Through a detailed comparison with Canada and New Zealand, Melanie Durette demonstrates that the Australian government's approach to Indigenous customary and commercial fishing rights stands outside developments in other Commonwealth countries. The paper focuses on commercial fishing in particular as an opportunity for Indigenous people to more fully realise their economic rights.

The city comprises a milieu of competing and complementary property rights, ranging from the individual to the communal. Whilst property rights provide a coherent legal, economic and social framework for the relationship between people, place and property, they are often misunderstood and misinterpreted by the multiplicity of stakeholders sharing the space that is the contemporary...

The report examines the connection between drug use and crime and uses data from a survey of prisoners to determine the risk factors in the likelihood of escalating to regular offending and the intervention and treatment options with the greatest chance of diverting this development.

Whilst property votes are normally regarded as a relic dating back to an age before mass democracy, they persist in local government elections in much of Australia writes Marian Sawer. Their continued existence is an affront to most modern conceptions of democracy. Australia often prides itself on being a pioneering democracy—noted for inventions such as...

Phil Day outlines a proposal to collect taxes on increases in property values deriving from the 'betterment' brought about by government decisions, and applying these funds to public policy expenditure.