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Volume 58 Number 3
Australia's 13 biggest mistakes, Peter Phelps on anti-Americanism, Alan Moran on myths in public transport, Richard Evans on liberty during the Depression, Jennifer Marohasy on the loss of the Baiji, and much more...
Who pays? Political donations and democratic accountability
All sides of politics share a fear of governments held hostage to wealthy individuals or organisations that use donations to buy influence.
Defending the cause of liberty during the Great Depression
It was in an atmosphere of crisis that three works of Australian history of remarkable quality appeared in quick succession.
The public transport myth
Transport and urban planning generally is the last redoubt of the socialism much admired by yesteryears’ elites.
Moderm campaigning and the federal system
Whereas campaigning used to be largely confined, for most MPs, to the five or six weeks of the campaign, now it is a continuous process.
International Labour Organisation finally faces reality
For the first time, the peak body of world-wide labour regulators accepted that labour regulations should not interfere in commercial transactions.
The loss of the baiji
You have probably never heard of the baijiâ€â€the graceful, grey dolphin endemic to the Yangtze River with tiny eyes and a long narrow beak. If you ever visit China, chances are you will never see one.
The Greenpeace attack on development in Papua New Guinea
Any nation, of whatever size or characteristics, has to be free to utilise whatever natural resources, labour or other assets it has been granted by geographic luck.
Americans are from Pluto
Not since the mid-1980s has it been so respectableâ€â€indeed fashionableâ€â€to hate America.
Contains cheese: Food labelling and healthy eating in Australia
What is the evidence that more or different labelling will have an effect in reducing obesity or any other food-related problem?