The development of an independent Australian voice and policy seemed promising, and several suggested elements leave us with the fond illusion that one exists. However crippling disabilities stand in the way. Independence might be recognised through the shared and clearly […]
This chapter will discuss important conflicts of interest over agricultural development in the Australia-East Timor relationship. East Timor needs to stabilise domestic production, as the central element of its food security strategy. However Australia has a strategic view of global […]
In 1997 the Howard Government gave Australia’s foreign aid program a ‘poverty reduction’ focus with a ‘national interest’ link, later developing ‘good governance’ as the principal program theme. This anticipated the IMF and World Bank’s 1999 abandoning of ‘structural adjustment’ […]
The development of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in New South Wales over the past decade has involved heightened campaigns and substantial changes in management structures. NSW Fisheries was joined by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Premier’s Department, […]
The ‘war against terrorism’ is lauded by dictators, authoritarians and neo-facists around the world. The Pakistani and Burmese military dictatorships have signed up. The Malaysian regime, which has jailed most of its opposition leaders under preventive detention laws, claims its […]
Having abandoned the East Timorese people to invasion and genocide for a quarter of a century, a bewildered Australian Government was forced into military intervention in late 1999, just as that little nation began its final race towards independence. Though […]
Contemporary political economy can make an important contribution to the human rights debates which have come to dominate political relations over the past half century. These debates hide a wide variety of political agendas. The traditions of political economy may […]
This paper analyses eight criminal justice laws applicable in New South Wales – six are matters of state legislation, one is the absence of state legislation and one is a High Court decision. The cases were chosen for their currency […]
‘Deregulation’ has been a powerful catchcry behind a series of major economic policy changes in Australia over the past twenty years. The most recent calls for ‘deregulation’ have been aimed at the broadcast media, the milk industry and the higher […]
This report is a policy and legislation review of developments in youth street rights and the relevant police powers, since the Kids in Justice (Youth Justice Coalition) report of 1990.