US Evaluation of Financial Crisis?  (January 2011)

The Choice is not just between Flood Levees and Flood Levies (January 2011)

'Post-war reconstruction' is only one of many Challenges (January 2011)

NBN's Bigger Picture (October 2010)

Fixing Australia: Do the Econocrats have the Right Answers? (October 2010)

Moving Australia Beyond Traditional Multiculturalism (August 2010)

Developing Australia's Economy: The Role of Migration (July 2010)

A Case for Restoring Universities (June 2010)

Remaking Democratic Capitalism  - Incomplete notes only (March 2010)

Fixing Australia's Federation  (March 2010)

Eliminating the Need for Chaplains in Australia's State Schools (March 2010)

Celebrating a New Evangelical 'Religion': Atheism (March 2010)

An Exchange of Views with Atheist Foundation of Australia (April 2010)

Is a National Health and Hospitals Network Progress? (March 2010)

Making a Bad Situation Worse? (April 2010)

Proposed National History Curriculum: Information without Understanding? (March 2010)

Philosophy and Religion: The Case for a Bigger Picture View (February 2010)

Republican Realism: A Purely 'Ceremonial' Head of State? (January 2010)

Lifting Productivity: Considering the Bigger Picture (January 2010)

The Advantages and Limitations of Financial Criteria (October 2010)

The 'Bigger, Longer and Better' Resource Boom Hypothesis (March 2010)

Seeking a Strategy for Economic Prosperity (August 2010)

Sydney's 2010 New Year's Eve Celebrations: Awakening Which 'Spirit'? (January 2010)

Babes in the Asian Woods (November 2009)

Risks from Asia-illiterate Policy Making (May 2010)

China may not have the solution, but it seems to have a problem (March 2010)

Comment on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Time May not be on China's Side (April 2010)

Aiding the World's Poorest: Some Suggestions to TEAR Australia (November 2009)

Which Identity Does Japan want Back? An Exchange of Views (September 2009)

Fixing Global Finance: Who is responsible? (September 2009)

Focusing on Japan and the Global Financial Crisis (August 2009)

Journey Towards a More Effective 'Fitzgerald Inquiry' (July 2009)

[Modified] Submission on Stimulating Employment Opportunities in Queensland (July 2009)

Solving SE Queensland's Transport Planning Woes? (June 2009)

Can Lessons be Learned from Camden? (June 2009)

Beyond the 'Open Economy' - Accelerating Economic Development (May 2009)

Avoiding Ongoing Global Crashes (May 2009)

Are East Asian Economic Models Sustainable? (May 2009)

Understanding East Asia's Neo-Confucian Systems of Socio-political-economy (May 2009)

Impacting the Global Economy (May 2009)

Creating a New International 'Confucian' Political and Economic Order (May 2009)

Outreach to Islamist Radicals (April 2009)

A Case for Innovative Economic Leadership (April 2009)

Keeping Religion out of Australian Politics (February 2009)

A Social Democratic Alternative to 'Neo-Liberalism'? (February 2009)

Australia's Future Tax System: The Cost of the Financial Crisis and the Opportunity to Fix Government (January 2009)

Leading Edge Optimism (in progress and unavailable)

Intellectual Fraud: Endangering Societies that depend on Intellectual Honesty (January 2009)

The Second Failure of Globalization? (updated October 2003 and October 2008)

September 11: The First Test

Global Financial Crisis: The Second Test of Globalization?

Defending Australia from the Financial Crisis? (October 2008)

Brisbane's Transportation Monster (May 2008)

[Incomplete draft of] Greenhouse Gases and Climatic History (December 2007)

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Perpetuating Disadvantage? (November 2007)

Financial Market Instability: A Many Sided Story (September 2007)

China: Victor or Victim?

Outline of Climate Change: A Natural Hazard (July 2007)

A Crisis in Education at QUT? (June 2007)

Commentary on 'Liquidity Boom and Looming Crisis' (June 2007)

Structural Incompetence and SE Queensland's Water Crisis (May 2007)

'Is our System of Government in Queensland Working?': Outline and Commentary (May 2007)

More 'Questions for Kevin' (April 2007)

On Populism (February 2007)

Restoring 'Faith in Politics' (December 2006)

An Alternative to Market Fundamentalism? (November 2006)

God On My Side .... A Conspiracy Theory? (November 2006)

Climate Change; 'No time to lose' in doing exactly what? (October 2006)

Queensland's Challenge: A 2006 Report Card (September 2006)

'Vulnerability in the Australian City Symposium': A Commentary (June 2006)

Commentary on The Role of Government in Queensland (May 2006)

The Upper House Solution: A Commentary (April 2006)

Commentary on Directions for Health Reform in Australia (April 2006)

'Razor gang hits service efficiency’ (February 2006)

Taxpayers Cheated by Incompetent Governance (February 2006)

A Middle Eastern Solution to Ethnic Conflict? (December 2005)

Improving Public Sector Performance in Queensland (November 2005)

Draft of About the Ideology of the Party for Islamic Renewal (October 2005)

Comments on No Dialogue - Only Da'wa (July 2005)

About Arabic Thought and Islamic Science (July 2005)

Commentary on Democratic Republic of Congo: Peace Tomorrow (June 2005)

Working draft of Australia's Strategic Positioning (June 2005)

A Response to Hizb-ut-Tahrir Britain's Manifesto (May 2005)

SE Queensland Regional Plan and Infrastructure Plan (Revised May 2005)

Intended Submission to Health System Royal Commission (April 2005)

Comments on Education Laws for the Future (January 2005)

Queensland's Worst Government? (January 2005)

Review of National Competition Reforms: A Commentary (December 2004)

Comments on new National Reform Agenda (February 2006)

Comments on the Adelaide Declaration (November 2004)

Fear of Rocking the Boat (October 2004)

Political 'Mates' as a Factor in Queensland's Chronically Poor Public Administration (October 2004)

Creating a More S&T Capable Australia (Draft - September 2004)

Failure in Queensland's Electricity Distribution Network (August 2004)

Minimizing Poverty (July 2004)

The Economic Futility of 'Backing Australia's Ability 2' (May 2004)

Probable Breakthrough in Understanding Economic Development (April 2004)

Authoritarian Government in Queensland? (February 2004)

Accountability of Queensland's senior public servants (February 2004)

Building Growth and Opportunity in a Competitive State: A Commentary (February 2004)

The Importance of Values Taught in State Schools (February 2004)
Review of Child Protection Proposals (January 2004)

Growth Management in SE Queensland (November 2003)

The Lessons of History (November 2003)

Realistic Public Administration is the Key (April 2004)

China's Development: Assessing the Implications (revised October 2003)

Structural Incompatibility Puts Global Growth at Risk (September 2003)

Does Productivity Growth Confirm Queensland as the Smart State? (incomplete - September 2003)

Commentary on 'Smart State': Illustrating Queensland's Lack of Serious Public Policy (revised September 2003)

Is the Smart State a Just State: A Commentary (July 2003)

Queensland's Budgets (revised June 2003)

Australia's Governance Crisis and the Need for Nation Building (from May 2003)

Child Sex Abuse (updated May 2003)

QCU Government Services / Revenue Forum: A Commentary (April 2003)

(draft) New Industry Policy: A Commentary (February 2003)

Decay of Australian Public Administration (November 2002)

About 'Grand Conspiracy' Theories (November 2002)

Fahrenheit 9/11: Another Day After Tomorrow? (June 2004)

Queensland's Economic Strategy (revised October 2002)

Towards a Professional Public Service for Queensland (updated October 2002)

Public Service Champions for Aboriginal Communities? (October 2002)

Conflict amongst Queensland Magistrates (October 2002)

Discouraging Pointless Extremism (September 2002)

Some Ideas for Indonesia (September 2002)

Comparative Development Theory: Indonesia / Australia (August 2002)

Asia's 'Brown Cloud' (August 2002)

South Land Connections Project (August 2002)

Getting our Heads Together (July 2002)

Review of Public Sector Enterprise Bargaining (July 2002)

The Challenge of Aboriginal Advancement (revised June 2002)

Queensland's Biotechnology Bubble (June 2002)

Sovereign Risk and the PNG Gas Pipeline (June 2002)

About The Queensland R&D Strategy (June 2002)

About Managing Australian Mineral Wealth (May 2002)

Defects in Infrastructure Planning and Delivery in Queensland (May 2002)

From The Agenda: Towards Opportunity and Prosperity (May 2002)

About Education Reform (March 2002)

Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure (revised February 2002)

Impact of Economic Liberalism in Australia (January 2002)

State Infrastructure Plan: Strategic Directions 2001: A Commentary (January 2002)

A New 'Manhattan' Project for Global Peace, Prosperity and Security (December 2001)

Towards a New Global Financial System (December 2001)

Debating Regional Transport Proposals (from 2001)

Review of Grants Commission Arrangements (December 2001)

Complexities in the Refugee Problem (from November 2001)

Solving the Global Refugee Crisis (added October 2006)

About Islam (from October 2001)

Competing Civilizations (from September 2001)

Risks in a Clash with Islamist Extremists - September 2001

Attacking the Global Financial System? - September 2001

The Ten Point Plan: A Commentary - August 2001

Foreign and Regional Aid via the Internet (August 2001)

Centralizing Australia's Approach to Foreign Investment? (August 2001)

Buying Industry (from August 2001)

An Enterprise Institute?  (August 2001) 

The Failure of Political Leadership (July 2001)

The Growing Case for a Professional Public Service (from July 2001)

Public Investment in a Magnesium Plant (from July 2001)

The Origin and Spread of the 'Queensland effect' (July 2001)

Competing and Collaborating Economically in East Asia (June 2001)

Monetary Systems: A Speculation (June 2001)

'Opportunity Cost of Misplaced Faith': A Commentary (May 2001)

Enterprise Zones (May 2001)

Queensland's Challenge - February 2001

Developing a Regional Industry Cluster - December 2000

Australia in the Global Economy (from December 2000)

Notes on 'Strategic Infrastructure for Queensland's Growth' - October 2000

Defects in Economic Tactics, Strategy and Outcomes - September 2000

Renewal of Queensland's Public Service - April 2000

Comments on Queensland's Local Industry Policy - February 2000

Innovation - Queensland's Future: A Commentary - October 1999

Queensland's Weak Parliament (March 1999)

Assessing the Implications of Pauline Hanson's One Nation - July 1998

Australia's Current Account Deficit Constraint (July 1998)

Australia's Relationships with 'Asia' (July 1998)

'Asia' Literacy (July 1998)

Asian Financial Crisis - February 1998

The Cultural Revolution needed in 'Asia' to Adapt to Western Financial Systems (February 1998)

New American Economy (October 1997)

Evaluation of Managing for Outcomes' - September 1997  

Growing Importance of Non-financial Performance Measures (September 1997)

The Industry Policy Debate: a brief introduction - April 1997

Strategy Development in Business and Government - March 1997

Toward Good Government in Queensland - August 1995

Review of The Fall of the House of Cain (August 1995)

Advantages of Public Service Competence over Political Compliance (August 1995)

The Limited Economic Effect of Public Sector Commercialization (August 1995)

Economic solutions are beyond politics (August 1995)

Redeveloping Queensland's Administration (August 1995)

Why economics can't really explain economic growth and development (August 1995)

SEQ 2001 - A Plan for an Under-developed Economy - March 1994

SE Queensland as an under-developed economy (March 1994)

Creating Competitive Advantage (March 1994)

Changing Approaches to Industrial Location (March 1994)

Transforming the Tortoise: A Breakthrough to Improve Australia's Place in the Economic Race? - 1993 

Why are Bureaucrats bureaucratic? (1993)

Review of the Queensland Economic Strategy, Leading State (July 1992)

Counter-cyclical policy can't solve structural problems (August 2011)

Asia's Next Financial Crisis and its Impact on Australia (August 2011)

Progressive Economic Policy Options (August 2011)

Preparing for Economic Warfare (August 2011)

Making Australian Leadership in Innovation a Reality (August 2011)

Preventing Economic Stagnation (August 2011)

Do Blind Spots Cloud the RBA's 'Lucky Country' Vision? (June 2011)

The Need for Asia Literacy in US and Australian Foreign Policy (June 2011)

Communism Versus Confucianism: The Continuing Contest in China (June 2011)

Garnaut Climate Change Review: The Need for a Broader Approach (June 2011)

Australia's Political Failure: Is 'The Economist' to Blame? (May 2011)

Hitting Osama, but Missing Islamist Extremism (May 2011)

Losing What We Fought For? (May 2011)

TEQSA: Will Micromanagement Again Triumph over Government? (April 2011)

An 'efficiency dividend' seems an inefficient way to improve efficiency (April 2011)

Finding Australia's Place in the International Financial System (April 2011)

Climate change and the search for balanced research (March 2011)

'The Times They are a-Changing' - but not always for the better (January 2011)

Improving the Position of Australians with Indigenous Ancestry  (January 2011)

Sharia 4 Australia? (January 2011)

Stemming Refugee Flows from the Middle East (January 2011)

Heading for the Grip of a Great Depression? (January 2011)

Australia's National History Curriculum: Making Education Futile and Highlighting the Importance of Christianity? (December 2010)

Suspect house price statistics: A formula for policy-induced booms and busts? (December 2010)

Ending the West's Global Predominance? (December 2010)

S-L-O-W Learners (December 2010)

Explaining prohibitions on gay marriage to children (November 2010)

Humanism classes in government schools (November 2010)

'Recognising Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution': More Symbolism? (November 2010)

An Alternative to Scapegoating Capitalism (November 2010)

Proposed ASX Takeover: Lifting the Level of Debate (November 2010)

Comments on 'Australia 2050: Big Australia' (October 2050)

Overlooked Issues Affecting Australia's Banking System (October 2010)

Speculations about Queensland's Economic Predicament (October 2010)

Christian Foundations of Liberal Western Institutions (October 2010)

Resist Protectionism: A Call That is Decades Too Late (October 2010)

China can't fix the global currency crisis without economic disaster (October 2010)

Reinventing the Regions (October 2010)

Making sense of the Chinese way (October 2010)

China can't be properly understood in terms of Western economics (September 2009)

Carbon Certainty is a Long Way Off (September 2010)

Correcting a Few Misconceptions (September 2010)

The Problem with Blinkered 'Tolerance' (September 2010)

Tactics used in covering up sexual abuse of children in the community generally (September 2009)

More Statesmanship: Less Politics (September 2009)

Economics is only One Factor in Diplomacy (September 2010)

Asia's Superpower Shuffle (September 2009)

Who's Got Superman? (September 2010)

Some Thoughts on the 'China Era' (August 2010)

Looking for the Invisible Elephant (August 2010)

Seeking a Strategy for Economic Prosperity (August 2010)

Re-imagining the Federation to Develop New Cities (July 2010)

China's Bigger Secret (July 2010)

Rising to the Islamic Challenge (July 2010)

Bringing Balanced Understandings about Islam into Australian Schools (July 2010)

Thoughts on Hizb-ut-Tahrir in Australia  (July 2010)

Accidentally Encouraging Moral Authoritarianism? (July 2010)

Faith in Science and Reason: How Much is Right? (June 2010)

Asia's Rising Atheism (May 2010)

Misunderstanding the 'Asia' Factor in GFC (May 2010)

RSPT Won't Hurt Miners: But Pity Help Naive Australians (May 2010)

China may not have the solution, but it seems to have a problem (March 2010)

Another way of "Understanding Islamic Terrorism" (February 2010)

Familiarity with the Bible: Churches' not State Responsibility (December 2009)

Looking for a Better Federal Public Service: Intellectual Populism? (September 2009)

Taking Exotic Believers More Seriously (April 2009)

Peter's letters to the 'Nutters' (January 2009)

Public Service Magic? (May 2008)

Productivity Magic? (April 2008)

Fixing Australia's Health and Hospital Systems? (March 2008)

Apology Magic? (February 2008)

Talkfest Magic? (February 2008)

Infrastructure Magic? (January 2008)

Australia's New 'Cooperative' Federalism (December 2007)

Code of Conduct: Do Moral 'Laws' Raise or Lower Political Standards? (December 2007)

Finding the Truth on Climate Change (November 2007)

Could China Generate a Financial 'Tsunami'? (October 2007)

Aspirational Nationalism: 'Third Way politics by Another Name? (September 2007)

Federalism: Why 'Control Freaks' Don't Achieve Real Results (August 2007)

Countering Terrorism: Are Australia's Institutions Making Assess of Themselves? (August 2007)

Some Thoughts on Housing Affordability (June 2007)

A Somewhat Holey View of Religion? (May 2007)

Fair Work Australia: Establishing the Machinery of a Socialist State? (April 2007)

Is Education Spending the Key to Raising Economic Productivity? (January 2007)

Is 'Work Choices' a Good Choice for Work? (November 2006)

Beyond Sheik al-Hilali's Claims about Rape (November 2006)

Beyond the Pope's Claims about 'Forced Conversion' (September 2006)

Continuing the Separation of Church and State (June 2006)

Is a National Health Model the Best Remedy? (March 2006)

Combating Terrorism with Civil Liberties (October 2005)

Did God Design a Better Argument? (September 2005)

The Cohabitation of Civilizations? (August 2005)

Whatever happened to welfare? (July 2005)

Disrupting Australian-Indonesian Relations (June 2005)

About the Washington Consensus (May 2005)

Infrastructure Constraints on Australia's Economy (March 2005)

The Value of Creativity and Culture (February 2005)

Is Secular Modernism the Answer?

About the Curse of Natural Resources (October 2004)

More on a Solution to Terrorism Risks

Another Queensland Government Development Strategy. ... Ho Hum! (Sept 2004)

Does free will exist?

Beyond the 'Group of 43'? (August 2004)

Overcoming the damage done to Australia's Public Service?

Complications in the Potential Housing Crisis (July 2004)

Queensland's 'Administrative Desperation' Unit (July 2004)

Law Reform to Control Child Sex Abuse in Institutions?

Context to the US 'Asset Economy' (June 2004)

Reform of Queensland Institutions - or a Rising Tide of Public Hypocrisy?

If Government is just about values, would the leader be the 'High Priest'?

'Creative Culture' in Brisbane

Will Auslink cure or compound Brisbane's traffic congestion?

The Potential for Economic Instability (May 2004)

Corporatisation of Australia's healthcare system?

Promoting equity by free private schooling for poorer students?

Are religious differences or fundamentalism to blame for global woes?

Smartening up Queensland's Department of State Development (April 2004)

Australia's Republican 'Conspiracy'?

Could US 'Unilateralism' be Gamesmanship? (February 2003)

Queensland's Rejection of Retail Electricity Competition (October 2001)