Policy Summer 2012
Vol. 28 No. 4 (Summer, 2012)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
Past issues of Policy are available online free of charge.
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FEATURE: Reconciling Culture and Advancement
| 25 Feb 2013This is the address and reply by Alison Anderson, NT Minister for Indigenous Advancement, to the NT Legislative Assembly on 23 October 2012 in Darwin.
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FEATURE: Enabling Indigenous Prosperity
| 25 Feb 2013Indigenous prosperity on Indigenous lands is possible only when we stop treating Aboriginal people as inherently different.
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FEATURE: The ‘Bank Bashing’ Neurosis
| 25 Feb 2013The best answer to ‘bank bashing’ is the publishing of relevant data to counter such criticism.
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FEATURE: Hayek, Keynes and the Great Recession
| 25 Feb 2013The writings of Keynes and Hayek are rich with lessons on the causes of the current crisis and ways out of it.
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FEATURE: Secession as Political Reform: The Case of Western Australia
| 25 Feb 2013Western Australia is deserving of the remedial measure of secession.
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FEATURE: Seeking Optimism: Westminster in PNG
| 25 Feb 2013Papua New Guinea’s political system has grounds for optimism.
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FEATURE: The Spectre of Protectionism Still Haunts Australia’s Economy
| 25 Feb 2013Political parties must resist the siren’s call of protectionism’s cheap popularity.
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FEATURE: Is Machiavelli or Tacitus more Relevant for Contemporary Politics?
| 25 Feb 2013Tacitus rather than Machiavelli may be more relevant to an age of Democratic Caesarism.
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INTERVIEW: The Politics of Small Arms Proliferation
| 25 Feb 2013Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe interviews Stephanie Koorey, one of Australia’s leading specialists on conventional arms control and proliferation.
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REVIEW ESSAY: The Case for Culture in an Age of Deconstructivism
| 25 Feb 2013The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia.
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REVIEW ESSAY: The Importance of Ideology in Australian Political History
| 25 Feb 2013The Passion of Politics: The Role of Ideology and Political Theory in Australia
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REVIEW ESSAY: A Little Knowledge Makes a Poor China Choice
| 25 Feb 2013The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power
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BOOK REVIEW: The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Fail
| 25 Feb 2013The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Fail
By Niall Ferguson
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BOOK REVIEW: The Australian Moment
| 25 Feb 2013The Australian Moment
By George Megalogenis
Reviewed by Paul Brown
