Gary Banks presented a lecture at the Australian National University as part of the public lecture series of the Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics and the Faculty of Economics and Commerce.

Inaugural lecture in the ANZSOG-ANU Public Lecture series, The Shine Dome, Academy of Science, Canberra, 23 February 2005. Rod Rhodes discusses whether Westminster is past its sell-buy date. Everyone agrees that Australia and Britain are changing - but from what to what? This lecture looks at such changes in Britain as membership of the European...

One way to understand the value of sporting 'superstars' is to examine the effect they have on match attendances and revenue. Arguably, the most famous sports star in Australia was Sir Donald Bradman, whose batting average has far exceeded that of any cricket players. Julian Blackham and Bruce Chapman examine the value of Bradman by...

The international community founded the United Nations in 1945 as the centrepiece of an ambitious institutional strategy to prevent the recurrence of world war, global depression, and massive humanitarian crises. Sixty years later the world is again confronting multiple governance challenges, none of which can be met through unilateral or bilateral means alone, and the...

Nicole George asks whether new insights can be gained by differentiating between advocacy and activism when examining the work of civil society organisations in relation to gender equality. Focusing upon the ways in which women's organisations in Fiji approach issues of gender equality, she contrasts strategies employed in the 1960s and 1970s with those adopted...