A ustralian political life is entering a new era. Thinking people are fed up with the constraints currently imposed on political imagination and initiative by narrow free market ideologies. There is a renewed hunger for policy options expressive of left of centre values and principles.
People are once again ready to face up to the challenges of a changing society and a global economy.
There is an urgent demand as seldom before in our history for radical thought and searching debate. Australia's oldest political think tank. For more than half a century, we have been at the forefront of research into political ideas and public policy reform. Fabian publications, including our long-running pamphlet series, have played an important part in determining both state and national political agendas. O ur forums, seminars and conferences feature leading ministers and shadow ministers, political advisors, media identities, scholars and other opinion-makers.