Civil War - Talk - Imagining the Real
CONSTITUTION
1901 Elections
Federation, globalisation.environment
GGs
High Court and Sawer's Points
Preamble
Republic and the Arts
Whose Pleasure
CRISIS
BIS Report July 2017
Banking on Bankers
Crying Wolf
Capital at 150 Years
Commission
Financial Drag
Italian Banks
Money Markets
Roll Crises Roll
Royal Commissions
Solidarity Breakfast 9 July 2016
Trump-onomics
V
oices in the Storm
CRITICISM
Critical Creativity - Review
Critical Voices - Words fail Oz - Review
Criticism - The Critic's Curse
Critics Practising - Review
Freud and the Arts
John Berger: an interview
Learning to Look
Nomadland
Only connect
Walter Benjamin - A life in scraps, quotations and fragments
CURRENT POLITICS
Algo
A socialist's republic
Abe and Kishi
Anzac Kapferer
Artificial Intelligence
3cr aug 31 2019
Back to the 30s
Beyond Medicare - Towards Wellness
BIS Annual Report 2014 - Notes
Blackrock
Bust the Budget 2014
Bust the Business Councils Budget 2014
Capitalism: a crock of crooks
Carnarvon Journey
Civilising civilisation
Class Warfare Rhetoric
Colombia
Constant Revolutionising I
Constant Revolutionising II
Crooks on Site
The Devil's party and the god of mammon
Don't let lying dogs sleep
Democracy
Down with all parasites
Dyson
Equal Love
Equality
Evading the Class Struggle
Eureka Day Speech 2013
Eureka Day Dinner Speech 2014
Fascism - If its not Fascism, what is it?
Freedom from their Press
Friendly Neighbourhood Fascist - Shinzo Abe
Foreign workers
Frontier Wars, Class Wars, Imperialist Wars
Healthcare is not a product
Individualism - the threat it poses to individual liberties
In-efficiency dividends
IPA letter on Fukuyama
Judith Wright 100 Years
IWW - then and now
Korea
Let's Reclaim Australia - a poem
Letter to CT - Federation and the British Parliament
Malpractices Commission
Managing Forrest
May Day 2013 Speech
May Day Dinner 2011- Speech
Parliament Trim
Phil Hughes
Pie in the Sky
Poisonous Food Industries
Refugee Rally Speech
Reserve Army
3CR Dec 1 2019
Rhinocerous in the Room
Soft Power: Hard Sell
Tax Reform - Six Modest Proposals
Thatcherism
The 'C' word
3cr Aug 3 2019
Thieves bearing Greeks
Transfield
Uber
3CR 28 Sep 2019
Voices in the Storm
Vexatious correspondence
What is this American democracy crap
When is our Day?
Who Owns Australia?
Wikileaks - Don't let lying dogs sleep
Wikileaks - Wikileaks can help us interpret and change the world
Wikileaks - Wikileaks Rally - Speech
Wikileaks - Yes, Virginia, there are conspiracies
ECONOMICS
21st Century Bug
Child Labour
Chinese Crackers
Chinese Crackers - Update
Depression
Faux Nobels
Fictitious capital
Greed
Malpractices Commission
McValue
Medianomics
Modern Monetary Theory
The Present Danger
Wall Street Journal
ENVIRONMENT
Carbon Futures Market Failure
Flower Power - Review
In Praise of Scepticism
Markets and water - Review
Over-population or over production?
To each its season
Wisdom of the Elders - Review
Unions and the Environment in Qld
EXTERNAL LINKS a page of links to a variety of external sites
FILM
A Refusal to Consume - Piero Paolo Pasolini
A Weird Mob
Amazing Grace and Wilberforce
Birds of Passage
Caravaggio, Frida Kahlo, Caspar David Friedrich
Czech & Slovak Film Festival review
Closure
Ideal Palace
Jedda
John Hughes
Oz film
Peterloo
Potemkin
Premature anti-fascists
Red Flickers
There will be blood
GLOBALISATION
GLOBALISATION - ARTICLES
A Note for Stephen Sewell
ASEAN - Review
Australia: A Client State- Review
China cascade - Review
Chinese Crackers
Chinese Crackers - Update
Herbert Hoover down under - Review
Just another skirmish
Making capitals tick
Military - information complex
The clash of civilisations
The end of everything else
The Great Transformation - Polanyi
Time Conquers Space
What happened in globalisation
HISTORIANS
An Eye for Eternity: The life of Manning Clark - Review
Australia for kids
Batavia's Graveyard - Review
Canberra ... and District
Chaps with maps are no guide
E. P. Thompson - Review
Eric Hobsbawm
Hitler as historical actor
Manning Clark: A Life - Review
Maurice Dobb - Theories of Value and Distribution - Review
Public Intellectuals
Russel Ward - Review
Stalin as historical actor
Suspect History - Review
Taking a strong Stand - from Historians at Work
The bigger lie
The old dead tree and the young tree green - Review
Use and Abuse of history - Review
V. Gordon Childe
V. Gordon Childe Lecture
HISTORY
The New Abolitionists
The Capitalist Revolution
Lepanto Battle
Lepanto Franco and 9-11
March of the women
November 11th
Review of Cambridge History of Capitalism V I
LABOR HISTORY
1955 Labor Split
Afterword to the 1986 edition of A New Britannia
Brookfield - Launch speech
Brookfield - Review
Communism in inter-war Australia - Review
Improvising nomads
Kyneton, 1861
Laborism and Socialism, 1970
Labor's socialist objectives
Labour History - Rickard
Maurice Dobb - Theories of Value and Distribution - Review
Port Adelaide Workers Memorial - Speech
Put Obama into Detention
Radical Brisbane
Rickard - a review of Class and Politics
Struggles over Settlements - Short version
Struggles over Settlements - Extended footnoted version
'The Bloodhouse' - A film about 'The Big Australian', B.H.P.
The State Labor Parties in Australia, 1880 - 1920: Victoria, 1975
Timeline from 'We Built This Country - Builders' Labourers and their Unions'
The Victorian Millers' Union
Whose side are you on?
Wonthaggi
LITERATURE
Literacy and Loonies
Modernist Poetics - Review
Othello - a many-sided tragedy
Shame, Sir Salman, Shame
Tom Wolfe's Atlanta - Man in Full - Review
Will the English - Shakespeare
LITERATURE - AUSTRALIAN
A Weird Mob
Australian Literary Responses to War
C.J.Dennis & The Bloke
Dead Europe - Review
Disturbing the status quo
George Turner - Review
Jim Sharp
Judith Wright 2015
Kenneth Slessor - Review
Learing
Les Murray
Out of Eden - Henry Lawson's life and works - Review
Patrick White
Aunt's Story
Patrick White - Obituary
White Covers
White's Chronochromatic Lens
Place, Colour and Sedition: D. H. Lawrence's 'Kangaroo' - Essay
The Timeless Land - Introduction
Tradition
Ulysses Bound - Review
MARXISM
A Refusal to Consume - Piero Paolo Pasolini
Baillieu trimmed
Bruce Macfarlane - a tribute
Capital Against Capitalism - Conference report
Capital refined
Capital - Word by Word
Das Kapital & Crisis Theory
de Ste Croix and Thesis Eleven
De-valorisation
Dobb review in Labour History
Equal Love
Fictitious capital
Fair Day's pay - no way!
The German Ideology
Hegel's Logic
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism - Review
In Search of Wagner - Review
Marx as a dead dog
Marx wasnt all wrong
Marxism as Modernism - Review
Nationalism
Origin of Family, Private Property and State, The
The Poverty of Philosophy
Plasticity, maths and history
Putting the social into socialism
The Tendency of the Profit Rate to Fall
The 'unreadable' Marx
To be a Dinosaur
Three Lies about Value
Walter Benjamin - A life in scraps, quotations and fragments
Who's Afraid of Volume Two?
MUSIC
Bach Festival 2000
Beethoven after 250 years
Chamber Music
Mozart Letters - Review
Music and Dance companion - Review
MUSIC - AUSTRALIAN
Australian Music - 1930 - 1960 - Review
Glanville Hicks - Review
Grainger Essays - Review
Nick Cave - Review
Peter Allen and Billy Thorpe - Review
Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger - Review
NLA holdings listing
NATIONALISM
Materialism and Nationalism
OPERA REVIEWS
AUSTRALIAN COMPOSITIONS
Batavia
Eureka
Gauguin
Lindy
Love in the age of Therapy
CONTEMPORARY OVERSEAS
Adams
Dead Man Walking
Vermeer
MOZART
Cosi - Queensland
Cosi - Review
Figaro
Mitridate
Mozart Letters - Review
Seraglio
OPERA ESSAYS
24 Hours Magazine
1998 - i
1998 - ii
1999 - i
1999 - ii
2000 - ii
Contemporary Opera
Manon
Nabuccco
Verdi and Vengeance
OPERA NEWS
Fat Lady
Simone Young
OTHER COMPOSERS
Andrea Chernier
Der Freischütz
Dido
Kalman
Kirov in Melbourne 2001
Lady Macbeth
L'Elisir d'Amore
Love for three oranges
Lulu
Merry Widow - 2004
Norma
Orango
Orpheus in the Underworld
Pearl Fishers
The Rake's Progress - Review
RICHARD STRAUSS
Capriccio
Salome
ROSSINI
La Cenerentola
Rossini double bill
VERDI
Nabuccco
Otello
Verdi and Vengeance
WAGNER
Gotterdammerung
In Search of Wagner - Review
Keilberth's 'Ring'
Parsifal
Wagner: Our Contemporary
PERFORMANCE
Adelaide Fringe - 2002
Melbourne Festival - 2003
Melbourne Festival - 2004
Sydney Festival 2004
PHILOSOPHY
A Refusal to Consume - Piero Paolo Pasolini
Aether and Einstein
An implosion of knowledge
Atheism
Beyond Medicare - towards wellness
Darwin, Lincoln and the survival of the slave-masters
Ethics
Greed
Human Dignity
Marx - Nationalism
Mother Mary
National Independence and Socialism
Pascal's wager and euthanasia
Plasticity, maths and history
Professions of Power
Putting the social into socialism
Taking a strong stand - from Historians at Work
Where did correct ideas go?
POLITICAL ECONOMY
Productivity: of what and for whom?
Bankers - views from Australia
Wages
POST-WAR AUSTRALIA
ECONOMICS
The Age of Plastics
Australia: A Client State- Review
Murphy Report
Pop goes the bottler! Soft Drinks, 1945 - 65
Towards a New Australia - Review
Price-fixing - Review
World Car - 1981
MASS MARKET
Biros
Father's Day invented
Selling coffee drinking - Review
POLITICS
11.11.75 - Gough Whitlam
1974 Elections
All along the Watchtower - Book launch speech
Battles for the Coral Sea
Equality - 1972 - Review
Death of George VI - 1951
Disturbing the status quo
Independents
It's not the wife. It's the Party, stupid.
John Winston Howard writes
Melbourne Cup stamp
Menzies Obituary
Opinion Polls
Podger
Politicians and travel expenses - 1953
Queensland: a state of mind
Reforming Bureaucracy
Technocratic Laborism - Review
Tidying up on Timor
SOCIO - CULTURAL
A Weird Mob
Archbishop Gough
Bolton's Post-War - Review
Boyd's Featurism - Essay
Car Wars - Review
Cities in history - Review
Coronation, 1953
Colour
Emile Mercier
"Emoh Ruo"
Jedda
Karl Duldig in Australia
Karl Duldig ceramics
Multiplying Multiculturalism
Peopling Australia - Review
Robin Boyd
Time Magazine Cover Story, 1960
Universities in the 1950s - A. P. Rowe
Water to Gumly-Gumly
SCIENCE
Aether and Einstein
AI and Labour Times - another act
in the class struggle?
Baillieu trimmed
In Praise of Scepticism
Leibnitz Introduced
Leibnitz and the Labyrinth
Men of Flowers - Darwin, Hooker, Mendel
STAMPS
Mabo Stamp
Melbourne Cup Stamp
STANDARDISATION
Standardised Mentalities - Draft Essay
Standardising Modernities - Draft Essay
Standardising Taste - Draft Essay
TOM ROBERTS
"A" Battery Artillery
Allegro con brio
Panel Portraits
Sgt Fraser
Tom Roberts and the Arts of Spain
Tom Roberts: review - Alexander Seeton
Women's Portraits
Writing the Next Biography
WORK
Alienation
ALP Slices the breadline
Automation and time - future of work under capitalism
Bliss - the wisdom of our class -before 1969 and beyond 2019
Breadwinners - Review
Constant Revolutionising - Book Draft 2015
Introduction and Contents
Chapter 1 - The Electronic Whip
Chapter 2 - Communist Mode
Chapter 3 - Debates
Chapter 4 - Booming to Bust
Chapter 5 - Accords
Chapter 6 - De-Valorisation
Chapter 7 - Socialism
Background Material for this book
Dinny McQueen - making of an Australian working man
Gay Work
IR
Jim Sharp - 6 things learnt
Minimum Wages - Review
Murphy Report
Phil Hughes cricketer
Robots and Labour Time
Silicosis
Strike Force 2017
Strike Force 2017 Text version
Struggles over Settlements - Short version
Struggles over Settlements - Extended footnoted version
Ted Riethmuller - some tracks travelled
Tools - letter to Scientific American
Worker Control 1960s - 70s