As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.