This review provides a brief overview of Indigenous people's issues faced by the mining industry as it seeks to gain access to land, carry out exploration and, if successful, develop and manage a mining operation.

The quest for democracy shouldn’t obscure the real lessons of Iraq, argues Clive Hamilton.

The trial of the accused terrorist, Australian David Hicks, is due to start before a United States Military Commission in March 2005. This research note provides a brief factual background on the Military Commissions and summarises the key developments to date in the pre-trial proceedings.

The intense debate over the war in Iraq and American foreign policy has raised age-old questions about the rights and wrongs of intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states, the pre-emptive use of force and the 'export' of democracy, but there has been little attempt to acknowledge and confront the special difficulties of discussing...

America's remarkable military, economic and political power provided it with the opportunity to profoundly influence the development of the international system, but the precise way this has happened has owed a great deal to the efforts and ideas of a surprisingly small coterie of intellectuals, the inauguration of a political regime in Washington that was...