In late 2002 a group of leading Australian environmental scientists (the Wentworth Group) proposed a radically new way of managing native vegetation in New South Wales. As a result, the state government introduced bills to implement a new natural resource management regime. Stewart Smith reviews that regime and looks at emerging challenges.

Gareth Griffith reviews the current debate about bills or charters of human rights. He surveys recent developments in those jurisdictions which belong to the Westminster tradition of parliamentary government and which, in their different ways, seek to reconcile the principles of parliamentary supremacy and judicial review – Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the ACT.

Almost 200,000 Australians are believed to have dementia and many more are involved in caring for a family or friend with dementia. Talina Drabsch provides an overview of the prevalence of dementia, now and over the next 50 years, and discusses its economic and social costs. She highlights the impact on the health and aged...

Lenny Roth provides an overview of the main provisions of the federal government’s Work Choices legislation and the current High Court challenge mounted by state governments. He looks at the coverage of new system and at changes to award wages, award conditions, legislative conditions, workplace agreements, constraints on industrial action, dispute resolution procedures and unfair...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. However, this ‘consensus’ science of the IPCC has been disputed. Stewart Smith examines the challenge for governments in assessing this conflicting science to...