Where have all the women gone?
by Anne Summers | Feb 25, 2005
The end of equalityI have called this paper "Where have all the Women Gone". I hope you will both recognize - and forgive - the blatant allusion to a 1960s hit song. It was a...
Why consultants lie
by Peter Griffiths | Feb 1, 2005
One person, one economist, can get a government to change its policy. I have done it. Often. It is what I do for a living. My book, The Economist's Tale (Zed Books) shows one...
Threats, challenges & change
by John Langmore | Feb 1, 2005
A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, the report of the Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, is an impressive piece of work because...
Peace building in West Papua
by Michela Noonan | Feb 1, 2005
Dialogue versus violenceThe West Papua Project is an initiative of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS), a non profit organisation which seeks to facilitate dialogue...
One hundred years of arbitration
by Stuart Macintyre | Feb 1, 2005
Nearly one hundred years ago a novel tribunal conducted its first hearing. A diminutive figure with a rasping voice and quick temper rose in a courtroom in Sydney to present a...
In defence of Dr Herbert Vere Evatt
by Arthur Gietzelt | Feb 1, 2005
A great AustralianIt is just fifty years, the October Labor Day weekend of 1954, since the Honourable Dr H V Evatt put the spotlight on an incubus, obnoxious and underground...
Broadband v. narrowband economics
by Edward Fullbrook | Feb 1, 2005
What's wrong with economics?Theories, scientific and otherwise, do not represent the world as it is but rather by highlighting certain aspects of it while leaving others in the...
Ten devils in the detail
by Louise Southalan, Patricia Ranald | Jun 17, 2004
The AUSFTA was supposed to remove trade barriers between the US and Australia and lead to economic growth. Australian farmers were supposed to gain from removal of US...
Poverty & national security
by Andrew Hewitt | Jun 17, 2004
The forthcoming election campaign will be an unusual one. It'll be one of the few times in Australia's history that foreign policy debates will be central to a campaign. This...
Labor & the world
by Mark Latham | Jun 17, 2004
On guiding principlesAustralians are entitled to know how a party seeking to govern this country will protect Australia's security and advance the country's interests. This is...