Stevehutcheson, Author at Steve Hutcheson

Warsaw Ghetto and Gaza: Disturbing Parallels

StevehutchesonDecember 19, 2023January 29, 2024

Something I wrote in 2008 which appeared in Arab News. https://www.arabnews.com/node/309445 Steve Hutcheson, Arab News Publication Date: Sun, 2008-03-02 03:00 I saw a photo last week of a father holding...

Covid-19

Things you should know about COVID-19

StevehutchesonOctober 26, 2022October 26, 2022

Donald Trump in his phone conversation with Bob Woodward perhaps inadvertently said it best, “It is deadly.” COVID-19 has closed down much of the globe. Countries and administrations around the...

Economy Politics

Who needs billionaires?

StevehutchesonOctober 26, 2022October 26, 2022

One thing that has become evident during this pandemic, is the increasing difference between the rich and the poor. Australia, by good fortune, has over the years become among the...

corruption democracy Politics UN

We failed the Afghan people

StevehutchesonApril 15, 2021October 28, 2022

Afghanistan is now how it was always going to turn out to be. There was an adage floating around Afghanistan in my time there, ‘The Americans have the watches but the...

Politics

The next Industrial Revolution

StevehutchesonDecember 10, 2018October 26, 2022

Industrial relations had its Genesis during the period of the industrial revolution during the late seventeenth century. Large scale production facilities were spawned and simultaneously, the process of collective bargaining...

democracy

Do we need Politicians?

StevehutchesonMarch 24, 2018October 20, 2018

Our political system is a mess. Politicians are by the nature of party politics, adversarial. In order to defray the legitimacy of each other, politicians are constantly looking to find...

cryptocurrency

Bitcoins and Democracy

StevehutchesonMarch 23, 2018October 26, 2022

With Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency for that matter, our thinking about the independence of our economy has established root. However, as the use and understanding of Bitcoin increases in the...

Non-Profit UN

Shelter where it is needed.

StevehutchesonMarch 12, 2018October 26, 2022

Just reading an article where some bright young thing has designed a small shelter that they are proposing to be used to house billions. (more…)

Pensions

Is that another grey hair?

StevehutchesonMarch 2, 2018October 26, 2022

I hate getting old but unfortunately, I have not found the cure for it as yet. Not with standing. I shall keep looking for some Dorian Gray substitute or perhaps...

migration

Migrants vital to our Economy.

StevehutchesonMarch 1, 2018March 6, 2018

It was somewhat ironic reading headlines in the last few days about the former Prime Minister and now vocal backbencher, Tony Abbott being critical of migration arguing that it is...