The price of fear: Dialogue 2010 volume 29 number 2

20 August 2010Latest issue of the Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. This edition includes articles by Tim Lindsey, Michael Kirby and Riaz Hassan

Table of contents
  • President's Report - Barry McGaw
  • The Price of Fear
    • Life as a Weapon: Making Sense of Suicide Bombings
      Riaz Hassan
    • Fear, Asylum, and Hansonism in Australian Politics
      William Maley
    • Alien Fears: Politics and Immigration Control
      Mary Crock
    • 'Preposterous Caricatures': Fear, Tokenism, Denial and the Australia-Indonesia Relationship
      Tim Lindsey
    • Fear: Crime and Punishment
      Chris Cunneen
    • AIDS and Religion: 'This Wave of Hate Must Stop'
      Michael Kirby
  • Books
    • Genetics of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
      Mark A Bellgrove
  • Academy News and Workshop Reports
    • An Ethics for Living in the Anthropocene
      Katherine Gibson, Ruth Fincher and Deborah Bird Rose
    • Philanthropy and Public Culture: The influence and legacies of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in Australia
      Kate Darian-Smith, Julie McLeod and Glenda Sluga
    • Unsettling the Settler State: Creativity and resistance in Indigenous-Settler state governance
      Morgan Brigg, Sarah Maddison and Jon Altman
  • Roundtable Reports

The journal is only available to download in full, not as individual pdf files.

Noticeboard

07 February 2012
The Productivity Commission has been asked to report within 8 months on Default Superannuation Funds in Modern Awards. The inquiry covers the design of criteria for the selection and ongoing assessment of superannuation funds for nomination as default funds in modern awards.
20 December 2011

Arts Minister Simon Crean has announced an independent review of the Australia Council for the Arts ahead of the development of the nation's first National Cultural Policy in almost 20 years.

20 December 2011

On 18 November 2011, Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator the Hon Kate Lundy, announced the establishment of an independent panel of eminent community leaders to conduct an inquiry into Australian Government services to ensure they are responsive to the needs of Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.