Raj Patel’s post-GFC economic tract isn’t your usual fire-and-pitchfork literary lynching of bankers. And it isn’t just a bunch of flowers for true representative democracy. To fix a problem, we must first understand it.

Australia's most lovable old crank Bob Ellis is mad as hell and he isn't going to take it any more. He rallies the troops with some bizarre battle plans in The Capitalism Delusion.

In the whole tawdry Kyle & Jackie O saga, one truth has emerged: only the withholding of financial opportunity will change the commercial radio culture that allows moral bankruptcy to pass for entertainment.