This paper is about a speech that David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party, gave at the 47th Munich Security Conference in Germany in February 2011. The Munich Conference is an annual event at which political leaders from around the globe gather to discuss policy on security. Cameron...

This paper is focused on the discourse of social harmony and intercultural understanding within local governance that is central to managing ethnic and religious diversity and the tolerance of dissent in countries with white majority cultures.

This study provides information about the factors that influence the participation of families in paid employment and their communities more broadly. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 59 households (involving 71 individuals) across Broadmeadows in Victoria, Mansfield Park in South Australia, and Carole Park near Goodna in Queensland. These suburbs - along with Angle Park in...

In this lecture to the Australian Senate Peter Mares argues that our thinking about migration has not caught up with recent changes in policy, particularly the rise in temporary migration.

Australia's mining boom heralds an unprecedented opportunity to establish a sovereign wealth fund that can be used to help eliminate indigenous disadvantage. Australia is experiencing what may be the largest and longest commodities boom in its history. Through a sovereign wealth fund built on budget surpluses generated by the boom, we could tackle some of...