The essential features of the current Defence organisation were established over 30 years ago in peacetime. Today, in a period of high operational activity, this report finds an organisation struggling to deliver administratively when its main focus is on supporting military operations in nine major deployments around the world. The Defence organisation has undoubtedly made...

This study investigates New Zealand's experience with migration from Pacific countries. It updates a similar study by the same two authors in 1995.

The ARC Federation Fellowship scheme has produced positive outcomes for researchers from the humanities, arts and social sciences, but its value could be enhanced.

Scald is a common foliar disease in Victorian barley crops as the majority of current varieties are susceptible. Scald severity varies greatly from crop to crop depending on variety resistance, paddock history and local climate. Scald is more likely to be a problem when a susceptible barley variety is sown into infected stubble from a...

This brief study addresses a number of questions about pragmatism and principle in the context of recent electoral competition between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party of Australia, particularly at the 2004 election. Some of these questions are about priorities, and some are about meanings. How strongly has the incentive to be pragmatic...