People & associates
Gary Johns
The NT intervention: what next?
Strife Amid Plenty: Aboriginal policy after land rights
Deconstructing Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate social responsibility is a political ideology that wants private interests to be subsumed by public interests, narrowly defined.
Participatory Democracy: Cracks in the Facade
Participatory democracy assumes that all citizens are political actors and will spend considerable time in defence of their interests and ideas. In fact, democracy is much more elitist - it rests heavily on the idea that people delegate most of...
The NGO Project: Why We Care
What is Labor Thinking?
Informed Giving: Ensuring Charities inform Donors
Australia has a large investment in altruism. This Backgrounder explores a model for charity disclosure and regulation aimed at achieving an informed donor market.
The Protocol: Managing Relations with NGOs
This study examines how the maintenance of relationships between Australian Government Departments and non-government organisations (NGOs) is a growing responsibility of government. This phenomenon is part of a world-wide trend, and there are a...
The Capture of the Myer Foundation
The prestigious and respected Myer Foundation appears to have succumbed to activist ideologies.
Free Kick for Charities
Some charities claim that they should be exempt from any extra scrutiny- even though many of them are supported by the taxpayer. The author begs to differ.