The Fabian Society

Welcome to the Australian Fabian
Society. They conduct a weekly talk at the Trades Hall, which has been the
historic seat of the Victoria’s labour union, that I enjoy attending for its informative
and often heated discourses on political, social and ecomonic debates.

Humanitarina Intervention Today, 8 – 9pm, Copland Theatre, University of

Week 3 of our Our World in Crisis

Aug 10th ‘05, Wednesday, 5.30 – 9pm
The discussion this time (following that in Week 1’s Making Sense of Our Times
and Week 2’s discourse on Globalization) dealt the state of the nuclear race. The two
primary points of discussion were
+ In what sense, if any, can the advent of nuclear weapons be said to have
dramatically changed the [...]

Listening to Professor Richard Falk speak of Geopolitics at the Australian

Aug 8th ‘05, Monday, 7.30 – 9.30pm
The man oozes erudition and a deep understanding of the world’s political
climate. He is not shy at laying much of the blame for the world’s current geopolitical
instability squarely at President George Bush’s and America’s doorstep. He spoke of
the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its role in acting as a [...]