Portraits of Alfred Deakin and his family

From left to right: Stella, Pattie, Ivy, Alfred, Vera.

Tea caddy

The tea caddy was a present from Alfred and his sister Catherine to their mother Sarah on her silver wedding anniversary on 18 October 1874.

How much should Australians know about Papua New Guinea?

In the last week Papua New Guinea (PNG) has received more exposure in the Australian media than it has for a very long time indeed. Ever since news of the ‘Regional Resettlement Arrangement Between Australia and Papua New Guinea’ agreement between Prime Ministers Rudd and O’Neill appeared on 19 July, discussion and criticism of the so-called ‘PNG Solution’ has been widespread on the internet, on television, radio, and even in the few newspapers still being published. Media outlets which negligently had let their regional coverage slip away – preferring to invest their remaining funds into reportage of last night’s Masterchef – are now scrambling to find copy from anyone with either opinions on the subject, but little knowledge, or some direct knowledge of PNG, alas in short supply.

The avalanche of reporting and commentary has masked the complexity of the issues involved here. On the one hand, we have Australia’s response to boat-borne visa-less immigrants: there is a whole universe of pain tied up in this, as any quick glance at the commentary will demonstrate. On the other, there is Australia and its place in the world and in the region: are we embarrassed to be Australians, or proud to be Aussies who ‘grew here’? And within the region, there is Papua New Guinea.

What can one learn from the reporting of PNG so far in 2013?

An ardent internationalist: Ben Chifley and the new world order

 This thesis traces the evolution of J.B. Chifley as an economic internationalist. It demonstrates that his role in Australian foreign policy in the 1940s has been vastly underestimated. A significant feature of the thesis is the attention paid to Chifley’s speeches in a wide range of political and community forums.

Unidades de entrega e a coordenação na implementação de projetos prioritários

O presente estudo volta-se à análise da atuação das unidades de entrega no contexto da implementação de políticas públicas. Inicialmente, buscamos apresentar como se desenha o cenário da política pública e como as unidades de entrega se inserem nesse contexto, para logo em seguida examinar e comparar três estruturas organizacionais de monitoramento de projetos prioritários diferentes: do PAC - Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento, do governo federal, do Estado de Minas Gerais e da PMDU – Prime Minister´s Delivery Unit, da Inglaterra, com o fim de extrair lições ao adequado funcionamento das Unidades de entrega em geral.