Archived publication for 2008
Recent publications
Submission to the Select Committee on State Government Financial Management
Intellectual Property Matters
Wheat marketing reform
Submission to the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee Inquiry into the Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 and Wheat Export Marketing (Repeal and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008
Volume 60 Number 2
Richard Allsop on how sport got entangled in the culture wars, Tony Parkinson on Kevin Rudd's Asia hypocrisy, Wolfgang Kasper on the proper way to make policy, Scott Ryan goes behind the stakeholders of health care, Sinclair Davidson asks whether...
The Growth of Australia's Regulatory State: Ideology, accountability and the mega-regulators
Regulation is a political activity. It sets the framework for the market economy by defining the boundaries between private action and government action. Yet those boundaries are not fixed. Australian governments are growing the body of regulation...
Resource adequacy and efficient infrastructure investment
Chapter 11 of Competitive Electricity Markets
The emergence of Australia's electricity market
Int. J. Global Energy Issues, Vol. 29, Nos. 1/2, 2008
Briefing Paper: The politics of wheat
The inconvenient truth of public transport success
Since its privatisation in 1999, Melbourne's public transport system has recorded the largest patronage increases in the country. Sadly, ideological opponents of privatisation will go to any lengths to not only hide this fact, but to actually...
Low emissions technology under threat
At the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting hosted in Bali last December, NGOs were falling over themselves to have their favourite causes included in the proceedings. NGOs have successfully ticketed climate change as the...