Policy Winter 2007
Vol. 23 No. 2 (Winter, 2007)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
Past issues of Policy are available online free of charge.
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FEATURE: Milton Friedman on the Wallaby Track
| 06 Jun 2007
Milton Friedman and monetarism both visited Australia in the 1970s.
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FEATURE: Not So Big Government
| 06 Jun 2007
In responding to POLICY articles by Andrew Norton and Des Moore, the then-Treasurer Peter Costello argued that governmnet spending as a proportion of GDP has gone down. In the articles that follow, Andrew Norton and Robert Carling reply to the Treasurer's claims.
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FEATURE: The Tax Take Is Up
| 06 Jun 2007The mantle of 'highest taxing Treasurer' may go with the job, but the government's tax record is still disappointing.
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FEATURE: Liberal Egalitarianism and Religious Vilification Laws
| 06 Jun 2007Equality of persons is a stronger foundation for freedom of speech than fallibility of knowledge argues.
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FEATURE: Cultural Nationalism: The Last Resort of Scoundrels
| 06 Jun 2007Protectionism has spread to culture.
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FEATURE: Ownership Matters
| 06 Jun 2007Privatisation contributes more to productivity and efficiency than even some economic liberals think.
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COMMENT: National Curriculum: A Bipartisan Bad Idea
| 06 Jun 2007A national curriculum involves more risks than benefits.
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FEATURE: Enlightening Islam
| 06 Jun 2007Leonie Phillips talks with Ayaan Hirsi Ali about Islam and liberalism.
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REVIEW ESSAY: 'Quiet Boom' and 'The Search For Stability'
| 06 Jun 2007Two views on the economic expansion.
Quiet Boom: How the Long Economic Upswing is Changing Australia and its Place in the World by John Edwards (Lowy Institute Paper 14, 2006.)
The Search for Stability: Boyer Lectures 2006 by Ian Mcfarlane (ABC Books, 2006.) -
BOOK REVIEW: Alexis de Tocqueville: Propehet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution- A Biography
| 06 Jun 2007Alexis de Tocqueville: Propehet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution- A Biography by Hugh Brogan (Profile Books, 2007).
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BOOK REVIEW: Work Choices: What the High Court Said
| 06 Jun 2007Work Choices: What The High Court Said by Andrew Stewart and George Williams (Federation Press, Sydney, 2007).
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BOOK REVIEW: Actual Ethics
| 06 Jun 2007
Actual Ethics by James R Otterson (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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BOOK REVIEW: Dumbing Down: Outcomes-Based and Politically Correct- The impact of the Culture Wars on Our School
| 06 Jun 2007Dumbing Down: Outcomes-based and politically correct- the impact of the Culture Wars on our schools by Kevin Donnelly (Hardie Grant, 2007).
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BOOK REVIEW: Bad Dreaming: Aboriginal Men's Violence Against Women and Children
| 06 Jun 2007Bad Dreaming: Aboriginal Men's Violence Against Women and Children by Louis Nowra (Pluto Press, 2007).
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BOOK REVIEW: Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
| 06 Jun 2007
Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren (W.W. Norton, 2007).
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BOOK REVIEW: Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate
| 06 Jun 2007Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government is controlling public opinion and stifling debate by Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison (Allen & Unwin, 2007).
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BOOK REVIEW: Super-State: The New Europe and Its Challenge to America
| 06 Jun 2007Super-State: The New Europe and its Challenge to America by Steohen Haseler (IBTauris, 2005).
