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Autumn 2002 Contents
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Private Risk, Public Service Gary L. Sturgess
In Britain, the Labour Party has largely eschewed privatisation and outsourcing, but has embraced public-private parternships (PPPs). What about PPPs for Australia?

The Market for Tradition Andrew Norton
'Traditionalists' may baulk, but market reform of higher education is the best way of maintaining and improving both the 'traditionalist' and the vocational university.

Funding School Choice: Vouchers or Tax Credits: A Response to Buckingham John Humphreys
School choice reforms offer the best hope for improving schooling in Australia. Here the case is made for education vouchers over a tax credit system.

Private Education: What the Poor Can Teach Us James Tooley
The poor of India are pulling their children out of poorly performing state schools and sending them private schools run by educational entrepreneurs.

Islam and Islamism: Faith and Ideology Daniel Pipes
Islam and its fundamentalist version, Islamism are distinct from one another for Islam transforms faith into a collective political ideology.

 
  On Prudence and Restraint in Foreign Policy
Susan Windybank talks to Owen Harries, Editor Emeritus of The National Interest, about the need for restraint in foreign policy, the war on terrorism and Australia/US relations.
 
 

The Labelling Game Michael Warby
Misused and abused, political labels become bereft of meaning and corrupt political debate.

A New Name for an Old Whig Samuel Gregg
Hayek once desribed himself as an 'unrepentent Old Whig'—with the stress on the 'old'.

Quo Vadis Australia? Ian Harper
In the global market, Australia's future lies in the bounty of the mind, rather than the bounty of the land.

 
  Between Principles and Practice: Liberalism and the Liberal Party by J.R. Nethercote (ed.)
Reviewed by David Lovell
 
  Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism by Brink Lindsay - reviewed by Christian Gillitzner
The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction
by Guy Rundle - reviewed by Gregory Melleuish
Middle Class Welfare by James
Cox
Poverty and Welfare Dependancy
by David Green - reviewed by Peter Saunders

The Psychology of Happiness
by Michael Argyle - reviewed by Richard Tooth
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
by Mark Lilla - reviewed by Martin Sheehan
The Frontiers of Legal Theory
by Richard Posner - reviewed by Michael Rush
 
 

Economic Freedom in Australia Wolfgang Kasper
Australia's economic freedom records a "freedom deficit'.


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