15 March 2010Althrough the global financial crisis proved to be more of a slowdown than a recession in Australia and that the economy improved throughout 2009, this report finds that more people felt their personal circumstances had declined.
15 March 2010For over sixty years Australia has done well out of a US-led world, according to this report. Our strategic interests would be well served by Obama’s successfully rebuilding US primacy.
24 February 2010This week's summit aims to save the embattled healthcare overhaul through the power of persuasion, writes Lesley Russell in Inside Story
27 January 2010The lack of Australian cultural diplomacy in China has ramifications which reach far beyond the cultural sector, writes Dan Edwards in New Matilda.
15 March 2010From the Vietnam War to the Afghanistan War, from international law to the treatment of refugees, Mr Fraser discusses the meaning of liberalism in the global context.
05 March 2010While expanding populations and the changing diets that accompany growing wealth have put greater strain on lagging gains in food production, climate change and environmental degradation are slowly contaminating food supplies and eroding agricultural productivity.
19 March 2010This comparison provides background to the evolution of workers' compensation arrangements in two jurisdictions and discusses the way that each scheme deals with coverage, benefits, return to work provisions, self-insurance, common law, dispute resolution and cross-border arrangements.
26 February 2010This report identifies the way the region's physical and geographical characteristics combine with limited human and technological capacity to reduce the ability of states to undertake day-to-day policing and respond effectively to large scale breakdowns in law and order.
28 January 2010This anual selection of writing from ANU scholars ranges from archaeology, linguistics and history to economics, political science and security policy.
19 February 2010After two years and a whirlwind of activity in Australia's foreign affairs, what has Kevin Rudd got to show for all his global ambition?
04 January 2010This is a discussion of the evolving cybersecurity challenges, the role of the national communications infrastructure, and the need to bolster innovation.
15 March 2010This paper develops a model to estimate the value of returning to a university degree and the causal effect of a university education on earnings in China.
09 March 2010This final report of the Baird review of the legislation that governs international education in Australia makes a series of recommendations for reform.
27 November 2009This site provides quick facts and figures, cultural policy profiles and updates, key documents, profiles of the national experts, partner resources on 41 countries within Europe.
Edited by Ying Zhu, Michael Keane, and Ruoydon Bai
University of Washington Press
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution, and consumption of TV drama, an international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The collection explores industry dynamics, how TV dramas are marketed and consumed on DVD, and China's aspirations to export its television drama rights.
China's transformation has been patiently, methodically and very deliberately constructed by a leadership group that has equally carefully protected its monopoly on power.
The handbook, produced by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, contains a compilation of international laws and good practices developed to combat human trafficking.
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