Globalisation represents a lot of different things to a lot of people: parliamentarians, journalists, academics, business leaders and bureaucrats among them. This paper identifies and analyses key questions about globalisation, giving special emphasis to its particular implications for the Asia-Pacific region and for Australia.

This Research Note trilogy (Research Notes 27 - 29, 2001-02) attempts to summarise a large body of literature on conservation, liberalism and socialism.

This Research Note briefly summarises existing and proposed anti-terrorist legislation in Australia, emphasising the inherent competition between safety and liberty.

This Research Note gives a brief account of some interelationships of the mineral sector, the historic Mabo decision and the coming into force of the Native Title Act 1993. The note discusses the cyclical nature of mineral exploration expenditure data and some of the reasons for the cycles.

The passage of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in 1999 involved a fundamental revision of Commonwealth environmental law and has potentially wide ranging application to some areas of private land. This Research Note discusses the thresholds of operation of the Act in relation to listed threatened species and ecological communities.