Policy Autumn 1990
Vol. 6 No. 1 (Autumn, 1990) POLICY Magazine Issue Autumn 1990.-
FEATURE: The Politics of Successful Structural Reform
| 03 Mar 1990A shortened and edited version of a paper delivered by Roger Douglas, New Zealand's Minister of Finance 1984-88 and Minister for Immigration 1989-90 at the Pacific Regional Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in Christchurch on 28 November 1989.
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FEATURE: Enterprise Bargaining: The Key to Post-Accord Wages Policy
| 03 Mar 1990Supporters of the Accord between the Australian federal government and the ACTU claim that labour market deregulation would lead to a wages explosion. This article argues that the accord is disintegrating anyway, but that enterprise bargaining and more competition throughout the economy would prevent a wages break-out.
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FEATURE: South Africa's Democratic Capitalist Future
| 03 Mar 1990In 1986, the Kwazulu/Natal Indaba drafted a regional constitution based on the principle of multiracial power-sharing. One of its main architects is Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi. He argues that a negotiated free-enterprise, democratic post-apartheid South Africa is an increasingly practicable option.
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FEATURE: The Politics of Successful Structural Reform
| 03 Mar 1990
OECD studies show that politicians tend, worldwide, to avoid structural reform until it is forced upon them by economic stagnation, a collapse of their currency, or some other economic and social disaster.
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FEATURE: Enterprise Bargaining: The Key To Post-Accord Wages Policy
| 03 Mar 1990Supporters of the accord between the Australian federal government and the ACTU claim that labour market deregulation would lead to a wages explosion. Terry Ryan argues that the Accord is disintegrating anyway, but that enterprise bargaining and more competition throughout economy would prevent a wages break-out.
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FEATURE: Alliance or Isolation? New Zealand's Post-ANZUS Defence Problems
| 03 Mar 1990It has been said that whilst the ANZUS Treaty was of crucial importance to Australia's defence; as it was of less importance to New Zealand's system of defence, resulting in New Zealand's contribution to defence cooperation was 'the bare minimum consonant with membership of the alliance.'
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FEATURE: Putting Australian Railways On The Right Track
| 03 Mar 1990The Australian railway industry has begun to take steps to contain its huge deficits. Ken Ogden identifies the causes of the deficits and recommends further reforms that are needed to put the railways on a commercial basis.
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FEATURE: Sexual Harrassment and The Sex Discrimination Act 1984
| 03 Mar 1990Australia's Sex Discrimination Act 1984 contains provisions prohibiting sexual harassment. An examination of the underlying rationale of these provisions and shows how their definition of sexual harrassment has given rise to uncertainty about what constitutes lawful sexual conduct.
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FEATURE: Aid For Employment?
| 03 Mar 1990Lack of employment opportunities is a major source of poverty in many developing countries. A discussion of whether and how Australian aid programs can help developing countries promote employment-generating policies.
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FEATURE: A Better Electoral System For The ACT
| 03 Mar 1990The Australian Capital Territory's recently-established Legislative Assembly must by law be lected by proportional representation. The argument that Tasmania's Hare-Clark system would be an improvement on the modified d'Hondt system used in the election of 4 March 1989.
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FEATURE: Britain and European Union: The Broader Issues
| 03 Mar 1990This article sets out the philosophy of the Bruges Group and speculates on the likely impact of recent political changes in central Europe on the EEC.
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CRITICAL REVIEW: Problems of Parliamentary Democracy: Reid & Forrest on the Commonwealth Parliament
| 03 Mar 1990Australia's Commonwealth Parliament 1901-1988: Ten Perspectives by Gordon Reid and Martyn Forrest (Melbourne University Press, 1989.)
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FEATURE: Criminal Choice: An Economic View Of Life Outside The Law
| 03 Mar 1990Unlike the dominant sociological approach to crime and punishment, the economic approach treats criminals as rational choosers who take into account the likelihood and serverity of punishment. The strengths and limitations of this approach are expounded by Dr Cathy Buchanan and Peter Hartley.
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FEATURE: A New Political History of Economic Growth
| 03 Mar 1990Economic historians have emphasised Britain's 'unique' industrial revolution at the expense of earlier periods of rapid economic growth in other parts of the world. The argument that only the study of all these instances can reveal the general causes of economic growth.
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LETTERS: Wolfgang Kasper Vs Tony Makin On Foreign Debt
| 03 Mar 1990
Does Foreign Debt matter?
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NOTES & COMMENTS: The Bureaucratic Function Algebraically Expressed: A Report On Loevinger's Finding
| 03 Mar 1990"The sole purpose of this article is to publicise Loevinger's findings. Ancient as they are, they still constitute the major research in the field. Loevinger believes that the bureaucracy functions according to three laws of sociodynamics, from which can be derived a formula that expresses the efficiency of the bureaucracy."
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BOOK REVIEW: Beyond The GATT
| 03 Mar 1990Towards Freer Trade Between Nations edited by John Nieuwenhuysen (CEDA Study, Oxford University Press, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Foreign Policy In The 1990s
| 03 Mar 1990In Pursuit of National Interests: Australian Foreign Policy In The 1990s edited by F. A. Mediansky and A. C. Palfreeman (Pergamon Press Australia, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Keeping The Pacific Peaceful
| 03 Mar 1990Strategy and the South-West Pacific: An Australian Perspective by Owen Harries (Pacific Security Research Institute, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Utah and the State
| 03 Mar 1990
Utah and Queensland Coal: A Study In The Micro Political Economy of Modern Capitalism and The State by Brian Galligan (University of Queensland Press, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Apartheid Vs. Capitalism
| 03 Mar 1990Apartheid and International Finance by Keith Ovenden and Tony Cole (Penguin Books Australia, 1989.)
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Autumn 1990
| 03 Mar 1990Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Autumn 1990.
