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Loretta Lockesmith
Sep 11, 20199 min read
Limits to what employees can say
To what extent should an employer be able to control the pubic expression of its staffs' political and religious beliefs?
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Loretta Lockesmith
Sep 4, 20197 min read
Exploitation or Opportunity?
The other day I met my old friends Marcia and Ann for lunch at Babka in Brunswick Street. It was good to catch up again. Babka is just a...
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Loretta Lockesmith
Aug 30, 20195 min read
Get Your Hands Out of My Knickers
What is the best way to handle sexual harassment? What advice would you give your daughter or granddaughter? I get on really well with...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
Aug 10, 20188 min read
Have We Lost Our Moral Compass?
Kenneth Haynes' enquiry into the finance industry has exposed troubling ethical behaviour among those we expected should know better. But...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
Feb 21, 20189 min read
A Novel Biography of George Orwell
I read Dennis Glover’s The Last Man in Europe. Then I read Orwell's 1984 again. Then I re-read The Last Man in Europe. I appreciated it...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
Dec 18, 20175 min read
The Tyranny of the Majority
The high turnout and overwhelmingly positive result of Australia’s voluntary postal plebiscite on same sex marriage enabled our...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
Dec 1, 20172 min read
The tragedy of the commons
John Gapper, in an opinion piece, in The Australian Financial Review on Friday, 1 December 2017, “Facebook’s fight for the common...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
Nov 2, 20176 min read
Minimum Wage Keeps Youth Unemployed
In the spirit of the famous Harvester case, ACTU secretary Sally McManus is proposing an overhaul of the national minimum wage to better...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
Oct 4, 20172 min read
Seminar on Libertarian Philosophy
I have developed a seminar to explain libertarian philosophy to a lay audience. The course draws on the work of Locke, Smith, Mises,...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
Sep 4, 20171 min read
Tolerance in a Pluralist Society
I think we should give credit to GetUp! for having the courage to withdraw its support from the petition seeking the deregistration of Dr...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
Aug 31, 20177 min read
The Rape Culture in Australian Universities
Imagine you are the Vice Chancellor of an Australian University, an extremely demanding job. You are approached by the Australian Human...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
Aug 15, 20172 min read
Striving for Perfection
On a recent visit to Dubrovnik, Jill and I chanced upon a fish restaurant in the Old Port area – Riblji Restoran Proto. It was a...
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