Policy Autumn 2004
Vol. 20 No. 1 (Autumn, 2004)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
Past issues of Policy are available online free of charge.
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FEATURE: What Is Fair About A 'fair go'?
| 03 Mar 2004
Social affairs intellectuals who equate popular support for a 'fair go' with egalitarianism are out of step with what ordinary Australians think 'fairness' means.
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FEATURE: Another Global Trade Crisis
| 03 Mar 2004The multilateral trading system has been seriously weakened by four worrying trends.
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FEATURE: Food Phobias: Behind the Fuss Over GM Crops
| 03 Mar 2004The biggest problem consumers have with agricultural biotechnology is not genetic modification, but misinformation.
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FEATURE: A Cure for Health Care
| 03 Mar 2004A consumer empowerment model of health care provides the most feasible strategy out of the current health policy reform impasse.
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COMMENT: Can We Preserve Liberty in an Age of Terrorism? Two Perspectives
| 03 Mar 2004Security is essential for the enjoyment of freedom in a liberal society, but this does not mean that we should accept security at any price. Preserving Liberty by Nicholas Southwood and What Price Security? by John Humphreys.
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COMMENT: The Transformation of International Law
| 03 Mar 2004International law has long had its critics. In theory, it provides an indispensable framework for the stable and orderly conduct of international relations, a framework created by states to serve their collective interests.
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REVIEW ESSAY: The Idea of the University
| 03 Mar 2004
Off Course: From Public Place to Marketplace at Melbourne University by John Cain and John Hewitt (Scribe Publications, 2004).
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BOOK REVIEW: What's Wrong With the Liberal Party?
| 03 Mar 2004What's Wrong With The Liberal Party? by Greg Barns (Melbourne University Press, 2003).
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BOOK REVIEW: Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia
| 03 Mar 2004Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia by James Franklin (Macleay Press, 2003).
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BOOK REVIEW: A Perilous and Fighting Life: From Communist To Conservative,The Political Writings of Professor John Anderson
| 03 Mar 2004
A Perilous and Fighting Life: From Communist to Conservative, The Political Writings of Professor John Anderson by Mark Weblin (Pluto Press, 2003).
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BOOK REVIEW: Art of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations
| 03 Mar 2004Art of Creation: The Founding of The United States by Stephen C. Schlesinger (Westview Press, 2003).
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BOOK REVIEW: Orwell's Australia: From Cold War to Culture War
| 03 Mar 2004
Orwell's Australia: From Cold War to Culture War by Dennis Glover (Scribe Publications, 2003).
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BOOK REVIEW: Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language
| 20 Jan 2004Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson (Random House Australia, 2003).
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DEBATE: Crime and Punishment
| 03 Mar 2004Are greater use of prisons and more police work needed to reduce crime rates?
