Colin Teese, a former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Trade, looks at Canberra’s capitulation on the Howe Leather case in which Australia displayed its weakness before the world. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) must have been relieved when it was informed of the terms of the settlement reached between the United States and Australia…
A special Geneva session of the UN General Assembly has authorised a comprehensive study into the possibility of a so-called “Tobin Tax”, as a means of dampening volatility in foreign exchange markets. It would involve a 0.25% tax on the on-the-spot conversions of one currency into another. American economist and Nobel prize winner Professor James…
Helen Spring believes that the suicide of a prominent politician should focus attention on how our medical system dispenses psychiatric care. Much has been written on the suicide of a politician, Greg Wilton. The coverage highlights how our public psychiatric hospitals have fallen victim to bureaucratic meddling in administration and funding. Hospital managers are offered…
Back to the world of William Hogarth Readers will doubtless remember from last issue a quite graphic account of drugs in a school, and of the blasé and permissive attitudes of teachers and some parents towards these tragic phenomena; and the quite natural temptation on the part of a reader to think that “this must…