Comments on: The Grattan Institute: Centre for Ruddist Thinking

By: Barry Naughten

Barry Naughten — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

John Roskam ‘of the right-leaning Institute for Public Affairs’ may be ‘horrified’ and ‘absolutely amazed if it [Grattan] could accommodate an opinion critical of a Labor government.”
If so, how is it so that among the Directors of the Grattan Institute is the Honorable David Kemp, not only a former Coalition Minister but son of the founder of the IPA, CD Kemp? Kemp sen. was also one of the guiding lights of Menzies’ Liberal party.
Has there been a parting of the ways between David Kemp and the IPA? If so, how serious?
It is surprising that an economic neo-liberal, and spokesman for Big Business, such as Roskam is so publicly animated in this post ‘red October’ day and age, when the credibility of Thatcherism is at such a low ebb and likely to remain so.

By: Dr Harvey M Tarvydas

Dr Harvey M Tarvydas — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The unthinkable should remain unthinkable.
At least the ‘balance’ being sort here is not just with resources but also with seriously competent, creative intellects.

By: John James

John James — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

This article seems to be full of contradictions. I hope its not a foretatse of the quality of work by the Grattan Institute.
The article dismisses John Roskam’s concerns about the Grattan being willing to profer advice critical of government policy but then describes the Grattan as ” shaping up as a quasi arm of government that replaces frank and fearless advice with something eminently more pliable”
Then the article states that the Grattan ignores the ” complete lack of content at the centre-left’s ideological core” Well, here here! You just read Bernard Keane and Greg Barns often enough and you realise how woeful the Centre-Left are. And this is the”intellectual playground for the new Ruddism”
The ghost of Gough walks!