The Brain Drain: Why New Zealanders Are Voting With Their Feet Roger Kerr
People decide to migrate on the basis of push and pull factors, in which an overall judgement of whether a country is going in the right direction is an important element. The current outflows of people from New Zealand suggest that policymakers have taken a wrong turn.

De-nationalising Money: The Emergence of Brand Capital Jerry Jordan
The falling costs of information and communication technologies make it increasingly easy for individuals to compare the quality of money and therefore to choose whatever currency they wich to use as a medium of exchange and as a store of value—if governments let them.

The Politics of Envy: Poverty and Income Distribution Helen Hughes
Poverty should be eradicated as far as possible for it undermines equality of opportunity, especially for children. The extent of povery in Australia, however, has been exaggerated in part because analyses rely in misleading data on income and expenditure estimates.

The Rights Trap: How a Bill of Rights Could Undermine Freedom Bob Carr
A bill of rights would unduly politicise the judiciary by turning judges into policymakers. The main beneficiaries would be lawyers, who profit from the legal fees it generates, and the criminals who manage to escape imprisonment on the grounds of a technicality.