A report by Andrew Macintosh and Deb Wilkinson on the likely impact of proposed school voucher schemes has found that they could adversely affect education outcomes and would be expensive to implement. For several years, conservative think tanks and their supporters have been campaigning for the introduction of a school voucher scheme in Australia. Under...

In an address to the Australian Parliamentary Group for Drug Law Reform, Andrew Macintosh discusses recent trends in domestic drug markets and what they say about the effectiveness of current drug policies. In particular three illicit drugs: cannabis, heroin and ethamphetamines as they provide insights into different aspects of the effects of prohibition and have...

Andrew Macintosh challenges one of the central arguments in the federal government?s case for reforming cross-media ownership laws ? that new media sources, particularly the internet, will guarantee pluralism in Australian media. He shows that as little as one per cent of Australians rely on alternative media providers as their main source of news and...

Andrew Macintosh challenges one of the central arguments in the federal government’s case for reforming cross-media ownership laws – that new media sources, particularly the internet, will guarantee pluralism in Australian media. He shows that as little as one per cent of Australians rely on alternative media providers as their main source of news and...

Recent media coverage suggests that Australia is in the grip of a methamphetamine crisis that is bringing our mental health system to the brink of collapse. Andrew Macintosh looks at three questions. How big is the methamphetamine problem? What are the effects of rising methamphetamine use on society, with particular emphasis on mental illness? What...