Policy Winter 2003
Vol. 19 No. 2 (Winter, 2003)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
Past issues of Policy are available online free of charge.
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FEATURE: Storm Warning
| 06 Jun 2003Can the Solomon Islands be rescued? Establishing civil peace in the Solomons can only be the first step towards recovery.
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FEATURE: Help and Hassle: Do People on Welfare Really Want to Work?
| 06 Jun 2003The welfare lobby claims most unemployed people not only say they want to work, but also are motivated to do so. However, evidence is emerging that challenges this conventional wisdom.
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FEATURE: Big Sister
| 06 Jun 2003Is New Zealand the First Feminist State? The relentless pursuit of gender equity by New Zealand women in power is a one-size-fits-all approach to public policy that requires freedom of choice as the sacrafice.
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INTERVIEW: Can New Zealand Fly Again?
| 06 Jun 2003The New Reform Agenda: An interview with Sir Roger Douglas, who as the New Zealand Labour Government's Minister of Finance between 1984 and 1988, was responsible for introducing radical and wide-ranging economic reforms, 'Rogernomics', that liberalised the economy and laid the basis for a revival in the country's flagging fortunes.
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COMMENT: What It Means To Be Conservative
| 06 Jun 2003An edited version of a talk given to the Blackheath Philosophy Forum in March 2003.
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COMMENT: Unmasking Noam Chomsky
| 06 Jun 2003Noam Chomsky was the most conspicuous Amnerican intellectual to rationalise the Al-Quaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The death toll, he argued, was minor compared to the list of Third World victims of the "far more extreme terrorism" of United States Foreign Policy.
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REVIEW ESSAY: The Impossible Pusey
| 06 Jun 2003The Experience of Middle Australia: The Dark Side of Economic Reform by Michael Pusey (Cambridge University, 2003).
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BOOK REVIEW: Where To From Here? Australian Egaliatarian Under Threat
| 06 Jun 2003
Where To From Here? Australian Egalitarianism Under Threat by Fred Argy (Allen & Unwin, 2003).
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DEBATE: Does Prison Work?
| 06 Jun 2003Criminologists versus Sociologists
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BOOK REVIEW: The Free Market Innovation Machine: Analysing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
| 06 Jun 2003
The Free Market Innovation Machine: Analysing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism by William J. Baumol (Princeton University Press, 2002).
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BOOK REVIEW: Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships
| 06 Jun 2003
Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships by Peter Bernholz (Edward Elgar, 2003).
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BOOK REVIEW: Common Ground: Issues That Should Bind Us and Not Divide Us
| 06 Jun 2003Common Ground: Issues that Should Bind Us and Not Divide Us by Malcolm Fraser (Viking, Pengiun Australia, 2002).
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BOOK REVIEW: The Fuss That Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey
| 06 Jun 2003The Fuss That Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey Edited by Deborah Gare, Geoffrey Bolton, Stuart Macintyre and Tom Stannage (Melbourne University Press, 2003).
