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	Summer 2004-05 Contents

	Unfinished Business: Reforming Our Intelligence Agencies If Australia is to detect and precent the next terrorist atrocity, or to make the right judgement calls over issues of war and peace, then the starting point must be to have the best possible intelligence. Based on the record of the last few years, there is clearly room for improvement. Peter Jennings

	Is Economic Growth Given Too High a Priority? If economic growth is a fetish it would be reasonable to expec that people in high income countries would be no more satisfied with their financial situation than people in low income countries. However, the evidence suggests otherwise. Winton Bates Locked In: Australia Gets a Bad Intellectual Property Deal The intellectual property provisions of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement are an unfortunate policy shift. Kimberlee Weatherall A Labour Market Fable Economic tales are not always good guides to policy. Alex Robson Taxation with Misrepresentation For those households that minimise their 'sin' taxes the Australian system is very progressive. Indeed based on an analysis such as this, one could almost claim that the only regressive component of the Australian tax system is the 'sin' taxes. Sinclair Davidson

	The Economics and Etiquette of Tipping Unfortunately for tipping, a number of studies point toward a positive but weak relationship between service quality and the amount tipped. Steen Videbeck

	Life and Death in Baniyala Jeness Warin speaks to Aboriginal leader, Djambawa Marawili

	Anthony de Jasay on Justice and Liberty Justice and its Surroundings by Anthony de Jasay Reviewed by Wolfgang Kasper Habits of the Mind and Habits of the Heart The Road to Modernity: The British French and American Enlightenment by Gertrude Himmelfarb Reviewed by Barry Maley

	*View all* *The Right Nation*: Conservative Power in America by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge Reviewed by Martin Sheehan *The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terrorism* by Michael Ignatieff Reviewed by Nicholas Southwood *Australian Citizenship* by Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts Reviewed by D.J Good-Sir Cullen *Rebels with a Cause: Independents in Australian Politics* by Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin Reviewed by Peter Taft *State-building: Governance and World Order in the Twenty-First Century* by Francis Fukuyama Reviewed by Susan Windybank
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