Policy Summer 2000
Vol. 16 No. 4 (Summer, 2000) Policy Summer 2000 Issue.-
FEATURE: Privatising Parks: Why the Private Sector Can Enhance Nature Protection
| 12 Dec 2000A competitive private sector and ecological integrity are not the polar opposites they are often made out to be.
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FEATURE: Mining and Biodiversity: Rehabilitating Coal Mine Sites
| 12 Dec 2000The money currently being spent on environmental rehabilitation at mine sites could be better used to meet other goals such as the promotion of biodiversity.
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FEATURE: The 'Fair Go' in Australia: Popular Support for Taxing and Spending
| 12 Dec 2000Are Australians prepared to tolerate higher taxes in return for increased social services as welfare lobbyists often assume?
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FEATURE: The Myth of 'Two Australias': Wealth and Income Distribution
| 12 Dec 2000
Australians are enjoying unprecedented economic prosperity, with the benefits being dispersed more widley than is often recognised. But you wouldn't know it.
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FEATURE: Emperors, Clothes and Mirrors: A Sceptical View of the New Economy
| 12 Dec 2000The novel nature of the cyber economy is often offered as an excuse for technology companies' 'temporary' lack of earnings, but the problem is more fundamental.
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COMMENT: Weatherproofing Our Prosperity
| 12 Dec 2000With its half-reformed policy framework, Australia is ill-prepared for a possible slowdown in global economic growth.
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COMMENT: Ten Advantages of a Federal Constitution
| 12 Dec 2000The contitutional debate in Australia tends to concentrate on and exaggerate the minor inconveniences of federalism, making no mention of its great advantages.
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COMMENT: The Liberal Pedigree in Australia
| 12 Dec 2000Australia's so-called liberals have historically accepted a large degree of government intervention while proclaiming the necessity for individual freedom.
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CRITICAL REVIEW: A Crisis of Democracy- Again
| 12 Dec 2000Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? Edited by Susan Pharr and Robert Putnam (Princeton University Press, 1999.)
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CRITICAL REVIEW: Imagined Enemies
| 12 Dec 2000Water's Fall: Running the Risks with Economic Rationalism by Chris Sheil (Pluto Press, 2000.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Through the Looking Glass
| 12 Dec 2000Seize the Future: How Australia Can Prosper in the New Century by Alan Oxley (Allen and Unwin, 2000.)
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INTERVIEW: The Problems of Modern Democracy
| 12 Dec 2000Democracy is a matter of habits of the heart and mind: what were once called 'virtues'- as well as the mechanics of government.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Politics of Australian Society
| 12 Dec 2000The Politics of Australian Society: Political Issues for the New Century edited by Paul Boreham, Geoffrey Stokes and Richard Hall (Longman/Pearson Education, 2000.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Howard's Agenda
| 12 Dec 2000Howard's Agenda edited by Marian Simms and John Warhurst (UQP Australian Studies, 2000.)
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BOOK REVIEW: China's Future
| 12 Dec 2000China's Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat by Ted Galen Carpenter and James A. Dorn (Cato Institute, 2000.)
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BOOK REVIEW:The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia
| 12 Dec 2000The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia by Simon Marginson and Mark Considine (Cambridge University, 2000.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Reclaiming Education
| 12 Dec 2000Reclaiming Education by James Tooley (Cassell, 2000.)
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SCHOOLS' BRIEF: What is Globalisation?
| 12 Dec 2000Both those who welcome globalisation and those who oppose it tend to regard it as unprecedented, inevitable and irreversible. It is none of those things.
