Archived publication for 2003
Recent publications
NGOs: Chasing the Corporate Dollar
The IPA has often suffered the (false) charge that corporate funding taints the credibility of its arguments. But no-one seems the least worried about activist NGOs and their credibility as they dash for corporate cash.
Pre-empting Terror: Take a Networked Approach
If we are to defeat or contain terrorism, then a coalition of the willing needs to create its own counter-terrorist networks.
'To Join Interest with Duty'
Governements around the world are increasingly turning to the private sector to deliver public services- and it's not restricted to simple contracting-out.
Why Ireland Boomed
Little noticed, perhaps, but Ireland has been the economic success story of the 1990s. How did this happy transformation take place?
Reforming the Regulatory Arrangements for Gas Pipeline Networks
Volume 55 Number 2
Why Greens tell porkies; Jennifer Marohasy on the non-science of the Murray River; Andrew McIntyre on the BBC and Tasmanian forestry; Joe Kaplinsky on intellectual property rights; Bernard Salt on Generation Y; Gerard Boyce on pattern agreements;...
A Fatal Glitch in the IR 'Matrix'
NECA's current challenge to restrictive cluses in pattern agreements is more than just another IR stoush.
Baby Boomer Culture Get its Comeuppance
The baby boomers seem to have had it pretty much their own way for a long time- until Generation Y started to flex its youthful muscles.
'BBC World' Calls 'Timber!' on Credibility
The BBC's appalling coverage of Tasmanian forest management has not gone unpunished- in England. Pity it's unlikely ever to happen here.
Beyond Philanthropy Lies Compulsion
Increased calls for corporate social responsibility are little more that ambit claims which impose significant costs on corporations and the community alike.