Policy Autumn 1992
Vol. 8 No. 1 (Autumn, 1992) POLICY Magazine Autumn 1992 issue.-
FEATURE: Australia's Strategies for Trade Reform
| 03 Mar 1992Interest is growing in Australia in 'strategic trade policy' and in bilateral trade agreements involving a regional free-trade area. An assessment of these proposals and Neil Vousden's conclusion that the clearest gains are available from continuing unilateral trade liberalisation.
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FEATURE: A New Classical Response to the Langmore Report
| 03 Mar 1992The 1991 Langmore Report rejects the 'New Classical' argument that Australia's current account deficit and external debts should not be targets of economic policy.
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FEATURE: Microeconomic Reform and the Welfare State
| 03 Mar 1992An exploration of the scope for reforming the welfare state through a greater reliance on means tests and on private provision of welfare.
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FEATURE: For Compulsory Voting
| 03 Mar 1992
Australia's practice of compulsory voting is widely regarded as an infringement of individual liberty that benefits only political parties. Ross Parish argues that the system nevertheless has some redeeming features.
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FEATURE: Land Degradation, Technology and the Market
| 03 Mar 1992
This article is an explanation of the significant role of technology in Australia's primary industries, explorting the scope for the use of satellite imagery to inform the market fror agricultural land.
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FEATURE: What Garbage Crisis?
| 03 Mar 1992A market approach to solid-waste management.
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FEATURE: Why Australia's Divorce Law Should Be Reformed
| 03 Mar 1992
The law on divorce should be reformed to give effect to a 'democratic compromise' between liberal and conservative concerns.
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FEATURE: Policies of the European Community Toward Newly Liberated Countries
| 03 Mar 1992The European Community could give credibility to the liberalisation of the post-communitist economies of Eastern and Central Europe by expanding its internal free market into a European Economic Area.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Changing Minds, Changing Attitudes
| 03 Mar 1992Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation Building State Changes its Mind by Michael Pusey (Cambridge University Press, 1991.)
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REVIEW: Green Fingers, Invisible Hand
| 03 Mar 1992Markets, Resources and the Environment edited by Alan Moran, Andrew Chisholm and Michael Porter (Allen & Unwin, 1991.)
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REVIEW: Secret Ballot, Secret Malice
| 03 Mar 1992Politics and Process: New Essays in Democratic Thought edited by Geoffrey Brennan and Loren E. Lomasky (Cambridge University Press, 1989.)
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REVIEW: A Framework For Family Policy
| 03 Mar 1992The Family in the Welfare State by Alan Tapper (Allen & Unwin, 1990.)
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REVIEW: Devolution or Centralisation?
| 03 Mar 1992
Redistribution of Power? Devolution in New Zealand edited by Peter McKinlay (Victoria University Press for the Institute of Policy Studies, 1990.)
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REVIEW: Managing the Public Sector
| 03 Mar 1992Decision Making in Australian Government edited by Brian Galligan, John Nethercote and Cliff Walsh (Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations and Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration, 1990.)
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REVIEW: The Emerging British Underclass
| 03 Mar 1992The Emerging British Underclass by Charles Murray, with commentaries by Frank Field, Joan Brown, Alan Walker and Nicholas Deakin (Institute of Economic Affairs, 1990.)
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REVIEW: Causes of Fiji's Peace
| 03 Mar 1992Race and Politics in Fiji by Robert Norton (University of Queensland Press, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Missing the Major Villains
| 03 Mar 1992The Decline of the University by Philip de Lacey and Gabriel Moens (Law Press, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Scope of Spontaneous Order
| 03 Mar 1992Order- With or Without Design? Selections from F. A. Hayek's Contribution to the Theory and Application of Spontaneous Orders by Naomi Moldofsky (Centre for Research into Communist Economies, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Recurrent Anti-Capitalist Bias
| 03 Mar 1992The Selling of the Australian Mind by Stephen Knight (William Heinemann Australia, 1990) and The Temperament of Generations: Fifty Years of Writing in Meanjin edited by Jenny Lee, Philip Mead and Gerald Murnane (Meajin/Melbourne University Press, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Saved from Obscurity
| 03 Mar 1992Stormy Petrel: A Biography of Albert Edward Hocking, 1885-1969 by Patricia Hocking (Hyland House, 1990.)
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Ending the Poverty Trap for Part-Time Workers
| 03 Mar 1992Unemployment has become a very real fact of life for many people in Australia today.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Crimes of 'Racist Violence'
| 03 Mar 1992The report of the National Inquiry into racist violent in Australia.
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SCHOOLS' BRIEF: The Links Between Monetary Policy and Microeconomic Policy
| 03 Mar 1992An exploration of how monetary policy and microeconomic reform can best work toward the intertwined objectives of price stability and welfare maximisation.
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OBITUARY: F. A. Hayek
| 03 Mar 1992F. A. Hayek, 8 May 1899 - 23 March 1992: An appreciation.
