This submission is written by Professor Stephen Howes, Director of the Development Policy Centre and Mr Jonathan Pryke a researcher at the Centre. Professor Howes has twenty-five years of experience working in and on aid and development in the AsiaPacific region. Formerly Lead Economist for India with the World Bank and Chief Economist with AusAID...

This paper shows that failure to clearly focus on employment beyond Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) can lead to misleading conclusions about employment growth and the effectiveness of government policy aimed at increasing non-CDEP employment.

This report evaluates how effectively New Income Management was rolled out in the Northern Territory.

The latter years of the first decade of the twenty-first century were characterised by an enormous amount of challenge and change to Australia and Australians. Australia’s part in these challenges and changes is borne of our domestic and global ties, our orientation towards ourselves and others, and an ever increasing awareness of the interdependency of...

This collection contains key works by Val Plumwood, who provided a radical critique of traditional Western conceptions of nature. Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992)...