Archived publication for 2000 in Occasional Paper
Recent publications
Clough Lecture 1999: Private Conservation
Despite what one tends to read or hear, the gains in environmental quality around the world in the last few decades have been astounding. People are living longer, the air is getting cleaner, and agriculture is getting more productive, freeing up...
Numerology and the Media
The media's fascination with large and/or round numbers can get in the way of meaningful reporting.
Outworkers speak out
The proposed introduction of Fair Employment Bill by the Victorian Government has caused a lot of confusion and fear among local Victorian clothing ‘manufacturers' and ‘outworkers'.
Broadcasting Planning and Entrenched Protection of Incumbent Broadcasters
Broadcasting planning and licensing should be primarily a technical function facilitating orderly operation of broadcasting services. Instead, policy makers and regulators have used it as a tool for economic control of the nature and rate of...
Wind Power and Other Renewables
In relation to combating the supposed global warming trend, environmentalists are fond of saying, ‘If nuclear is the answer, we are asking the wrong question’.