Policy Archives

Claustrophobia

WHILE THE WORLD watched Ian Thorpe race Pieter van den Hoogenband in the hundred metres freestyle final at the...

Precautions for the day after tomorrow

CLIMATE CHANGE IS both a major policy issue and a part of popular culture. For many, it has become...

Open doors or prison walls?

I'M ONE OF the lucky ones. Part of the baby-boom generation, I benefited from postwar economic prosperity and government...

By Ross Homel

Condemned to innovate

OVER THE PAST 30 years, the level at which disadvantaged schools have been funded has increased and there has...

By Richard Teese

Fighting a political virus

The world's failure to control the HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the greatest scandals of our times. The global...

By Bill Bowtell

Nihilistic consequences of humanism

I wish to put a series of propositions about the rise of fundamentalisms – Islamic, Christian and Jewish –...

By John Carroll

Beyond the pathology

In Western discourse, fundamentalism is usually assumed to be a bad thing. This may be unhelpful and limit our...

By Wayne Hudson

Lives of the Australian undead

Even if it be better for certain individuals to govern, they should be made only guardians and ministers of...

By Chas Savage

Women who have and have not

Van was told to do "hot tea" with the man, which meant she had warm tea in her mouth...

By Georgina Costello

Community despite geography

FOR AN INCREASING number of us among the million in our diaspora, the penny has dropped, big time. Australia...

By Anne MacGregor

Imagining an international Australia

AUSTRALIANS RIGHTLY SPEND much time discussing multiculturalism, yet rarely speak of Australian internationalism. Over the last few decades, however,...

By Andrew Leigh

Calling Australia home

AUSTRALIA IS A quintessential immigrant society. With nearly a quarter of the population born in other countries, few nations...

By Graeme Hugo