Rodolfo Severino provides an international perspective on Australia's attitude to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia. More enthusiasm and less reluctance on Canberra's part would have strengthened not undermined Australia's stature in… more
Health: Did you know?
Dr James Gillespie examines voter attitudes to health care at the last three federal elections. ‘Did you know?’ is published every two weeks and aims to increase awareness on a… more
Australia and the World: On Amity and Co-operation
James Gallaway interviews Singapore's former ambassador to the UN, Kishore Mahbubani, on Australia's back flip on the Treaty of Amity and Co-operation and his expectations for the East Asian Summit later this year.
Values & principles: Where do we go from here?
Vern Hughes discusses how the Right's work to increase the role of the market, and the Left's the role of the state, has contracted the space available for civil society and devalued the level of… more
Values & Principles: Elizabeth Evatt and Jane Caro
Elizabeth Evatt discusses the fundamental nature of human rights and their importance in a modern, compassionate society. She, thus, demonstrates how their negligence in Australian legislation (as seen with the mandatory detention of refugees) represents… more
Medicare Safety Nets
Stephen Leeder and Anne-Marie Boxall on the proposed changes to Medicare and the lack of dissent surrounding them
Did You Know?
Health facts and priorities each fortnight from the Centre for Policy Development and the Australian Health Policy Institute
Respect for Rule of Law and Human Rights
Elizabeth Evatt discusses the fundamental nature of human rights and their importance in a modern, compassionate society
The Value of Simplicity: Flat tax?
One of the universal burdens today is the increasing level of complexity in everyone's lives. From the poor to the rich, everything seems to be hard to understand, time consuming and bureaucratic. Business has pushed… more