Per Capita on ABC24's The Drum

Per Capita's David Hetherington will appear tonight, Monday 31st January 2011 on The Drum, ABC News24, at 6pm.

Per Capita on ABC24's The Drum

Watch Per Capita's Tim Soutphommasane appear on ABC24's The Drum (iView 26/01/11) http://bit.ly/fBufdR

Watch Per Capita's David Hetherington appear on ABC24's The Drum (iView 19/01/11) http://bit.ly/fBufdR

6pm The Drum ABC24

Tim Soutphommasane will appear tonight at 6pm on The Drum on ABC24

Alan Stokes calls for the revival of a volunteer corps

In today's AFR Alan Stokes calls for the revival of a national volunteer corps and cites Tim Suthphommasane idea of a new patriotism through national service, civic or military duty.

David Hetherington to appear on ABC24 The Drum tonight at 6pm

David Hetherington, Executive Director, Per Capita, will appear on The Drum ABC News24 at 6pm tonight, 19th January 2011. #auspol #ausvotes

SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT parties lack self-belief

Per Capita Fellow Dennis Glover writes in the Australian “SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT parties have many problems at present, but perhaps the most serious is the lack of self-belief that results from their tendency to underestimate the potential appeal of the progressive agenda.” Read the full article here

Best of times are the worst for some,

by Stephen Lunn, The Australian December 24, 2010

In a piece on poverty, Steven Lunn quotes Dennis Glover, a Labor speechwriter and fellow at Per Capita, who says "Labor, in the public's mind at least, has lost the political high ground on this key social issue to the Greens and should be recasting itself in a bid to grab it back.

"Labor was founded to tackle poverty," Glover says. "But you have to remember that, 100 years ago, people, even with jobs, could spend their lives hungry, cold and with no education.

"That level of entrenched poverty is no longer with us. The grandparents of working people today wouldn't believe the lives of working-class people now. Their living standards have gone up more in the last few decades than in the last five centuries.

"This is an inescapable fact for people on the left of politics and only by accepting it can we do what we should be doing and zero in on those really in poverty: those who finished school early, the sick, the alcohol and drug-dependent, the homeless.

"People often think this is a marginal question for Labor but I think it's central. Much of the public now look to the Greens for this stuff, but it's where Labor can push into. Generally people want to help those worse off and it's a real political opportunity to impress Labor's base."

To read the whole article link here.