Nicole Billante argues that a visible police presence in the community and increased police resources must form a key part of a crime prevention strategy in Australia. She analyses successful policing initiatives which have dramatically reduced crime in America and Britain, to argue that Australian policy makers and police should take note if this country's...

Peter Saunders and Kayoko Tsumori outline a proposal to move lone parents whose children are at school off welfare and into work as part of a broader strategy of poverty eradication. Getting sole parents into work would greatly reduce poverty, since joblessness is the biggest cause of poverty. The current system which pays parents to...

Kayoko Tsumori argues that 'earnings credit', proposed by the 'Five Economists' in 1998 will not sufficiently decrease joblessness in Australia, and may in fact encourage welfare dependency. The earnings credit, though disguised as a tax credit, is just another form of welfare benefit. She suggests that raising the tax free threshold is a far more...

Professor Hughes analyses the causes of economic stagnation that are making the Pacific islands an 'arc of instability' threatening Australia's security. Aid, far from helping the Pacific to grow, has damaged it, making it possible for Pacific governments to pursue extravagant policies unsuitable for small island economies. As a result, Professor Hughes calls for a...

Opponents of university fees have linked declining fertility to student debt, to justify lower charges under the Higher Education Scheme (HECS). Andrew Norton argues that HECS has no impact on fertility - university educated people have fewer children, whether they are paying HECS or not. HECS cuts constitute inefficient policy, for they would reward equally...