2012

Fairfax and Finkelstein

The Finkelstein Report earlier this year: In considering the current state of the press in Australia, the Inquiry has given considerations to not only the submissions received but also to an extensive range of other local and international evidence. From this information the Inquiry has concluded that, despite the intense pressures facing it, the Australian …

Leading indicators

The central problem taken up by the body of scholarship reviewed in this Kevin Drum post is not lead poisoning. It is order. Nevin’s 2000 paper defines a preoccupation with public order (whose absence is registered as violent crime) and private or domestic order (whose absence is detected in the form of unwed marriage conception). …