Issue 25 - What Matters? in society and history
Issue 25 Index
It's Time™ is the online e-magazine of the Whitlam Institute.
Coordinating government services for better health: like herding cats? Growing concerns about the delivery of safe and accessible health care in Australia, and the causes and impacts of mental illness, obesity, substance abuse, ageing, road trauma and chronic disease are focusing the attention of government agencies on the effectiveness of their interventions and the coordination of action.
Ivor Indyk and the strange allure of Eucalyptus
Professor Ivor Indyk, the Whitlam Chair in Writing and Society presented his inaugural lecture during the Sydney Writers' Festival. Here he considers relationships between literary and social values in Australia.
What Matters? 2005 Winners Announced
What Matters? Overall Winners William Overs and Chris Summers with UWS Vice Chancellor Prof Jan ReidAround 1,000 students from all across NSW and the ACT entered this year's competition. The 2005 winning entries, presented by the Whitlam Institute within the University of Western Sydney, The Sun-Herald and the Sydney Morning Herald are here:
30th Anniversary Dismissal Souvenir Event Stamp
Spectacular 30th Anniversary Dismissal Souvenir Event Stamp, exclusive to the Whitlam Institute, available for purchase now. Be quick - selling fast!!
Whitlam Institute Schools Program launches new online exhibition
The Whitlam Institute's Schools Program encourages essential values outlined in curriculum frameworks - critical reflection, openness to learning, the benefits of research and showing commitment to the rights and responsibilities of participating in a democracy. Now students of all ages can access our latest resource material on events leading to the constitutional crisis of November 1975 - just 30 years ago this coming November. The Whitlam Institute this month launches a new on-line exhibition on events and issues which remain unresolved to this day. Follow our timeline of events from January to the shattering conclusion on 11 November 1975 of the most extraordinary political and constitution crisis in the history of Australia's Federation.
Bill of Rights - a survey of opinion
There is an emerging view that because of the difficulties, false starts and failures that the Bill of Rights campaign in this country should be abandoned. Lydia McKenzie here surveys the evidence that an Australian Bill of Rights would articulate community values, and improve the government function which is subject to political and arbitrary government action.
E-Collection updates for this month
Seventeen new items were uploaded to the Hon E G Whitlam AC QC e-Collection this month. Read here for records from 1975, the early 1940s and, of course, the update of Mr Whitlam's most recent speeches - including his address on the occasion of Bob Carr's 10th anniversary as Premier of New South Wales.
