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Farewell a rallying cry for health
31 August 2009
The Canberra Times
Lesley Russell writes that Ted Kennedy was a focused and powerful legislator who died with his lifelong goal of universal health cover tantalisingly within reach. Read Article
The extraordinary life of Edward Kennedy
30 August 2009
Sky News Sunday Agenda
Brendon O'Connor reflects on the influential and high profile career of the youngest Kennedy brother. Watch Online
From Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan
27 August 2009
ABC Late Night Live
A discussion with Robert O'Neill and David Kilcullen, two of Australia's most respected military and strategic thinkers, who have drawn on their own wartime experiences, a generation apart, to shape their thinking on the global conflicts of the day, from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. Listen Online
The end of the Kennedy Dynasty
27 August 2009
ABC Unleashed
Edward Moore Kennedy is dead and with his death so ends arguably the most remarkable political run of any group of siblings in the history of democratic politics, writes Brendon O'Connor. Read Article
How will we remember Senator Ted Kennedy?
26 August 2009
Sky News
Geoffrey Garrett reflects on the career of Ted Kennedy in this interview with Jim Waley. Watch Online
Ted Kennedy: The man, the politician, the dynasty
26 August 2009
ABC PM
Geoffrey Garrett looks back at the career, life and times of Senator Ted Kennedy, a politician who came to symbolise an American political dynasty. Listen Online
Senator Ted Kennedy dies
26 August 2009
ABC NewsRadio
US senator Ted Kennedy has died after battling a brain tumour. Geoffrey Garrett speaks about his long and influential career. Listen Online
Playing centre suits Rudd, not Obama
26 August 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia and the US have seemed like Siamese twins this year but now the twins are separating, writes Geoffrey Garrett. Read Article
Dennis Richardson discusses the state of Australia-US relations
24 August 2009
Ambassador to the United States Dennis Richardson AO discussed the state of Australia-US relations at a Sydney breakfast on 17 August. Read More
Former New Orleans recovery czar wins US Award
19 August 2009
Professor Edward Blakely, honorary professor of Urban Policy at the US Studies Centre, has won the highest recognition for service to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in the United States, by taking out the Jay Chatterjee Award for 2009. Read Media Release
Rebuilding the Republican Party
18 August 2009
ABC NewsRadio
Clifford May, one of the "100 most influential conservatives in America", talks about the future of the Republican Party, current debate on healthcare reform and international attitudes towards the US. Listen Online
Home is where the action is
18 August 2009
The Canberra Times
Networked communications are creating new opportunities for people to meet for public discourse, Lyn Carson writes. Read Article
Prevention of official corruption: Interview with Rutgers University Professor Adam Graycar
16 August 2009
Sky Sunday Agenda
Professor Adam Graycar, Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, talks about allegations of corruption in his home state of New Jersey. Why is corruption so rife in New Jersey and why can't it be stopped? Watch Online
Patient poorly, may improve
15 August 2009
The Canberra Times
The United States is on the brink of substantial reforms to make health care more accessible and affordable. But the battle is far from over, writes Lesley Russell. Read Article
Putting health in recovery position
14 August 2009
The Canberra Times
Members of Congress have left Washington for the August recess, and back in their districts they are facing public outrage - real and manufactured - about health-care reform, Lesley Russell writes. Read Article
E-news: 12 August 2009
12 August 2009
In this edition:
- Centre's Robert Hill to Head PM's Carbon Trust
- US Politics in the Pub: Republican and Democratic Party Perspectives
- An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
- 2010 Research Grants
- Notes on America
- Graduate Options Expo
Excessive response: Actions spread swine flu fear
11 August 2009
The Newcastle Herald
US Studies Centre Visiting Professor Lawrence Gostin spoke about the swine flu virus at a seminar on pandemic preparedness at John Hunter Hospital. Read Article
Levi participates in plenary panel at the American Sociological Association Meeting
10 August 2009
Margaret Levi and one of her UW graduate students, Jon Agnone, participated in a major plenary panel at the American Sociological Association Meetings in San Francisco. The plenary panel focused on the legacies of a major strike and set of labour actions in the 1930s that influenced labour politics and actions up to the present day. Jon and Margaret reported on the findings from their National Science Foundation funded research on the creation, maintenance, and changes in the organisational culture of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union since the 1934 General Strike in San Francisco and the simultaneous coastwide maritime strike.
Global goal for vaccine quest
8 August 2009
The Weekend Australian
Scarce swine flu immunisation must go to the needy, not the greedy, writes Lawrence 0. Gostin. Read Article
When corruption becomes a way of life
1 August 2009
South China Morning Post
It seems inconceivable that, in 2009, public officials would take brown paper bags full of cash in return for favours, writes Adam Graycar. Read Article
