Archived publication for 1999
Recent publications
Volume 51 Number 4
Bruce Heady and Ruud Muffels on social and economic mobility, the media and the forestry debate, the effectiveness of national gun laws, TV quotas, radioactive waste, health insurance, book reviews and much more....
Media Regulation in Australia and the Public Interest
Reconciliation: What Does it Mean?
In the last few decades, Aborigines have won freedoms long denied to them. The paternal hands of church and state have largely been removed from their lives. They now have to build a new life out of the ruins of dispossession, and with the full...
The Easy Guide to the Republic Proposal
On 6 November 1999, the Australian people will be asked whether to amend the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia so as to replace our current constitutional monarchy with a republic with a President chosen by Federal Parliament.
Risk Assessment and Decision Making for Genetically Modified Foods
The introduction of genetically modified foods has been accompanied by a level of concern in Europe which was not seen in the United States. This is seen as reflecting both a different cultural appraisal of risk, sensitised by the 'mad cow'...
The Challenge of a Deregulated Market
Most of us remember the confident forecasts of 1994 where the world's most prestigious consultancies estimated the shadow price of new generation at something like $38 per MWh. Those forecasts still haunt the smaller consumer as they are the basis...
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Who's ABC? The ABC, Staff Capture and the Obstacles to Accountability
As this IPA Backgrounder shows, the ABC provides a case study of the problems of public ownership.
Volume 51 Number 3
Peter Reith and Kerry Corke on the Referendum, Amnesty International's credibility, The EU's Green Imperialism, Sustainable Development, Petrol Prices, Book Reviews and much more....
Amnesty Infomercial
When Amnesty International was formed in 1961, its charter sought a nobler future for mankind... Today, its time has passed. Rather than attack real abuses of human rights, it has lost sight of its original objectives.