In the 2010 federal elections, the debate over Australia's population surfaced once again. Groups concerned with the impacts of a growing population have focused on the life source of any settlement: water. However, despite the myths and reignited fears, Australia has the water resources and technologies to support the population growth that is forecasted. Rebecca...

Malaysia's four decade old affirmative action social and economic experiment has failed, argues this report.

The meeting of the 27 EU member states this Thursday will do nothing to solve the crisis of Europeargues German economist Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich. No matter how many rescue packages are announced or meetings held, the current European crisis is the beginning of the decline of the European model. ‘The current attempts to rescue...

Reestablishing local hospital boards is wrongly described as a quick fix for the problems in the Australian public hospital system. The trilogy of essays in this collection describes the negative impact the bureaucratisation of the system has had on staff and patients in the last 30 years. The authors argue that unless accountable pro bono...

Should Australia’s population grow to more than 35 million people by the middle of the 21st century? The 2010 Intergenerational Report sparked a controversy over its suggestion that we are heading for a ‘Big Australia’ in the coming decades.This report looks behind the headline figures to highlight potential outcomes based on different assumptions about fertility...