This edition of the Academy's journal, Dialogue. features four articles on religion and contemporary Australian life: • Belief and Disbelief in Australia – James Jupp • The Apology, the Secular and the Theologico–Political – Michael Fagenblat • ‘May we each be faithful to the light that we have already gained’: Some Perspectives on Modern Theosophy...

The issue of public service responsiveness to ministers has been described as a ‘hardy perennial’ of public service ethics. Too much responsiveness implies a public service that has become compliant to the point of subordinating its professional integrity to the political needs of ministers. Too little, implies a public service that ignores its duty to...

In the next 20 years, the only potential sources of increases in labour supply are increased labour force participation rates and immigration. While the Australian government is attempting to increase participation, the impacts of this policy, highly desirable as they are where they are the result of improved work choices, are likely to be small...

If we want to understand how children learn to read (and why some find this so difficult), we first need to identify the set of reading skills that children will need to acquire. That in turn means that we first need to understand skilled reading – we need to know exactly what are the cognitive...