It's An Evil Thing to Oblige People to Vote
Kim Beazley has said, ‘We don’t have compulsory voting in Australia. … The people who go out and put this claptrap argument up, that it’s an evil thing to oblige people to vote, well of course it is and nobody does.’ Well, nobody other than the Parliament, the Electoral Act, the Australian Electoral Commission, the courts and ultimately the criminal justice system.
Derek Chong, Sinclair Davidson and Tim Fry

The Roads to Serfdom
The growing spirit of collectivism in Britain during the war provoked an Austrian economist who had taken refuge there, F. A. von Hayek, to write a polemical counterblast to the trend: The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944. It is his observations of the moral and psychological effects of the collectivist ideal that, 60 years later, capture the imagination.
Theodore Dalrymple

Why Still Worry About the Capital Account Surplus?
An arbitrary percentage of GDP is not the right measure of an unsustainable current account deficit, argues Tony Makin

Restoration and Revolution: Understanding Post-Totalitarianism
The totalitarian destruction of civil society left the nomenklatura in power, explains Aviezer Tucker

Preaching to the Converted: The Limits of Religious Arguments in Politics
Religious believers should make secular arguments, says Jonathan Crowe

The Rule of Lawyers
A Bill of Rights could lead to an elected judiciary, argues Alan Anderson

War of the Words
The Poverty Wars
by Peter Saunders (SPRC)
reviewed by Peter Saunders (CIS)

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The Latham Diaries
by Mark Latham
Reviewed by Charles Richardson

Losing It: The Inside Story of the Labor Party in Opposition
by Annabel Crabb
Reviewed by Richard Allsop

The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime
by Jeffrey Sachs
Reviewed by Helen Hughes

Selling the Australian Government: Politics and Propaganda from Whitlam to Howard
By Greg Barns
Reviewed by Philip Senior

Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism
By George Crowder
Reviewed by Christian Porter

Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan & the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars
By Peter Hartcher
Reviewed by Stephen Kirchner