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International What should Obama do? Eric M. Leeper 26 August 2011 The US president should start by articulating sound short-term and longer-term economic policies National affairs Never so good? Frank Bongiorno 21 August 2011 On the anniversary of the 2010 Australian election, Frank Bongiorno – just back from London – contrasts the challenges facing Britain and Australia National affairs Living on luck Michael Gilding 17 August 2011 Michael Gilding reviews Paul Cleary’s analysis of the Australian mining industry National affairs Failure in Washington Geoffrey Barker 8 August 2011 Talk of an honourable compromise cannot hide an abject failure of economic, social and political vision, writes Geoffrey Barker

National affairs Paying for Australia’s infrastructure deficit Nicholas Gruen 23 November 2010 Public–private partnerships have turned out to be an expensive way of plugging infrastructure gaps, writes Nicholas Gruen. The evidence shows that governments need… National affairs Lessons from the Australia–US Free Trade Agreement John Quiggin 22 November 2010 The agreement delivered few, if any, of the benefits promised by its advocates, writes John Quiggin, but its adverse consequences have also been more limited than many… Essays & reportage Designs on the landscape Glenn Nicholls 20 November 2010 A return trip to East Germany’s Lusatia region, twenty years on, reveals an extraordinary transition away from coal mining and heavy industry, writes Glenn Nicholls National affairs Trading culture Jock Given 18 November 2010 Officials from Australia and eight other Pacific countries meet in Auckland on 6 December to begin their fourth round of negotiations for a trans-Pacific free-trade agreement.…

National affairs Reclaiming our financial sectors Ross Buckley 22 June 2010 The Australian government should swing its support behind the growing international campaign for a banking levy, writes Ross Buckley, and then it should join the push for… International Dreaming of the Deutschmark Klaus Neumann 14 May 2010 Germans aren’t really opposed to the Greek bail-out, they’re just nostalgic for a half-imagined past, writes Klaus Neumann Wednesday 5 May 2010, Athens, Greece Giannis Efthymiou 14 May 2010 The deaths in Athens last week raise profound questions about the state of Greece, writes Giannis Efthymiou, who was among the protesters on 5 May National affairs Disregarding Henry Brian Toohey 6 May 2010 Funds from the planned super-profits tax on mining could have been used much more productively, argues Brian Toohey, and key Henry report recommendations deserved early…