Archived publication for 2006
Recent publications
The long First World War
John Roskam reviews The Great War by Les Carlyon (Macmillan Australia, 2006, 880 pages) History is usually about ‘what happened next'. Events are important, not only because they happened, but because they lead to something else. And so it...
Industrial Relations and the struggle to build in Victoria
How important have federal industrial relations reforms been to the people of Victoria and the Victorian Government? If the reforms had been introduced at the beginning of the Bracks/Brumby government it's feasible that Eastlink could have been...
Volume 58 Number 4
Richard Allsop on the Seven Up! series, Tom Switzer on bias in the ABC, Wolfgang Kasper on EU & UN folly, Rodney Croome on gay marriage, Chris Berg on the competition law and software design, Alan Moran on electricity privatisation and much...
Address: Impact and Outcome of Regulation on the Economy
Regulation stops people spending their money, offering their services, building, playing and so on in the way they might otherwise choose.
Back to Basics: Why government funding of science is a waste of our money
The notion that throwing an infinite amount of money at public research will somehow, at some time, automatically lead to some benefit is a myth. The government spends a substantial amount on public science and innovation. It is not clear that any...
Greed WAS good: Australia since the 1980s
In 2006, with a renewed national focus on improvements to Australia’s tax and industrial relations systems, it is worthwhile revisiting the last great period of reform...
The Politics of a Tragedy: The Gretley Mine Disaster and NSW OHS
2007 SA State Budget Opportunity Squandered
Since 2000, GST revenue distributed to the States has increased at an average annual rate of more than 9 per cent-a huge and unexpected gain. As a result, South Australia is awash with money at levels unanticipated by the architects of the new tax...
Australia's 13 biggest mistakes
October 2006, Volume 58, Number 3 Introduction:. Far from the wars of Old Europe, relatively immune to the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century, and endowed with ample land and resources to fit a country many times our population,...