Archived publication for February 2008
Recent publications
Submission to the review into Comcare
Top of the class: Making the most of Western Australia's school system
Policy makers now have a deeper awareness of the importance of good schools in underpinning economic prosperity. Western Australian schools enjoy a relatively high level of public funding support. On the other hand, WA has higher cost pressures...
Volume 60 Number 1
Christian Kerr on Kevin Rudd's first months, Ken Phillips on the skills shortage, Alan Moran on the Bali show-and-tell, Chris Berg on dystopia, Stefan Theil on the poverty of European economics education, James Campbell on the how the Tories got...
History as if policy mattered
On tariffs and immigration, party reputations don't match their records.
In defence of David Cameron
How the Tories have gotten past soul searching in opposition
The world is getting better
Goddamn you all to hell: The revealing politics of dystopian movies
‘There is, of course, every reason to view the next century with fear,' wrote a New York Times film reviewer in 1976 after having watched the Charlton Heston vehicle Soylent Green. Smug pessimism of this type is hardly unusual in political...
Editorials & Table of Contents, March 2008
Rudd's first months
How the government and unions help maintain Australia's skills shortage
Australia is in the first phase of a demographically induced labour crunch. Labour shortages are not in the distance but are already upon us and will become worse.