Malalai Joya is described by the BBC as the most famous woman in Afghanistan and at 28 years of age is the youngest member of the Afghani Parliament. Joya is a controversial figure, reviled by many Afghani fundamentalists yet viewed by others as a freedom fighter and heroine in contemporary Afghanistan. She has made her...

In this lecture Barbara Pocock explores the connections between work, care and justice. She argues that Australia is currently missing the opportunity to build a better society that is happier and more sustainable for its citizens in the longer term. Australian governments – of all political colours – are mis-reading the current political and demographic...

In a critique of the Australian values education project Sue Knight and Carol Collins argue that as it stands, the required ‘common values’ approach cannot succeed in developing students’ capacity for sound moral judgement. While those of us who have been working in this area for many years welcome this emphasis on and support for...

This paper offers a description of and a contribution to a theory about the sector of out-of-school (non-formal) educational provision for young people. Focusing particularly on arts and culturally based activities, Julian Sefton-Green surveys the forms and structures of such provision and explores how it is used in a range of policy contexts, especially those...

September 11 has revived the impetus to advance democracy and foster freedom around the globe. While advancing democracy remains a worthy foreign policy goal, writes Daniel Baldino, it will often take a protracted period to judge whether the use of external power and foreign assistance can bring peace and democracy or indeed ameliorate the conditions...