Race Mathews is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University. He was previously chief of staff to Gough Whitlam as Leader of the Opposition 1967-72, a federal MP, a state MP and minister, a municipal councillor and a board member and chairman of the Waverley Credit Union. His ministerial portfolios included Minister for the Arts and Minister for Police and Emergency Services1982-87, and Minister for Community Services 1987-88. His E-mail address is race@netspace.net.au
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His Australia's First Fabians: Middle-Class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement was published by Cambridge University Press in 1994, and his Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society in 1999 by Pluto Press (Australia) and Comerford and Miller (UK).
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The Papers
A Future or No Future: Credit Unions in a Globalising Economy, 12 September 2003
Credit Unions and The New Mutualism, 18 October 1997
Friendly Societies and the New Mutualism, 25 April 1993
Jobs of Our Own: A Distributist Future for Australia, 27 May 1999
Looting the Mutuals: The Ethics and Economics of Demutualisation, 16 June 2000
Reinventing the Mutual: The Challenge for Credit Unionism, 19 November 1999
Social and Ethical Investment in Community Building, 11 April 2002
Strengthening the Foundations: Mutuality and the Performing Arts, 22 March 2001
Turning the Tide: Towards a mutualist philosophy and politics for Labor and the Left, 2001 (122KB pdf)