Howard’s Decade by Paul Kelly. Lowy Institute, 2006

John Howard is an unlikely prime minister to have made a decisive contribution to Australia’s foreign policy and national security. Before he assumed offi ce in 1996 Howard’s 22 year career in parliament had been conspicuous for its focus on domestic issues and limited attention to the wider...

Quiet boom by John Edwards. Lowy Institute, 2006

The Australian economy is now in the sixteenth year of uninterrupted expansion, the longest boom in its history. In the last fi fteen years wealth has more than doubled, output has increased by nearly two thirds, the capital stock by more than half, labour productivity by a little under half, and...

Report of the Inquiry into Australian Intelligence Agencies, 20 July 2004