(2025) What Australia Must Do Now to Combat Antisemitism

Article published on-line in the Australian Financial Review on 15 December and inprint on 17 December 2025, p. 31, https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/what-australia-must-do-now-to-confront-antisemitism-20251215-p5nnpb Australians are proud of our social cohesion, respect for each other, and multiculturalism. No longer are Jews and Catholics banned from certain clubs and workplaces as they were fifty years ago. As for Muslims and Hindus, whatever our…

(2023) ‘In the weeds, in the game’. A Searching History of Macquarie Bank  

Review of Joyce Moullakis’ and Chris Wright’s The Millionaires’ Factory: The Inside Story of How Macquarie Became a Global Giant, Allen & Unwin, Australian Book Review, No. 453, May 2023, pp. 18-20.  Respected, not always loved, Macquarie is an exceptional “Australian and global financial success story”. So says Steve Harker, a rival investment banker from…

Illustration by David Levine, published in the 2 May 1974 issue of the New York Review of Books, accompanying Peter Singer’s review of Magee’s Popper book.

(1976) An Examination of Sir Karl Popper’s Political Philosophy with Reference to Popper’s Exposition and Critique of Marxism

TABLE OF CONTENTS SYNOPSIS CHAPTER 1: EPISTEMOLOGY AND POLITICS CHAPTER 2: POPPER’S EXAMINATION OF HISTORICISM CHAPTER 3: POPPER’S CRITIQUE OF THE HISTORICIST DOCTRINE OF POLITICS CHAPTER 4: POPPER’S EXPOSITION AND CRITIQUE OF MARXISM CHAPTER 5: WHAT IS LIVING AND WHAT IS DEAD IN POPPER’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY   SYNOPSIS This thesis provides a critical exegesis…