Policy Spring 2003
Vol. 19 No. 3 (Spring, 2003)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
Past issues of Policy are available online free of charge.
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BOOK REVIEW: 2001: The Centenary Election
| 09 Sep 20032001: The Centenary Election edited by John Warhurst and Marian Simms (University of Queensland Press, 2002.)
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FEATURE: Speed Traps: Saving Lives Or Raising Revenue?
| 09 Sep 2003
Governments and police continue to target motorists with more speed cameras and tougher penalties despite the failure of 'speed kills' policies.
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BOOK REVIEW: Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life
| 09 Sep 2003Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life by James R. Otteson (Cambridge University Press, 2002.)
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DEBATE: What Role For Government?
| 03 Mar 2009Nic Frances and Peter Saunders debate whether government should create one million new jobs to soak up the unemployed.
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FEATURE: Public Choice: Politics Without Romance
| 09 Sep 2003Public choice demonstrates why looking to government to fix things can often lead to more harm than good.
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FEATURE: Health Sense: When Spending Money Saves Money
| 09 Sep 2003It would cost the government more to allow private health insurance to dwindle than to continue to support it.
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INTERVIEW: After Iraq: The Road From Baghdad
| 09 Sep 2003Geoffrey Blainey speaks with Victor Davis Hanson about whether America can remain the world's pre-eminent power, what is at stake in the war on terrorism and the high level of goodwill between Australia and the United States.
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COMMENT: Will New Zealand ever rejoin ANZUS?
| 09 Sep 2003
Recent calls to lift the legislative ban on visits by nuclear powered and armed ships to New Zealand ports have so far fallen on deaf ears. Given that the original cause of this Cold War era dispute, which led to New Zealand's abrupt departure from the ANZUS alliance in the 1980s, no longer applies, relaxing the ban would mark the first step towards normalising its estranged relationship with the United States. But there is a formidable weight of inertia to be overcome as well as official resistance to any move to change.
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COMMENT: Regional Illusion and Its Aftermath
| 09 Sep 2003Events since 1997 have exposed the engagement orthodoxy as wishful thinking. Under its influence, Australian foreign policy came to depict 'Asia' as an all-or-nothing project. The Howard government has broken with this orthodoxy to pursue a more pragmatic, realistic and balanced policy towards the diverse states that comprise what Gareth Evans once termed 'the East Asian hemisphere'. Predictably, this shift has caused dismay and apprehension in some media, academic and official circles.
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REVIEW ESSAY: A Manifesto for Misery
| 09 Sep 2003
Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003).
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BOOK REVIEW: Economics and Its Enemies: Two Centuries of Anti-Economics
| 09 Sep 2003
Economics and its Enemies: Two Centuries of Anti-Economics by William Coleman (Bassingstoke, Palgrave, 2002.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: A New Reform Agenda For Australia
| 09 Sep 2003Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: A New Reform Agenda for Australia Edited by Peter Dawkins and Paul Kelly (Allen & Unwin, 2003.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Terror and LIberalism
| 09 Sep 2003Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman (New York & London, Norton, 2003.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict and Law
| 09 Sep 2003Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict and Law Edited by Terry L. Anderson and Fred S. McChesney (Princeton University Press, 2003.)
