WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE
NEW INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP
Series 2/2003 March - May 2003
6.30 p.m. at New International Bookshop
Trades Hall, Victoria Street, Carlton.
Members $5 Others $6 Concession $2
Events are presented by a consortium comprising the Australian Fabian
Society (Vic); the New International Bookshop Co-operative; Arena
Publications; Overland Publications; the Australian Society for the
Study of Labour History Inc. (Melbourne Branch); the Swinburne Institute
for Social Research; and the Don Dunstan Foundation (Vic).
Date Sponsor Topic & Speaker(s)
Wed. 2 April AFS Undemocratic Schooling. Melbourne University
Associate
Professor and 2002 Woodward Medal winner, Richard Teese
follows up his memorable 2001 AFS education conference
address with a compelling account of entrenched
educational disadvantage and social inequality.
Wed. 9 April AFS Iraq and After: Regional Implications for
Australia.
Monash University Senior Lecturer in Asian Politics,
Dr Joan Grant discusses regional reactions to the Iraq
crisis and their significance for Australia.
Wed. 16 April NIB Australia's Welfare Wars. Philip Mendes,
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy & Community Development
at Monash
University, draws on his new book to mount a case for the relevance
of social democratic ideals in the welfare sector.
Wed. 23 April NIB Ned Kelly Rides Again. Ian Jones, the pre-
eminent expert on the Kelly Gang, talks about the rise
and rise of
the last outlaw.
Wed. 30 April ASSLH Not Before Time: The Triumph of Victorian
Legislative Council Reform. Victorian Finance Minister
John
Lenders and Monash University Politics Professor Brian
Costar
analyse Steve Bracks' radical upper house reforms and
their
significance for Victoria.
Wed. 7 May AFS Partnerships at Work: the Challenge of Employee
Democracy. Workplace relations panellists led by Labor
Essays editor Glen Patmore launch and discuss a new
addition to the annual AFS Labor Essays series.
Wed. 14 May AFS A Federation of Regions. Former Hawke government
Minister Chris Hurford proposes radical reforms to the
fraught fabric of Australian federalism.
Wed. 21 May AFS What Next for Labor, Social Democracy and the Left?
Labor Deputy Leader Jenny Macklin returns to the AFS
lectern with a further progress report on her ALP policy
review.
Wed. 28 May AFS Privatisations and What to Make of Them. Monash
Law
Professor Graham Hodge discusses the why and how of privatisation
evaluation.
Wed. 4 June NIB Student Radicalism Then and Now. Graham
Hastings,
Research Officer for the National Union of Students,
leads a launch
and panel discussion of his new history of Australian student
radicalism.
Wed. 11 June Overland Broken Song. Journalist and author Barry
Hill, discusses his massive new biography of T. G.
Strehlow who
collected the songs, genealogies and sacred artefacts of the Arrernte
people.
Wed. 18 June AFS/DRS Saving the Pharmaceutical Benefits
Scheme, Fighting the Pharmaceutical Marketing Dollar. La
Trobe
University Senior Lecturer Dr Ken Harvey talks about threats
to the PBS.
Wed. 25 June Overland Margaret Simons delivers the second 2003
Overland Lecture on the Hindmarsh Island Affair and its
repercussions for indigenous Australians.
For further information on any of the above events call the New
International Bookshop on 03 9662 3744.
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