Are we seeing the start of a decades-long 'clash of civilisations' between the West and radical Islam, or will modernity remain the dominant force in world politics?

The widespread use of the concept of 'social exclusion' to refer to poverty and deprivation in Australia is obscuring our understanding of these problems.

Misleading survey income and expenditure data have led to the understatement of low incomes and the overstatement of poverty, both here and overseas.

Hannes H. Gissurarson's Overfishing: The Icelandic Solution; Michael de Alessi's Fishing for Solutions and Roger Bate's Saving our Streams.

Fishing markets established and operated by the state may weaken the power of fishermanand prevent them challening bureaucrats and rent seekers. Such a prospect raises (yet again) the tension between two threads of liberalism- mediating institutions and countervailing power versus free-standiong individuals trading in the marketplace.

Australians and Globalisations: The Experience of Two Centuries by Brian Galligan, Winsome Roberts and Gabriella Trifiletti (Cambridge University Press, 2001.)

Elections: Full Free and Fair edited by Marian Sawer (The Federation Press, 2001.)

The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment by Indur M. Goklany (Cato Institute, 2001.)

"A beginners guide."

Contrary to much political rhetoric, it is private enterprise that creates jobs, not governments, whose interventions often kill jobs.