Policy Autumn 2002
Vol. 18 No. 1 (Autumn, 2002) Policy Magazine Autumn 2002 issue.-
FEATURE: Private Risk, Public Service
| 03 Mar 2002In Britain, the Labour Party has largely eschewed privatisation and outsourcing, but has embraced public-private partnerships (PPPs). Why has there not been the same fascination with PPPs in Australia?
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FEATURE: The Market For Tradition
| 03 Mar 2002
Creating markets in higher education would allow both a 'traditionalist' university education and more vocationally-orientated degrees to flourish side by side.
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FEATURE: Funding School Choice Vouchers Or Tax Credits: A Response to Buckingham
| 03 Mar 2002School choice reforms offer the best hope for improving schooling in Australia, but outstanding issues remain over funding. Here the case is made for education vouchers instead of a tax credit system.
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FEATURE: Private Education- What the Poor Can Teach Us
| 03 Mar 2002Some of the world's most disadvantaged people- the poor of India- are pulling their children out of poorly-performing state schools and sending them to private schools run by educational entrepreneurs.
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FEATURE: Islam and Islamism: Faith and ideology
| 03 Mar 2002
Traditional Islam seeks to teach humans how to live in accord with God's will, whereas Islamism aspires to create a new order- faith-based totalitarianism.
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INTERVIEW: On Prudence and Restraint In Foreign Policy
| 03 Mar 2002Former Editor-in-Chief of the Washington-based, foreign policy journal, The National Interest, Owen Harries talks about the need for restraint in foreign policy, the war on terrorism, and Australia/US relations.
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COMMENT: The Labelling Game
| 03 Mar 2002Political labels are powerful tools. But misused and overused, they become bereft of meaning- to wit, the label 'right-wing'- their purpose being to confuse or denigrate, not clarify. The result is the corruption of public debate.
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COMMENT: A New Name For An Old Whig
| 03 Mar 2002Hayek once described himself as an 'unrepentant Old Whig- with the stress on the "old". With what values did he identify and reject by this self-definition, and is there any other definition more accesible to the general public?
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COMMENT: Quo vadis Australia?
| 03 Mar 2002
For generations, Australians have lived off the bounty of the land. But in the era of globalisation, it will be the bounty of the mind that will build our future prosperity.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Between principles and practice
| 03 Mar 2002
Liberalism and the Australian Federation Edited by J.R. Nethercote (The Federal Press, Sydney, 2001) is a valuable book about the history and track record of the Liberal Party. But it fails to address adequately the role of ideas in politics.
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BOOK REVIEW: New Old Challenges
| 03 Mar 2002Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism by Brink Lindsey (Josh Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, 2002.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction
| 03 Mar 2002The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction by Guy Rundle (Quarterly Essay, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Middle Class Welfare
| 03 Mar 2002Middle Class Welfare by James Cox (New Zealand Business Roundtable, 2001, NZ.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Poverty and Benefit Dependency
| 03 Mar 2002Poverty and Benefit Dependency by David Green (New Zealand Business Roundtable, 2001, NZ.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Psychology of Happiness
| 03 Mar 2002The Pyschology of Happiness by Michael Argyle (Routledge, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
| 03 Mar 2002
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics by Mark Lila (The New York Review of Books, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Frontiers of Legal Theory
| 03 Mar 2002Frontiers of Legal Theory by Richard Posner (Harvard University Press, 2001.)
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SCHOOLS' BRIEF: Economic Freedom in Australia
| 03 Mar 2002As economic freedom in the world improves, reform of Australia's two 'sacred cows', industrial relations and big government, is becoming more urgent.
