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...
Declining trade union membership
by Geoffrey Beckman | Jun 17, 2004
Trade union rightsTrade unions rights are restricted by an array of anti-union laws that limit trade union power. It is self evident that trade union power and membership numbers...
Australian television content
by Greg Duffy | Jun 17, 2004
The new culture vulturesOverviewThe provisions of the Australia - United States of America Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) that apply to the cultural and audiovisual sectors of the...
A Trojan horse?
by John Merson | Jun 17, 2004
The US pharmaceutical industry's trade 'breakthrough'Why does US trade representative Bob Zoellick believe the free trade deal with Australia is a 'breakthrough' for the US...