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Australia apology to Aborigines put to song

Lucas — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:56:57 +0000

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology to Aborigines for past injustices has been turned into a song, with rights activists on Monday saying the apology was a defining national moment.

“Some moments in a nation’s history are so significant, so uplifting and so unifying they become the inspiration for artists, thinkers and dreamers,” said Brett Solomon, from the political activist group GetUp.

“They turn those moments into the food which nourishes the nation’s soul,” Solomon said.

16 Secrets the Restaurant Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

Lucas — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:03:55 +0000

We scrambled behind the counters, dug under the drive-thrus, and plunged into the deep fryers to find out what’s really going into our meals

The long run to freedom from genocide to Olympic hopeful

Lucas — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:45:04 +0000

“There was no way to escape. People were waiting outside - if someone tried to jump out, they would attack them with machetes.”

Is India falling into the Malthusian trap?

Lucas — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:34:18 +0000

Twenty-first century India is beginning to retest the theories and philosophies of two of the greatest economists of the classical world: Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo.
Malthus and India

The connection between Malthus and India are twofold. For one, the country provided the fitting final stage to re-enact his theory on divergent growth pattern between population and foodgrain production even as late as the 1960s, when India was plagued by booming population growth and a diffident growth in food production.