Policy Spring 2006
Vol. 22 No. 3 (Spring, 2006)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
Past issues of Policy are available online free of charge.
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FEATURE: Out of Position: Against The Politics of Relative Standing
| 09 Sep 2006
Zero-sum positional conflict is avoidable in a liberal market society.
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FEATURE: When Will Leviathan Fade Away?
| 09 Sep 2006The federal government has failed to curb discretionary spending.
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FEATURE: The Fall and Rise of the State in New Zealand
| 09 Sep 2006After a brief respite in the 1980s and early 90s, the state's powerful role in New Zealand life has begun to grow again. Interventionism is back in fashion and results are hardly encouraging.
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FEATURE: The Minimum Wage and The Australian Fair Pay Commission
| 09 Sep 2006In dealing with its partly contradictory objectives, the Australian Fair Pay Commission must keep in mind the negative effects of minimum wages.
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FEATURE: Future Fund or Future Eater?
| 09 Sep 2006The opportunity cost of Commonwealth revenue hoarding. Budget surpluses should be used to reform tax.
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DEBATE: On the Right To Give Offence
| 09 Sep 2006Freedom of speech should cede nothing to religious sensibilities.
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COMMENT: The Falcon and the Falconer
| 09 Sep 2006To more effectively combat terrorism, we need to understand why homegrown Western converts turn against their own societies.
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INTERVIEW:The Politics of Furedi
| 09 Sep 2006Peter Saunders interviews Frank Furedi.
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REVIEW ESSAY: Law Without Government
| 09 Sep 2006
The Law of the Somalis: A Stable Foundation for Economic Development by Michael van Notten, edited by Spencer Heath MacCallum (Red Sea Press, 2005).
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BOOK REVIEW: An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government and Other Goliaths
| 09 Sep 2006
An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government and Other Goliaths by Glenn Reynolds (Nelson Current, 2006).
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BOOK REVIEW: The Australian Miracle: An Innovative Nation Revisited
| 09 Sep 2006The Australian Miracle: An Innovative Nation Revisited by Thomas Barlow (Picador, 2006).
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BOOK REVIEW: Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty
| 09 Sep 2006Adam Smith and the pursuit of perfect liberty by James Buchanan (Profile Books, 2006).
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BOOK REVIEW: Vital Signs, Vibrant Society: Securing Australia's Economic and Social Wellbeing
| 09 Sep 2006
Vital Signs, Vibrant Society: Securing Australia's Economic and Social Wellbeing by Craig Emerson (UNSW Press, 2006).
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BOOK REVIEW: After the Neocons: Where The Right Went Wrong
| 09 Sep 2006After the Neocons: Where the Right Went Wrong by Francis Fukuyama (Profile Books, 2006).
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BOOK REVIEW: Political Parties In Transition?
| 09 Sep 2006Political Parties in Transition Edited by Ian Marsh (The Federation Press, 2006).
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
| 09 Sep 2006
A letter to the magazine in response to Dr Robertson's article on the Doha Round (Policy 22:2 (Autumn 2006)).
