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The
Great Divide: Sydney or the Bush David Trebeck
The bush is going bust while the cities boom. This
seems to be the popular perception of what is often referred
to as a rural crisis. Yet it is by no means all doom and gloom.
Indeed, the popular view is very damaging to rural and regional
interests.
Tilting
at Windmills: Regional Development Policy Tony
Sorenson
The Federal Government seems to be treating rural and regional Australia
as a homogeneous entity in both problem and policy terms.
Yet broadbrush measures like the recent pledge of $1.8 billion
to the regions could do more harm than good.
Two
Steps Forward, One Step Back: New Zealand's Shaky Economic
Constitution Wolfgang Kasper
The re-regulation of labour by New ZealandÍs minority government not
only reflects what AustraliaÍs Labor opposition is contemplating,
but also demonstrates how easily the economic reforms of the
1980s and 1990s can be overturned.
Back
to the Future: Lessons from New Zealand's Past Ronald
Trotter
Many New Zealanders mistakenly blame the economic reforms of the 1980s
and 1990s for social problems such as family breakdown, unemployment
and crime. They should take another look at the ïgood old
daysÍ without rose-tinted glasses.
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