Henry Thornton is the nom de plume of a prominent economist. Like his predecessor the modern Henry Thornton has been a banker and an advisor to M.P.s although he is not a politician himself. He is no evangelist but is keenly interested in a wide range of economic, social and political issues...
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Henry Thornton |
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Henry Thornton (1760-1815) was a banker, M.P., philanthropist, and a leading figure in the influential group of Evangelicals that was known as the Clapham set. His 'Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain (1802)' is an amazing performance. "...it anticipates in some
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PD Jonson |
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Peter Jonson is a professional director and economist. He serves on the boards of listed companies Village Roadshow, Bionomics and Pro Medicus. Chairman of the Melbourne Institute Advisory Board from 1992 to 2002, now Chair Emeritus. Founding Chair of the Australian Institute for Commercialisatio
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Louis Hissink |
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Louis Hissink (MSc, Macquarie University) is a consulting diamond geologist, formerly of John Taylors, Western Mining Corporation Ltd and De Beers. He has worked for other companies but embarrassment precludes their identification.
Louis was recently made Editor of the Australian Institute o
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Nick Raffan |
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Nick Raffan (BA; Diploma in Geoscience, Macquarie University) has over 30 years experience as a geologist, finance professional and mineral economist. For the past 19 years he has worked within financial markets split 50:50 between the sell-side and the buy-side. Previously he was co-portfolio manag
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Fiona Prior |
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Fiona Prior has contributed to many arts related publications over the last two decades including The Bridge, Pulz, Stiletto, Satellite, Billy Blue, Idea/Idee, Online Opinion and Chaos Generation. Now ('some times') editor of Henry's 'Film and Entertainment' Section, she brings us all that is excel
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Bert Thornton |
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Bert is Henry's elder son. He is a student with a keen interest in history and politics.His sporting interests encompass Football, Cricket and Tennis.
Bert's definition of politics : "The debate that shapes a nation."
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Peter Byron |
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Peter William Byron was born in Greensborough, Victoria in 1960.
He studied fine art at Diamond Creek Technical School and completed a Diploma of Fine Art at Preston Institute of Technology in 1982. He commenced painting as a full time career in 1989.
Peter first exhibited at the Virgin Me
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John Roskam |
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John Roskam is the Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs.
Before joining the IPA, he was the Executive Director of The Menzies Research Centre in Canberra. He has also held positions as Chief of Staff to Dr David Kemp, the Federal Minister for Employment, Education, Training
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Ross Garnaut |
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Professor Ross Garnaut has had a distinguished career as a policy advisor, a diplomat, a businessman and a professor at the Australian National University.
Since 2009, Garnaut is Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne
He was a hig
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Sir Wellington Boote |
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Sir Wellington Boote is a man with deep first-hand experience of some of the world's more complete hell-holes, in Africa, in the Middle East and in Vietnam, where he did not notice John Howard as a young fellow conscript.
He brings unparalleled insights into the mind of those he warmly descri
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David Jonson |
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David is an undergraduate university student whose interests encompass history, politics and economics. He went on a semester exchange to Georgetown University in America in 2009. He now edits the regular economics and politics columns and writes the occasional radical blog.
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Paul Kerin |
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Paul Kerin is a distinguished professor at Melbourne Business School. Following his grounding in economics at the University of Adelaide, he earned a PhD in business economics at Harvard University. Paul has spent most of his career in business. Prior to joining MBS, he was Managing Director of AT K
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About the Stretton Group
The Stretton Group is an apolitical, not-for-profit group established in December 2003 following the disastrous south east Australian bushfire crisis in 2002/3. The Stretton Group comprises a disparate association of volunteers who support the protection of th
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Harsh Voruganti |
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Harsh Voruganti is a law student at The George Washington University Law School. Before his legal education, Harsh was a student at the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed a degree in Economics. Since spending a semester exchange at the University of Melbourne, Harsh has been captivate
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TP Maher |
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TP Maher has over 40-years experience as a journalist and a public relations strategist.
He wrote the first book on Alan Bond and has written for the Daily Mail (London), The Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Australian, BRW, Australian Business, The Bulletin, The Canberra Times, was
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Tiresias |
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In Greek mythology, the original Tiresias was the blind prophet of Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years.
The new Tiresias was born in Sydney in 1967. Educated at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, he worked as a c
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Michele Levine is the Chief Executive of Roy Morgan Research and a director of both Haoma Mining NL and Kitchener Mining NL. She is a Science graduate with Honours in Psychology and holds a Master of Environmental Studies. With over 20 years of experience in the field of research, Michele Levine ha
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Gary Morgan |
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Gary Morgan is owner and Executive Chairman of the highly regarded Roy Morgan Research. He is seen as having his finger on the pulse of issues in Australia. Gary is often called upon to provide a research-based understanding of the public's views, with his political and social comment being frequent
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Dr. Nicholas Gruen |
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Dr Nicholas Gruen is a modern renaissance man. He has degrees in law, history, economics and public policy. These degrees were from Melbourne University and the Australian National University, and Nicholas is now a visiting fellow at both of these distinguished universities.
Nicholas has he
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Hugh M Morgan AC |
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Hugh Morgan is Principal of First Charnock; a Director of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia; President of the Business Council of Australia; Co-Chair of the Commonwealth Business Council; President of the Australia Japan Business Co-operation Committee and a member of the Lafarge Internatio
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Padraic Pearse McGuinness, 1939 - 2008.
Bachelor of Economics (hons), Sydney University, 1960; Master of Science (Economics), London School of Economics and Political Science, 1967.
For many years a distinguished social, economic and political commentator. Paddy was a great friend
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Julian Mitchell |
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After completing a pure honours degree in Philosophy at Melbourne University, Julian embarked on a career in Financial Services and spent several years working for a large American Bank in both London and New York as an institutional research analyst and in investment banking.
In 1990, Julian
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Robert Beerworth |
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Between maintaining the technical aspects of henrythornton.com and sleeping fitfully, Robert can be found in the kitchen preparing his latest triomphe culinaire, up the coast of NSW hanging out with his favourite de facto family or reading his Saturday papers on Tuesday.
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Imogen Corlette |
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Tortured by conflicting passions, Imogen works across the arts and entertainment sectors, where she has been managing PR for some of Australia's major arts brands for several years. Working closely with musicians, artists and creative spirits she is focused on the changing nature of the arts, and it
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Amelia Thornton |
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Amelia Thornton is the non de plume of an Australian academic with qualifications in mathematics, science, philosophy and management. As well as teaching management at an Australian University, Amelia rules the Thornton household with an iron grip and does serious taxi duty for kiddie sport on the
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Shikishi is the love child of a hyper-active brain in the throws of insomnia and a computer software package. She was prematurely delivered by Santa 22 December 2004. It was a surprisingly bloodless birth.
At her naming ceremony a computer savvy fairy blessed her with a heart placed slightly
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Graeme Mills |
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Graeme, B.A. LLB brings a love of history, a keen interest in current affairs and a passion for China.
After a career in Sydney in property - sales, finance and development - Graeme Mills returned to his home town on the far north coast of NSW.
He taught music for a few years, the Mon
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Tim Harcourt |
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Tim Harcourt is the chief economist of the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade). As chief economist Tim analyses the global economy to help Australian exporters and helps Austrade devise its own business strategies. Tim is also an active commentator in the Australian and international media on eco
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Saul Eslake |
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Saul Eslake has been Chief Economist of the Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) since August 1995. He is a member of ANZ’s Group Asset and Liability Committee, which oversees the management of the Bank’s balance sheet, and is also Chairman of ANZCover, the Bank’s internal fraud, crime and
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Fred Cottrell |
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Fred Cottrell is the nom-de-plume of an up and coming corporate leader with designs on prominence. Fred spent his early years on a drought affected farm in far East Gippsland (Victoria) learning how to catch trout and castrate rams before moving to the big smoke, pausing on the way to learn to be a
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Mark Hodge |
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Mark Hodge is a business professional with formal training in engineering and business administration from Monash University, The Ohio State University and Melbourne Business School. The majority of his professional career has been spent in technology development and management, producing commercial
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Henry`s "Lexington" |
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The current "Lexington" (from July 2008) is a distinguished defence-sector executive who spends significant time on both sides of the Pacific building wealth and developing the US-Australia alliance. When not consulting on difficult technology-sharing agreements, high-complexity engineering
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Elizabeth Peters |
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Elizabeth Peters is a veteran of the drugs, sex and rock'n'roll of the swinging sixties but is now a distinguished academic. She comments on a reviewer's description of her first novel, published exclusively by Henry Thornton.com: "Micky Spillane with a bit of Aldous Huxley? Eat your heart out, Pe
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Kevin Cox |
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Kevin Cox was born in 1940 in Tasmania. He obtained Civil Engineering and Science qualifications from Tasmania University. His first job was as a Civil Engineer but moved to computing in 1965. He later obtained an MSc in computing from the ANU and a PhD in informations systems from the University of
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Dr. Paul Monk |
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Dr. Monk appears regularly on ABC radio and television as a commentator on international security affairs, especially with regard to China. He is an essayist of some note and a prolific author. With Tim van Gelder, he co-founded Austhink in 2000. In 2006, Austhink created a subsidiary, Austhink Soft
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Paul Barratt |
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Paul Barratt is an independent consultant with a background in science, nuclear technology, economics and Asian history and culture. He has senior public sector experience in defence, foreign affairs, international trade, energy and natural resource management. He is a founding director of Australia
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