Publications
Our publications are the most important means of contact between the Centre's ideas and its general readership. Since 1976, The Centre for Independent Studies has produced some of the most authoritative publications in Australasian academia. From the influential Lands of Shame to the authoritative Will China Fail? CIS has published hundreds of publications covering topics from the social policy to legal affairs to religion and education.
In addition to books, the CIS publishes a range of shorter publications: Issue Analyses deal with controversial and current issues and Policy Mongraphs investigate and offer policy solutions. Since 1984, Policy magazine has published feature articles and reviews authored by some of the foremost national and international thinkers on public policy and ideas. The quality of writing and the diversity of topics in Policy ensure its status as a 'must read' by leading politicans, businesspeople and academics.
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All Pacific Publications
Future Submarine Project Should Raise Periscope for Another Look
Australia should not spend $40 billion to repeat the mistakes of the Collins Class submarine. Nuclear submarines, such as...
Southeast Asia’s American Embrace
All Southeast Asian states want to take advantage of the benefits of a rising China, yet none wants it to be in a position...
The Bipolar Pacific
Guest-worker schemes, which have been proposed as a development solution for the Pacific, no doubt benefit the individuals...
FEATURE: The Illegal Pacific, Part 1: Organised Crime
Until the islands establish the rule of law, they will continue to suffer from the 'dark side' of globalisation.
Five Out of Ten: A Performance Report on the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI)
The Solomon Islands is stagnating despite 30 years of aid flows of hundreds of millions of dollars, innumerable consultants’...
FEATURE: What Creates Comparative Advantage for Drug Production? Lessons from Columbia
Political and social problems in Columbia created opportunities for illegal drug production, explains similar Francisco E...
The HIV/AIDS Crisis in Papua New Guinea
The rapid spread of HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea has created a health emergency, with at least 120,000 Papua New Guineans...
Time for a Change in Tonga: From Monarchy to Modernity
Despite years of generous aid and high education and health expenditure, Tonga has failed to grow substantially in the last...
Vision or Fiction? Prospects of Regional Integration in the South Pacific
Stephan Freitag discusses approaches to economic integration against the reality in trade and presents examples of sectoral...
Should Australia and New Zealand Open Their Doors to Guest Workers From the Pacific? Costs and Benefits
Should Australia and New Zealand depart from their long term immigration policies to provide work places for short term seasonal...
Annals of Aid: Vanuatu and The United States Millenium Challenge Corporation
Without fundamental reforms in land tenure, Vanuatu cannot increase its output and productivity. Without a thoroughgoing...
Papua New Guinea’s Choice: A Tale of Two Nations
The recent withdrawal of the Australian police is disastrous for the people of Papua New Guinea. The police deployed under...
From Riches to Rags What Are Nauru’s Options and How Can Australia Help?
Thirty years after enjoying the world’s second highest per capita GDP after Saudi Arabia, Nauru is on the verge of insolvency,...
Can Papua New Guinea Come Back From the Brink?
After seven months of wrangling, arrangements to deploy more than 260 Australian police and other officials to Papua New...
FEAUTURE: Does Size Matter? Tuvalu and Nauru Compared
Tuvalu and Nauru are both small Pacific states, but Nauru has been badly governed.
Aid Has Failed the Pacific
The Pacific islands are an arc of instability threatening Australia’s security. While current problems are of considerable...
Towards Racial Harmony: A New Constitution for Fiji
A new constitution that decentralises collective political power is the best way to achieve stability in Fiji by empowering Fijians...
FEATURE: Trouble in 'Paradise': The Africanisation of the South Pacific
Some of the problems that have plagued states in sub-saharan Africa may well be emerging in the South Pacific as well.
FEATURE: Learning Racial Harmony: Fiji Needs New Constitutional Rules
The situation in Fiji has deteriorated to the point where new constitutional ground rules seem the only way to overcome irreconcilable...
BOOK REVIEW: Tigers: Leaders of the New Asia-Pacific
Tigers: Leaders of the New Asia Pacific by Greg Sheridan (Allen & Unwin, 1997.)
NOTES AND COMMENTS: The Volunteers' Movement
There are more than 100,000 not-for-profits organisations set up to help others or their own members, dealing with health...
FEATURE: East Asian Dynamism and Pacific Cooperation
Fading prospects for a successful conclusion to the GATT Uruguay Round are directing attention to regional trading arrangements....
BOOK REVIEW: Military Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region
The Military, the State and Development in Asia and the Pacific edited by Viberto Selochan (Westview, Boulder, San Francisco...
BOOK REVIEW: Surveying the South Pacific
The South Pacific: Problems, Issues and Prospects edited by Ramesh Thakur (Macmillan, London in association with the University...
FEATURE: Government in the Classroom: The World Environment Day Kit
An environmental-education kit issued in mid-1992 by the Commonwealth government to thousands of schools throughout Australia...
BOOK REVIEW: Community or Area?
Rethinking the Pacific by Gerald Segal (Oxford University Press, 1990.)
REVIEW: Causes of Fiji's Peace
Race and Politics in Fiji by Robert Norton (University of Queensland Press, 1990.)
Bougainville: The Mine and the People
In Paul Quodling's judgement, the two issues of the political conflict on Bougainville and the future of the Panguna mine...
Aid and Development in the South Pacific
The political economy of the South Pacific is dominated by foreign aid. This promotes domestic statism, which in turn retards...
BOOK REVIEW: Keeping The Pacific Peaceful
Strategy and the South-West Pacific: An Australian Perspective by Owen Harries (Pacific Security Research Institute, 1989.)
Fiji: Opportunity from Adversity?
The situation in Fiji has deteriorated to the point where new constitutional ground rules seem the only way to overcome irreconcilable...
