Dissent is an Australian national magazine devoted to the analysis of politics, economics and issues in Australian society in general. It is published three times a year in Yarralumla

Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory

Yarralumla is a large inner south suburb of Canberra, the capital city of Australia. Located approximately south-west of the city, Yarralumla extends along the south-west bank of Lake Burley Griffin...

, ACT

Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

 Australia. The Co-editors are Kenneth Davidson and Lesley Vick. Kenneth Davidson also has a weekly column with the Melbourne broadsheet newspaper 'The Age'.

The magazine has no formal ties with any political party or group but as stated on its website the content reflects the Editors' views which dissent from the prevailing orthodoxy that the welfare state should be cut back in favour of economic efficiency and unfettered individual liberty.

Contributors

Contributors have included Andrew Wilkie

Andrew Wilkie

Andrew Damien Wilkie is an Australian politician and independent federal member for Denison...

, Beatrice Faust, Marilyn Lake, Brian Walters

Brian Walters

Brian Walters SC is a prominent Melbourne barrister and human rights advocate. Brian was the Australian Greens candidate for the state seat of Melbourne in the 2010 Victorian state election.-Early career:...

, John Quiggin

John Quiggin

John Quiggin is an Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland. Quiggin studied at the Australian National University, obtaining bachelor's degrees in Arts and Economics in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and completing a master's degree in Economics in 1984. Quiggin was awarded...

, David Hill

David Hill (businessman)

David Hill is a British-born Australian businessman who has held a number of high profile senior positions with public authorities in Australia. He is also a writer....

, Barry Jones

Barry Jones (Australian politician)

Barry Owen Jones AO, FAA, FASSA, FAHA, FTSE, FACE is a writer, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan, and remains against capital punishment...

, Kerry Nettle, Mark Diesendorf

Mark Diesendorf

Mark Diesendorf teaches Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He was formerly Professor of Environmental Science at...

, Don Aitkin

Don Aitkin

Don Aitkin is a writer, strategist, consultant and director who is currently the Chairman of Australia’s National Capital Authority. He served as Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra from 1991 to 2002, and as Vice-President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee in 1994...

, Evan Whitton

Evan Whitton

Evan Whitton is an Australian journalist who currently is a columnist the online legal journal Justinian. He was editor of The National Times from 1978 to 1981, Chief Reporter and European Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, Reader in Journalism at the University of Queensland, Journalist...

, Mick Dodson

Mick Dodson

Professor Michael James "Mick" Dodson, AM is an indigenous Australian leader, a member of the Yawuru peoples in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia. His brother is Patrick Dodson, also a noted Aboriginal leader.Following his parents' death, he boarded at Monivae...

, James Jupp

James Jupp

James Jupp AM is a British-Australian political scientist and author. He is Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and an Adjunct Professor of the RMIT University in Melbourne...

, John Langmore

John Langmore

John Vance Langmore is an Australian academic and politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1984 to 1996....

External links

• Dissent.com.au – official website
• http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/by/kenneth-davidson- kenneth davidson profile, fairfax