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It’s time to let go of our old identity. Matthew McVickar

June 19, 2012

Australia: moving on up from down under

Eric Tohver, The University of Western Australia

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer small, remote or isolated. It’s time to ask What Is Australia For?, and to acknowledge the wealth of resources we have beyond mining. Currently The Conversation…

How do we conduct research on the big problems so we can contribute to collective well-being? Ed Salkeld

June 18, 2012

Research for the future of Australia

John Armstrong, The University of Melbourne and Carsten Murawski, The University of Melbourne

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer small, remote or isolated. It’s time to ask What Is Australia For?, and to acknowledge the wealth of resources we have beyond mining. Over the next two weeks…

Embracing an Australia that makes things doesn’t mean taking backwards steps. Pizzodisevo/Flickr

June 18, 2012

We can’t compete on cheap and nasty; let’s be a country that makes high-quality, lasting things

Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer small, remote or isolated. It’s time to ask What Is Australia For?, and to acknowledge the wealth of resources we have beyond mining. Over the next two weeks…

Australia could have led the world in assessing projects for their economic, social and environmental impacts, but we lost our nerve. AAP

June 15, 2012

Beyond setting an example: what is Australian environmental policy for?

Ian Lowe, Griffith University

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer small, remote or isolated. It’s time to ask What Is Australia For?, and to acknowledge the wealth of resources we have beyond mining. Over the next two weeks…

Don’t we want to be interesting, relevant, useful, independent and well-informed? Gary Hayes

June 14, 2012

Bush, beach, beer and bayonet - or a grown-up Australia in Asia?

Alison Broinowski, Australian National University

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer small, remote or isolated. It’s time to ask What Is Australia For?, and to acknowledge the wealth of resources we have beyond mining. Over the next two weeks…

Allocating research grants based on past projects and potential profits is immoral – it skews research and damages the academic psyche. URBAN ARTefakte

June 13, 2012

Thinking for money: moral questions for Australian research

Robert Nelson, Monash University

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer small, remote or isolated. It’s time to ask What Is Australia For?, and to acknowledge the wealth of resources we have beyond mining. Over the next two weeks…

In the groundhog daze of globalising suburbia, the idea of a new beginning sounds infernally remote. Melissa Gray

June 12, 2012

Not beyond imagining: songlines for a new world

Brendan Gleeson, The University of Melbourne

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer small, remote or isolated. It’s time to ask What Is Australia For?, and to acknowledge the wealth of resources we have beyond mining. Over the next two weeks…

Australia has to take the initiative if we want to build a relationship with Asia based on the arts. AAP

June 10, 2012

Finding a place on the Asian stage

Alison Carroll, The University of Melbourne and Carrillo Gantner, The University of Melbourne

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer small, remote or isolated. It’s time to ask What Is Australia For?, and to acknowledge the wealth of resources we have beyond mining. Over the next two weeks…

We’ve got it lucky right now, but if we want to stay lucky we need to be realistic about our economic fortunes. AAP

June 7, 2012

Choose your Australian vision: an independent economic leader, or a hole in the ground?

Tapan Sarker, Griffith University

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer small, remote or isolated. It’s time to ask What Is Australia For?, and to acknowledge the wealth of resources we have beyond mining. Over the next two weeks…

Top contributors

Alison Broinowski
Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
Robert Nelson
Associate Director Student Experience, Monash University
Ian Lowe
Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
Carsten Murawski
Associate Professor in the Department of Finance and co-director of the Brain, Mind & Markets Laboratory, The University of Melbourne
Chris Gibson
Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
Eric Tohver
Associate Professor of Geology, The University of Western Australia
John Armstrong
Philosopher, The University of Melbourne
Brendan Gleeson
Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
Carrillo Gantner
Former Chairman, Asialink, The University of Melbourne
Alison Carroll
Senior Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
Tapan Sarker
Professor of Finance at USQ, Griffith University