Punching Above our Weight
Maintaining Australian Power and Influence
The relative decline of Australia's 'hard power' will have serious consequences for our future influence in the region and the world. Economic and population growth will be vital to maintaining our international strength.
Paul Kelly

Australia's Older and Wealthier Future
An ageing population need not lead to lower living standards, but it does raise issues of intergenerational equity argues Ross Guest

The Politics of Protection
Public Opinion Can Favour Liberalising Trade
Protectionist sentiment in Australia does not run as deep as is commonly believed, for public attitudes to freer trade are more pragmatic than ideological, Andrew Norton reports

Does Size Matter?
Tuvalu and Nauru Compared
Tuvalu and Nauru are both small Pacific states, but Nauru has been badly misgoverned, argue Helen Hughes and Steven Gosarevski

Out of the Tax Wilderness
The rule of law is collapsing in the Australian tax system. Geoffrey de Q. Walker suggests some ways to rebuild it.

The Policy Shift the Media Missed
Australia's Emerging National Security Strategy
Peter Jennings looks at the structure and overlapping of bureaucracy in Canberra, and how bureaucracy currently defines the content of policy advice to Canberra, rather than the other way around.

A Broad but Not Infinite Church
The Meanings of Liberalism
Gregory Melleuish and Imre Salusinszky shed light on the misuse and slippery labelling of the word 'liberal', and how it encompasses a broad depth of definition, but is not a label to be bandied about, as its critics do.

Third Sector Blues
The Political Economy of the Voluntary Sector: A Reappraisal of the Comparative Institutional Advantage of Voluntary Organisations.
by Brian E. Dollery and Joe L. Wallis
Reviewed by Martin Stewart-Weeks

The Private Provision of All Security
The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production
edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Reviewed by Wolfgang Kasper

Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens
by Julian le Grand Reviewed by Andrew Leigh

Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
by Bruce Caldwell Reviewed by Jeremy Shearmur

Platypus and Parliament: The Australian Senate in Theory and Practice
by Stanley Bach Reviewed by Peter van Onselen

Making Australian Foreign Policy
by Allan Gyngell and Michael Wesley Reviewed by A.D. McLennan

The Howard Years
edited by Robert Manne Reviewed by Gregory Melleuish