Policy Summer 2008
Vol. 24 No. 4 (Summer, 2008)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
Past issues of Policy are available online free of charge.
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OPINION: Won't Somebody Think of the Adults?
| 12 Dec 2008
The Rudd government's proposed censorship regime will slow internet access and hand criminals a directory of illegal content.
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OPINION: Out With the Old: Are the CDEP Reforms Enough?
| 12 Dec 2008
Making Indigenous Australians in remote communities work-ready requires much more than changes to CDEP.
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FEATURE: Dr Friedman and Mr Hyde: The Rise of Disaster Polemics
| 12 Dec 2008Naomi Klein's attack on Milton Friedman misses its target.
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FEATURE: Commodity Prices and the Australian Economy: Trends Versus Cycles
| 12 Dec 2008
Real commodity prices will declines over the long run.
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FEATURE: What's So Bad About Judicial Review?
| 12 Dec 2008Judges can provide a useful check on activist legislators.
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FEATURE: Defusing The American Right
| 12 Dec 2008
Is the American conservative-libertarian fusion breaking up?
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FEATURE: Politics and the University
| 12 Dec 2008Claims of academics bias raise deeper questions about the nature of universities.
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FEATURE: Art and The Enlightenment Project
| 12 Dec 2008Art for the audience, rather than art for art's sake, is one characteristics found in the Enlightenment view of the arts.
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FEATURE: Paying for Self-Medication in Australia
| 12 Dec 2008Whether pharmacy medicine rules protect patients or pharmacies is open to debate.
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REVIEW ESSAY: Clive Hamilton, The Universe and Everything
| 12 Dec 2008
Clive Hamilton asks some interesting quesitions but gives unconvincing answers, writes Jeremy Shearmur in The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-secular Ethics (Allen and Unwin, 2008).
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REVIEW ESSAY: The Kevin 07 Story
| 12 Dec 2008
The story of Rudd's rise is better told than the story of Howard's fall.
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BOOK REVIEW: Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
| 12 Dec 2008Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis by Mike Cinoy (St Martin's Press, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: Grand New Part: How Republicans Can Win The Working Class and Save the American Dream
| 12 Dec 2008Grand New Party: How the Republicans can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam (Doubleday, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work In Contemporary China
| 12 Dec 2008Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China by Anne-Marie Brady (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004-2007
| 12 Dec 2008Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004-2007 edited by Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall (UNSW Press, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: The Post-American World
| 12 Dec 2008The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria (W. W. Norton & Company, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: A Military History of Australia, 3rd Ed
| 12 Dec 2008
A Military History of Australia, 3rd ed. by Jeffrey Grey (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
