POLICY SUMMER 2011 VOL. 27 NO. 4

FEATURE: Ideology and Indigenous Policy
Sara Hudson
Biased policies have prevented remote Indigenous Australians from embracing change and moving forward.

FEATURE: A Prescription for Pharmacy Reform
Terry Barnes
Pharmacists’ stranglehold on PBS is anti-competitive.

FEATURE: Separation of Mosque and State in Indonesia
Toby Evans
Despite trends towards Islamisation, Indonesia is still largely pluralistic and moderate.

FEATURE: More Tracks, Slower Trains
John Nestor
The Victorian Regional Rail Link project is hobbled by inefficient planning and wasteful spending.

FEATURE: Unshackling Basic Knowledge
Diane Lester
By controlling taxpayer-funded research literature in biomedicine, private journal publishers have created a thorny situation.

FEATURE: Economic Sclerosis in Europe’s Social Democracies
Ben Vosloo
Rare political courage is needed to solve pathological problems afflicting European economies.

FEATURE: Robust Political Economy
Mark Pennington
A discussion of the challenges and criticisms facing classical liberals today.

FEATURE: How to Make Real Progress in Closing the Gap
Ross Farrelly
Randomised trials can help determine policies that can work in Indigenous affairs.

FEATURE: Ideology and Indigenous Policy
Sara Hudson
Biased policies have prevented remote Indigenous Australians from embracing change and moving forward.

FEATURE: A Prescription for Pharmacy Reform
Terry Barnes
Pharmacists’ stranglehold on PBS is anti-competitive.

FEATURE: Religious Liberty in Nation-States: Practice, Principles and Ideas
Samuel Gregg
Religious liberty has become a more contentious issue in today’s globalised world.

FEATURE: Separation of Mosque and State in Indonesia
Toby Evans
Despite trends towards Islamisation, Indonesia is still largely pluralistic and moderate.

FEATURE: Liberal Values and the End of History
Benjamin Herscovitch
The Arab Spring’s call for the institutionalisation of liberal values is reason to pause and reconsider Francis Fukuyama’s famed and reviled end of history thesis.

FEATURE: More Tracks, Slower Trains
John Nestor
The Victorian Regional Rail Link project is hobbled by inefficient planning and wasteful spending.

FEATURE: Unshackling Basic Knowledge
Diane Lester
By controlling taxpayer-funded research literature in biomedicine, private journal publishers have created a thorny situation.

INTERVIEW: Rebuilding Uruzgan Province
Bernard Philip talks to Sergei DeSilve-Ranasingha

BOOK REVIEWS

Too Much Luck is Never Enough
By Paul Cleary
Reviewed by Stephen Kirchner

Adapt
By Tim Harford
Reviewed by Alexander Philipatos

Ghetto at the Centre of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
By Gordon Matthews
Reviewed by Jessica Brown

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
By Ricardo Duchesne
Reviewed by Eric Jones

The Ethics of Voting
By Jason Brennan
Reviewed by Andrew Baker