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Fund IVF, But Not From The Health Budget By Sam Tormey - OzProspect Fellow Canberra Times 2 May, 2005 Last year we spent $78.6 million in helping people to have babies via IVF. That money comes from the same budget that we use for kidney dialysis, cancer treatment, heart attacks and strokes. Think about that. In what way does being infertile make you ill? It does not cause any physical pain, does not shorten one’s lifespan or cause any disability. Read more
Any Free Trade Agreement with China is Problematic By Michael Cebon - OzProspect Fellow Canberra Times 24 March, 2005 If you're a dictator who wants weapons of mass destruction, then you're a target. But if you're a dictator who's got weapons of mass destruction - and threatening to invade your neighbours - then you're considered a target market. Read more
Losing the Wisdom of the Ages By Daniel Donahoo - OzProspect Fellow Herald Sun 10 May, 2005 The declining birthrate doesn’t just mean fewer children. It also means fewer grandparents. Read more
Immigration? No Thanks. I'll Take Fertility and Make That A Double! By Priya Saratchandran, OzProspect Fellow Arena April - May, 2005 Apocalyptic headlines scream “Nation’s fertility crisis” “Populate or Perish” – if you are an Australian woman scratching thirty-something, you’d be forgiven for feeling like some kind of moving target. Read more
Opposite Sides of the Cultural Coin By Emma Dawson, OzProspect Fellow NewMatilda.com 4 May, 2005 It’s doubtful that Joh Bjelke-Peterson and Al Grassby ever had anything in common, other than the day of their deaths. While we might seem currently to be more relaxed and comfortable clinging on to the last fragments of Joh’s Australia, progress will out. The multicoloured, multicultural, multilingual Australia with which I grew up began with Al Grassby, but it will not die with him. Read more
Looking for the Right Exit By Dr Fiona Stewart and Dr Philip Nitschke Herald Sun 26 January, 2005 In a community deeply divided over abortion and stem-cell research, it is heartening to know that euthanasia is more popular than ever; almost three quarters of us believing in a person's right to be able to die with dignity. Read
That Positive Feeling By Greg Barns South China Morning Post 1 April, 2005 Australians view China more positively than they do the US, according to a major survey released by the prestigious foreign policy think-tank, the Lowy Institute. Read
More Time, Less Money: Downshifting as a Progessive Transition Solution for Rural Australia By Daniel Donahoo Transitions and Risk Conference Paper Centre for Public Policy University of Melbourne 23 February, 2005 Policy makers confronting economic and social instability in rural Australia should consider the path of downshifters. Read
Endangered Species: Redefining the Australian Family By Daniel Donahoo Investigate Magazine April, 2005 The average age for first-time dads in Australia is 32.5 years: an all-time high. If you are dad in your early 20s you are on the fringe. Read
Enough Work to Go Around By Daniel Donahoo and Tim Martyn NewMatilda.com 23 February, 2005 It seems everyone is complaining about working too hard and long - but the job poor are crying out for more. Read
It's Time for Young Men to Come to the Party on Commitment By Daniel Donahoo The Age 1 March, 2005 Bachelorhood gets all the plaudits but our society needs to start selling the positives of being a father and a husband. Read
The Republic Dream is Not Dead By Greg Barns The Age 6 November, 2004 If Peter Costello becomes prime minister, and if he accepts a popularly elected president. Read
Irreconcilable Differences? By Madeleine Byrne Eureka Street September, 2004 With China's economic might growing by the minute, what are the prospects for democracy and civil society in Hong Kong. A report from the frontlines of the Hong Kong democracy movement. Read
The Day of the liberal Liberal is at Hand By Greg Barns The Age 1 February, 2005 From July 1, John Howard will have control of the Federal Senate. Now is the time for the small-l wing of the Liberal party to stand up. Read
The Trouble With Today’s CEOs By Tim Watts The Age 21 February, 2005 Almost universally in my peer group of young parents, men and women want to work part-time. For most this is harder than it should be. Read
We Whinge About Returning, But We're Hooked on Work By Daniel Donahoo January 17, 2005 The Age There is a heavy price to be paid for our chronic addiction to work. Read
The Left Must Return Home - to the Community By Daniel Donahoo OnlineOpinion.com.au December 8, 2004 Where to for the Federal ALP? Home to the community, writes Daniel Donahoo. Read
Nuclear Power is No Panacea for Climate Change Online Opinion 27 January, 2005 By Donna Green A dangerous myth that nuclear power is a cheap, environmentally-friendly solution to our future electricity needs has been circulating again. Read
Daniel Donahoo - OzProspect Fellow ‘Living free of responsibility leaves others holding the baby’ Sydney Morning Herald22 November 2004 Faced with the choice between contributing to superannuation or having a few extra dollars to spend at the pub on the weekend, young men will choose a beer every time. Young men don't understand responsibility very well. No one is teaching us.
Madeleine Byrne - OzProspect Fellow "Exporting the Pacific Solution" NewMatilda.com November 10, 2004 As the 2004 election campaign showed, support for the 'Pacific Solution' makes good political sense. Boats no longer hover near Australian shores and a potentially explosive issue has fizzled out. None of this has been lost on European leaders. Read it
Emma Dawson
“Hanson Reveals Howard’s True
Victory”
The Age
Sept 17, 2004
She used to be
shocking. Now
she is mainstream. What does that say about us?
Read It
Sam Tormey - OzProspect Fellow "Making Perfect Babies" Griffith Review Winter 2004 New genetic technologies, originally developed to diagnose and prevent severe genetic disease, are changing the way that we think about human reproduction. The process of making babies seems less subject to chance or fate and increasingly dependent on the extent and quality of medical care received before birth. Common genetic diseases are coming to be seen not so much a result of bad luck, but of carelessness or negligence. Read it
Greg Barns “Advance Australia Fairly” Keynote Speech to Deakin University May 15, 2002 As Australians we cannot take the upside of globalisation – cheaper products, new industries and ideas – without taking the other side that is represented by more people wanting to live where the better life and economic growth will be. Read It
Greg Barns "A Dilemma on Howard's Conscience" Sydney Morning Herald April 26, 2002
Greg Barns "Afghans Saving Aussie Bacon", Herald Sun
April 18,
2002
Mark Davis "Great White Noise" Sydney Morning Herald 12 January 2002 The big gap in Australian politics is between perceptions and realities. And it is the untidy facts, the loose ends that don't fit into stereotypes and generalisations, that allow people to demonise certain groups in our society. Read it Daniel Donahoo - OzProspect Fellow ‘Living free of responsibility leaves others holding the baby’ Sydney Morning Herald22 November 2004 Faced with the choice between contributing to superannuation or having a few extra dollars to spend at the pub on the weekend, young men will choose a beer every time. Young men don't understand responsibility very well. No one is teaching us.
Madeleine Byrne - OzProspect Fellow "Exporting the Pacific Solution" NewMatilda.com November 10, 2004 As the 2004 election campaign showed, support for the 'Pacific Solution' makes good political sense. Boats no longer hover near Australian shores and a potentially explosive issue has fizzled out. None of this has been lost on European leaders. Read it Tim Watts & Daniel Grollo Migration Levels Must Rise BRW July 24, 2003 Australia is fortunate enough to have reserves of human resources equivalent to about 12% of our labor force, lying idle, untapped. This dormant "human capital" is the 1.2 million foreign nationals who applied to migrate to Australia in 2002.
Tim Watts, Hugh Martin & Steve Vizard "We Need a Population Plan, Mr Ruddock" The Age April 7, 2003
Greg Barns “Advance Australia Fairly” Keynote Speech to Deakin University May 15, 2002 As Australians we cannot take the upside of globalisation – cheaper products, new industries and ideas – without taking the other side that is represented by more people wanting to live where the better life and economic growth will be. Read It
Greg Barns "A Dilemma on Howard's Conscience" Sydney Morning Herald
April 26, 2002
Greg Barns "Afghans Saving Aussie Bacon", Herald Sun
April 18, 2002
Simon Castles
"Reality Bites Gen X Myth"
April 22, 2002
Fiona Stewart "How the Internet Gave Rise to a New Girl Power" The Age March 22, 2002
Tim Watts and Hugh Martin "A New Political Mood" Herald Sun February 19, 2002
Tim Watts, Hugh Martin and Fiona Stewart "Debunking the Great Generation X Myth" The Age January 29, 2002
Tim Watts "Mobilised, Globalised" The Age April 22, 2000
Simon Castles "Why I Won't Be In Church on Sunday" The Age March 20, 2000
Hugh Martin "Hacktivists Set Their Sites High" The Australian February 21, 2000
Tim Watts "Bank Goes to School for Elixir of Youth" BRW February 8, 1999 Tim Watts "Geeks Seek the Last Mile" The Australian March 13, 2002
Tim Watts
"Spectrum Sale is Off the
Air" March 19, 2001 Fiona Stewart and Dale Spender "Unis: The Way Forward" The Age March 15, 2001
Tim Watts 'The Prime Time Killer on TV' BRW February 9, 2001
Tim Watts 'Boom A Troubling Test of Patents' BRW May 5, 2000
Tim Watts 'Spreading the Net: Point, Click and Vote' The Age February 19, 2000
Simon Castles
"VCE Cheats: Top of the
Class in the Real World”
January 3, 2003
Fiona Stewart "Meeting the Online Challenge" Australian Financial Review March 21, 2001
Fiona Stewart "An Office Even Free Agents Would Leave Home For" The Age January 20, 2002
Fiona Stewart "Family Friendly Workplace Gone Mad" The Age August 16, 2001
Tom Morton "The Fragile Economy" Sydney Morning Herald February 10, 2001
Fiona Stewart "E-charity: The Dot Compassion Revolution" The Age January 7, 2001
Tim Watts "The Information Gap in the New Economy" The Boston Globe December 26, 2000
Tim Watts "Value the Intangible Dream" BRW December 1, 2000
Tim Watts "Spiritual Branding" BRW July 16, 2000
Jackie Bailey - OzProspect Fellow 'An Unhappiness You Can Measure' Sydney Morning Herald November 7, 2003 It's a fact. We Australians are not as happy as our Western counterparts - the Irish, the Americans, even the Kiwis. World Values Survey figures, published for the first time in the New Scientist last month, show that Australians are lagging in 20th place, in front of Britain (in 24th) but well behind, for example, Denmark and Puerto Rico. Read it
Simon Castles 'VCE Cheats: Top of the Class in the Real World' The Age January 3, 2003
Fiona Stewart and Tim Watts "We Should Insist on the Right to Die in a Way and at the Time of Our Choosing" The Age March 30, 2002
Fiona Stewart "A Refreshing New Line on Men's Troubles" The Age January 2, 2002
Fiona Stewart "Family Friendly Workplace Gone Mad" The Age August 16, 2001
Tom Morton "The Y and the Wherefore" The Age July 8, 2002
Simon Castles
"When Children Kill, We
All Have Failed”
March 15, 2001
Fiona Stewart "In a Man's World, People Make a Ms-ing Link" The Age March 11, 2001
Tom Morton "The Fragile Economy" Sydney Morning Herald February 10, 2001
Simon Castles "The Drug Trade's Real Attraction" The Age January 11, 2001
Simon Castles "Why I Won't Be In Church on Sunday" The Age March 20, 2000
Simon Castles "Rich or Poor, A Junkie is A Junkie" The Age January 27, 2000
Daniel Donahoo - OzProspect Fellow “Organisational obesity and the role of local government” NewMatilda.com December 2004 Never mind the weight of young children, take a look at the amount of dead weight in government. Read it
Thornton McCamish "Secularism no moral vacuum" The Age November 19, 2004 Religion doesn't have a monopoly on ethics, and it's not the answer to our woes.
Greg Barns "Nothing Peaceable or Green in Silly Gestures" The Australian April 10, 2003 The stunt by Greenpeace and NSW Greens MP Ian Cohen in seeking to stop the passage of the Gulf-bound HMAS Sydney through Sydney Harbour on Tuesday should be condemned by the anti-war movement. Read It...
Greg Barns "Advance Australia Fairly" Keynote Speech to Deakin University May 15, 2002
Tim Watts and Hugh Martin "A New Political Mood" Herald Sun February 19, 2002 |
The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement: An Environmental Impact Assessment October 2003 By
A free trade agreement with the US would increase Australian farmers' water use by at least 1.3 trillion litres per year, according to research by OzProspect's Michael Cebon. Read
Australia's Population Challenge Edited by Hugh Martin, Tim Watts & Steve Vizard Penguin Books: Melbourne 2003
The Five Percent Solution: A Spectrum Fee to Replace the Public Interest Obligations of Broadcasters By Tim Watts, OzProspect Director and Henry Geller New America Foundation Issue Brief Series, Washington DC, May 2002
By David Bollier and Tim Watts, OzProspect Director New America Foundation Report, Washington DC, May 2002
Invited Testimony to the the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Radiocommunications To read the transcript of OzProspect Director Tim Watts' contribution to the inquiry and to find out why he thinks there should be more unlicensed spectrum in Australia click here
By Tom Morton, OzProspect mentor Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997
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