Policy Spring 2004
Vol. 20 No. 3 (Spring, 2004)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
Past issues of Policy are available online free of charge.
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EDITORIAL: Spring 2004
| 09 Sep 2004Editorial for POLICY Magazine Spring 2004.
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FEATURE: Can Votes Be Bought?
| 09 Sep 2004More government spending hasn't paid electoral dividends.
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FEATURE: Does Australia's Health Insurance System Really Provide Insurance?
| 09 Sep 2004There is no way of funding health care so that people with private insurance do not pay twice.
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FEATURE: Liberty Bubbles
| 09 Sep 2004We value liberty because liberty maintains the diversity that feeds the evolutionary process that grrows an open society. We should value asset price bubbles in the eocnomic system for the same reason.
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FEATURE: A Future For Indigenous Youth
| 09 Sep 2004There are ways of saving young Indigenous Australians from disaster.
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FEATURE: The Foresight Saga: Risk, Litigiousness and Negligence Law Reforms
| 09 Sep 2004Tort law reform has gone too far, and contracts could usefully determine compensation in some cases.
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FEATURE: Our Changing Future
| 09 Sep 2004The Iraq war has broad implications for Australian defence policy.
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COMMENT: Environmental Fundamentalism
| 09 Sep 2004Predetermined beliefs rather than science are driving public policy on environmental issues.
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INTERVIEW: Turkey's Quest for Freedom
| 09 Sep 2004
Susan Windybank interviews Atilla Yayla about the challenges to economic and political liberalisation. They also discuss democracy in Islam and Turkey's bid for EU membership.
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REVIEW ESSAY: The Mandarins of Martin Place
| 09 Sep 2004The RBA prefers to maximise policy discretion while avoiding increased accountability.
Australia's Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the Politics of Money by Stephen Bell (Cambridge University Press, 2004.) -
BOOK REVIEW: Imagining Australia: Ideas For Our Future
| 09 Sep 2004Imagining Australia: Ideas For Our Future by Macgregor Duncan, Andrew Leigh, David Madden and Peter Tynan (Allen & Unwin, 2004.)
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BOOK REVIEW: A World Out of Balance
| 09 Sep 2004A World Out of Balance: American Ascendancy and International Politics in the 21st Century by Coral Bell (Longueville Books, 2003.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining The National Image
| 09 Sep 2004The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image by James Curran (Melbourne University Press, 2004.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism
| 09 Sep 2004
Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism by Richard A. Epstein (University of Chicago Press, 2003.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
| 09 Sep 2004The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Easterbrook (Random House, 2003.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
| 09 Sep 2004Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessing (Penguin Books, 2004.)
