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Threats, challenges & change

Threats, challenges & change

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 of the clarity of the recognition of current problems and their causes, and the...
Peace building in West Papua

Peace building in West Papua

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 between individuals, groups and communities. CPACS was established in 1988 as a...
One hundred years of arbitration

One hundred years of arbitration

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 log of claims on behalf of the Merchant Service Guild. Opposing him was the counsel for the...
In defence of Dr Herbert Vere Evatt

In defence of Dr Herbert Vere Evatt

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 group that had for many years white-anted and weakened the labour movement. He put the...
Broadband v. narrowband economics

Broadband v. narrowband economics

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 dark. It may be the case that two theories highlight the same aspects of some corner...
Ten devils in the detail

Ten devils in the detail

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 agricultural tariffs but community organisations became concerned when US negotiators identified...