This paper offers a snapshot of the current state of media literacy programs. Introduction In 2009 and 2010, people coming and going in a collection of public places in Ukraine saw an unusual set of electronic billboards. “The person who uncovers that which was hidden–that’s a real journalist,” read one, against an image of a...

The key finding of this report by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) is that a commitment is needed by government and industry to invest around $6 billion by 2020 on RD&D on new power generation technologies.

Robyn May, Iain Campbell and John Burgess argue that the Coalition government's next round of industrial relations reform will create further opportunities for employers to 'casualise' jobs. This is one of a series of papers analysing the Howard government's proposed changes to Australia's industrial relations laws, written by seventeen academic researchers in the fields of...

In this paper William Mitchell, Martin Watts and John Burgess argue that governments that have followed the ideas embodied in the OECD approach to economic reform have successfully reduced inflation but worsened the economic outcomes for a vast number of disadvantaged workers.