Policy Winter 1990
Vol. 6 No. 2 (Winter, 1990) POLICY Magazine Issue Winter 1990-
FEATURE: Inflation: ITs Costs, Its Causes and Its Cure
| 06 Jun 1990It is now widely agreed that inflation is a major underlying cause of Australia's economic malaise. The argument that the costs of curing inflation should be endured for the sake of the lasting benefits of price stability.
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FEATURE: Why Microeconomic Reform Won't Reduce Foreign Debt
| 06 Jun 1990Pressure on the Australian government to expedite its prorgam of microeconomic reform stems very largely from the belief that suuch reform is needed to reduce the current account deficit and contian the growth of foreign debt. The argument that economic reform is highly desirable but will not lead to the increases in saving needed to reduce foreign debt.
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FEATURE: The Lalonde Doctrine in Action: The Campaign Against Passive Smoking
| 06 Jun 1990In 1974 Marc Lalonde, Canada's Minister of National Health and Welfare, proposed that health promotion policy should ignore the uncertainties and ambiguities of scientific evidence in order to make its messages 'loud, clear and unequivocal.' Taking the campaign against passive smoking as a typical example. Peter Finch shows that the Lalonde approach has led to the politicisation of health promotion.
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FEATURE: The Future of AUSSAT: A Review of the Options
| 06 Jun 1990
The Australian government's review of the strctural relationships amongt Telecom Australia, OTC and AUSSAT includes an examination of the extent to which Australia's satellite service requirements could be met by other satellite systems and of the scope for, and the desirability of, modifying AUSSAT's second generation satellites. An examination of AUSSAT's policy options.
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FEATURE: What's Wrong with AUSTEL's Draft Report on Cellular Mobile Telephone Service
| 06 Jun 1990AUSTEL has recently recommended the ending of Telecom Australia's monopoly in the market for mobile telephone services. The argument that AUSTEL's draft report doesn't go nearly far enough in promoting genuine competition and could even strengthen the Telecom monopoly.
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FEATURE: Will Local Employment Initiatives Promote Regional Development?
| 06 Jun 1990A summary of the reasons for the failure of regional development policies to influence significantly the well-being of rural Australia, assessing the prospects of the Local Employment Initiatives now being promoted by State and local governments.
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BOOK REVIEW: Arbitration: Missing the Main Debate
| 06 Jun 1990Foundations of Arbitration: The Origins and Effects of State Compulsory Arbitration 1890-1914 edited by Stuart Macintyre and Richard Mitchell (Oxford University Press, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: New Roads Backwards
| 06 Jun 1990Tools of Change: New Technology and the Democratisation of Work by John Mathews (Pluto Press, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Failure of Aboriginal Affairs Policy
| 06 Jun 1990
Give and Take: The Losing Partnernship In Aboriginal Poverty by David Pollard (Hale and Iremonger, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Funding The States Fairly
| 06 Jun 1990Fiscal Equalisation, Allocative Efficiency and State Undertakings: The Commonwealth Grants Commission 1988 Report on Relativities edited by Cliff Walsh (ANUTECH, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Persistence of Inequality
| 06 Jun 1990Egalitarianism and the Generation of Inequality by Henry Phelps Brown (Clarendon Press, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Value of Political Freedom
| 06 Jun 1990The Morality of Freedom by Joseph Raz (Clarendon Press, 1988.)
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NOTES & COMMENTS: New Zealand's Employment Equity Bill: A Critique
| 06 Jun 1990New Zealand has had equal pay legislation in the state sector since 1961, as well as in the private sector since the Equal Pay Act of 1972.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: Federal vs State Incorporation: Why The High Court Got It Right
| 06 Jun 1990The functions of corporate law.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: Why the Medicare Levy Doesn't Pay for Medicare
| 06 Jun 1990The medicare levy and costs of medicare.
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OBITUARY: William Warren Bartley III
| 06 Jun 1990William Warren Bartley III: 1934-1990.
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FEATURE: The Green Movement: Its Origins, Goals and Relevance For a Liberal Society
| 12 Dec 1990
Whereas mainstream environmentalists seek a balance between economic growth and environmental protection, 'hard' environmentalists are opposed to eocnomic development as such. The argument that the latter viewpoint is increasing its influence through its impact on political, scientific and media establishments.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Winter 1990
| 06 Jun 1990Rafe's Round- Up for POLICY Magazine Winter 1990.
