Information and communications technologies are increasingly important in the Australian political landscape. From the adoption of new forms of electoral campaigning to the use of networking technology to organise social movements, media technology has the potential to radically change the way politics is conducted and experienced in this country. The first comprehensive volume on the...

The Doha climate talks in December 2012, wrapped up lines of negotiation that were begun years before in Bali. Negotiators resolved contentious questions about the future of the Kyoto Protocol and finally put the constraints of the Bali agenda behind them. Now they need turn to developing by 2015 a new agreement under the United...

A recent police operation in the Northern Territory community of Borroloola invites reflection on best practice for community policing and alcohol management.

This report examines the impact of the global financial crisis on the degree of international income and consumption risk-sharing among industrial economies using returns on cross-border portfolio holdings (e.g., debt, equity, FDI). It splits the returns from the net foreign holdings as receipts (inflows) and payments (outflows) to investigate which of the two sides exhibited...

This paper explores the critical role that data can play in development scenarios when Aboriginal people are in control of collecting, managing and interpreting data.