Counterpoint

November 2008

Monday 17

• Obama & Tax
• The winner's curse
• Music: hard to handle
• Regulating carbon emissions
• Do humans have a future?

Monday 10

• Terrorism
• Economic gangsters
• Music-St. Louis Blues
• Patrick Cook
• Charles Moore
• Music : Sweet Home Chicago

Monday 03

• George W Bush reconsidered
• Future of Capitalism - John Stone
• War of the worlds
• The little black school book

October 2008

Monday 27

• Off-shoring
• Future of Capitalism part 2 : Mike Moore
• Music: The way you look tonight
• Music: Watermelon Man
• Housing, banking and the free market

Monday 20

• The future of capitalism: part 1
• Climate science
• Music: Foot tapper
• The long tail
• Primaries

Monday 13

• Executive pay
• Migration and Clustering
• Music
• Conservation hunting
• Literacy and the Internet

Monday 06

• Contractors
• Bagpipes
• Music: Someday we'll meet again
• Soldiers

September 2008

Monday 29

• Free markets and regulation
• The US divided as never before?
• Music: Samba Dees Days
• Australian colonial history
• Computer models

Monday 22

• Spies
• Patrick Cook
• Music: St Louis Blues
• Short selling
• The property bubble

Monday 15

• John McCain - maverick ?
• State politicans
• Music: Summertime
• Infrastructure and super funds
• Nappies

Monday 08

• Sarah Palin
• Lamarck and evolution
• Music: The Shadows
• Carbon and forests

Monday 01

• A new story for Black America
• The Gridlock Economy
• Music:Goody Goody
• Political narrative

August 2008

Monday 25

• US declinism
• Music: Back in the USA
• Traffic calming
• James Delingpole

Monday 18

• Parliamentarian of the year: mid-year review
• Music: Exactly like you
• Trouble with Theory
• Russia

Monday 11

• Confessions of a subprime lender
• Damage control
• Patrick Cook: Olympic moments
• Stuff that White People Like

Monday 04

• Hiroshima
• Frank Furedi
• Music: Buddy Stay off the Wine
• Food, culinary culture and conservatism

July 2008

Monday 28

• Carbon policy
• Tariffs
• Music: Champagne and Reefer
• Population and environment

Monday 21

• US election: the Republicans
• The Pirate's Dilemma
• Music : Cow Cow Boogie
• Myth of multitasking

Monday 14

• Bill of Rights
• US gun laws
• Music: The Man with the Golden Arm
• Food: local or global?

Monday 07

• Political jargon and plain English
• The Murray-Darling Basin
• Music: This Train
• Patrick Cook
• Economic cycles

June 2008

Monday 30

• Evangelical influence: myth and reality
• Crime, race and literature

Monday 23

• Are markets moral?
• Older people and fun
• Patrick Cook
• Music: A hundred years from today
• Piano

Monday 16

• Progress
• The 1950s
• Music: Peter Gunn
• Literary criticism

Monday 09

• Peter Saunders

Monday 02

• Bill of Rights
• Fish
• Smoking

May 2008

Monday 26

• The history of technology and innovation
• Music: I want to be happy
• Indigenous education
• Enid Blyton revisited

Monday 19

• Energy
• Museums
• Music: Route 66 theme
• The changing nature of Australian society

Monday 12

• The individual, the state and civil society
• Hunting
• Music: It's only a paper moon
• Which school ?

Monday 05

• The next Christendom
• Music:The Nervous beat
• Sex at the margins
• Boris Johnson
• Ribbon culture

April 2008

Monday 28

• Islam and democracy
• Body parts
• Music: Fifty-Fifty Blues
• New Zealand economy

Monday 21

• The Australian car industry: do we need one ?
• Innovation
• Music: The rise and fall of flingel bunt
• Anthropology

Monday 14

• Guns
• Cities
• Music: I've got you under my skin
• Political expenditure laws

Monday 07

• Anti - Planning
• The second world
• Music: Cosmic Rays
• Interacting with your ABC

March 2008

Monday 31

• Regulation
• Daylight saving
• Music : Evenin'
• Your inner economist

Monday 24

• The downside of the internet
• Prejudice
• Music: Sweetest Smile and the Funkiest Style
• Expert opinion

Monday 17

• Deliberative democracy
• Diet
• Climate change
• Music: My Sweet Hunk O' Trash

Monday 10

• New environmentalism
• Sweden
• Music: Gone gone gone
• Plastic Bags

Monday 03

• The perception gap
• Strangers in their own country: a diary of hope
• Light bulbs
• The paranormal
• Music : Boogie Woogie ( I may be wrong)

February 2008

Monday 25

• Geopolitics: the year ahead
• University enrolment
• Music
• Federal - state relations

Monday 18

• Inflation
• The last intellectuals revisited
• Music: Small Black
• US politics

Monday 11

• Peak oil
• Prehistory
• Music: Route 66
• Chinese food

Monday 04

• Science and public policy
• Weird history
• Music - Ain't nobody's business if Ido
• Remembering Paddy McGuinness

January 2008

Monday 28

• The rum rebellion
• Heroin and addiction
• Music
• Biomimicry

Monday 21

• Moral consequences of economic growth
• Music
• The sushi economy
• The male brain

Monday 14

• China and soft power
• Expanding cities
• Music
• Bottled water

Monday 07

• Age of abundance
• End of blackness
• Music
• A Perfect Mess