Archived publication for 2005 in IPA Backgrounder
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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 Uses and Value of National Parks: Does More Mean Worse?
Politicians are happy to lock up vast areas around the country as national parks, but are not willing to actually maintain them. Instead of continuously expanding the park area, we should be making better use of the parks we already have. "If we...
'Threats' to the Great Barrier Reef
Over the years, we have been told that coral-eating starfish, oil pollution, overfishing, fertilizer runoff, silt, agrichemicals, sewerage, anchor damage, people walking on the reef, ship groundings and global warming were each imminent threats to...
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