Archived publication for 2005
Recent publications
Why is reform such a challenge?
Australia's Environment Undergoing Renewal, Not Collapse
In his new book Collapse Jared Diamond contends that the Australian environment is generally unproductive and has been irreversibly damaged by European farming, forestry and fisheries practices. Diamond reflects a popular view that is continually...
Deconstructing Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate social responsibility is a political ideology that wants private interests to be subsumed by public interests, narrowly defined.
IPA Submission to the New South Wales Review of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000
The IPA has identified numerous faults in the NSW OHS laws.
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...
Financial Report - 2005
Why do drug dealers live with their mums?
Housing Affordability - Address to HIA
All seven of Australia’s major capital cities are placed in the top dozen least affordable cities.
Volume 57 Number 2
Alan Moran on the economics of nuclear power, Tom Quirk on the disposal of uranium waste, Andrew McIntyre reassesses the culture wars, Gary Johns on why we should care about NGOs, Alan Anderson on a realistic way of looking at terror suspects and...
Report 4. Industrial Awards
Capacity to Manage Index Overall ratings, industrial awards