Origins of the research In August 2001 members of the Prison Reform Group of Western Australia and the combined Social Justice Commissions of the Uniting Church of Australia and the Anglican and Catholic Churches gathered together at the decommissioned Fremantle Jail to commemorate International Prisoners’ Justice Day. Their focus that year was on the plight...

Examining the separatist dispute between Aceh and Indonesia, David Brown argues that the 'instrumentalist' explanation for separatist nationalism, as a rational response to relative deprivation and exploitation, fails to explain the intransigent element in demands for independence. Brown argues that such absolutism can be explained in terms of the ideologising impact of social disruption, and...

This paper suggests that Australia’s existing environmental laws and regulations are inadequate to protect biodiversity when it comes in direct competition with determined urban expansion.

The new small and medium sized businesses that are a by-product of this corporate restructuring use spatial networks instead of hierarchy (e.g. vertical and horizontal integration) to address agency problems and reduce transaction costs.

An account of the Aboriginal history of the Pilbara.