Worldwide demand for energy will be more than 50% greater by 2030 if governments continue their present energy policies. Australia is a net exporter of energy, and is well placed to meet this demand. Australia has significant reserves of coal, and has 36% of the world’s low cost uranium reserves. This paper by Stewart Smith...

John Wilkinson surveys the evidence on the role and character of the NSW tourism industry in a national context, and the opportunities and constraints faced by the industry.

The NSW government has announced that it will amend the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act to enable the Department of Community Services to apply to the Children’s Court to enter into parental responsibility contracts with parents of children who are at risk of neglect. Lenny Roth outlines the planned amendments and surveys...

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.