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Cover -- Series -- In the National Interest -- Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency -- Good International Citizenship -- The Moral Imperative -- The National Interest Imperative -- Australia's Record: Overseas Aid -- Australia's Record: Human Rights -- Looking Inward -- Looking Outward -- Australia's Record: Conflict, Atrocities and Refugees -- Peacemaking -- Peacekeeping -- Warfighting -- Atrocities -- Refugees -- Australia's Record: Pandemics, Climate and Nuclear Weapons -- Pandemics -- Climate -- Nuclear Weapons -- The Politics of Decency -- Notes -- About this Book -- About the Author -- In the National Interest -- Other books on the issues that matter.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Justice: Being careful what you wish for-Civil libertarian-A national bill of rights-Law reformer-Failed constitutional reformer-The joys of opposition-Becoming Attorney-General-Biggles-Combe-Ivanov-The trials of Lionel Murphy-Ministerial dreams and realities -- 2 Race: Death in Alice-Growing up in the 1950s-Aboriginal legal services and land rights-Mabo in the Senate-Mandela and apartheid-The changing face of Australian racism-Indigenous recognition and reconciliation-Legislating against race hatred -- 3 Enterprise: Minister for Pipes and Holes-Energy-Mining-Water-Minister for Transport and Communications-Corporatising the state-owned enterprises-Labor's brand of socialism-Tough love for the ABC-Relevance deprivation in opposition-Contemporary economic challenges -- 4 Diplomacy: New dawn-Inheriting the Labor tradition-Becoming Foreign Minister-'His mind craves structures'-National interests and good international citizenship-National capabilities-United States alliance-Middle power diplomacy-Setting priorities-South Pacific-Aid, human rights and the environment-Cooperative security-Australia and the United Nations -- 5 Cooperation: At home in Asia-Indonesia-East Timor-Peace in Cambodia-Regional economic and security architecture-ASEAN-Japan-China v. United States-India and the Indo-Pacific-Middle East-UK and Europe-Russia-Effective foreign policymaking -- 6 Conflict: Vietnam at war-When is it right to fight?-Leading the International Crisis Group-What makes for successful NGOs-Lessons for preventing deadly conflict-Staying optimistic in a dangerous world -- 7 Atrocities: Life and death in Cambodia-The horror of Rwanda and the Balkans-Conceiving the responsibility to protect-Birth of a new international norm-What R2P has achieved-Why pessimism is premature.

With growing public pressure and increasingly stringent environmental legislation, the waste industry is now being called upon to develop more sustainable methods of dealing with refuse. Coupled with moves to reduce reliance on landfill as a disposal route, biological treatment will increasingly become adopted as a standard requirement for the vast majority of putrescible wastes. Biowaste and Biological Waste Treatment examines the present, and likely future, state of biological waste treatment. The book falls naturally into three parts. The first covers the nature of biowaste, waste treatment.

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While longstanding critiques of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a Western interventionist doctrine are well known, this intervention argues that a new form of backlash politics to the R2P is emerging from key Western states that have long been its strongest advocates and supporters. This intervention argues that this trend is disconcerting in that it risks returning to an international politics of complacency whereby states are no longer willing to acknowledge or accept responsibility to assist populations from mass atrocities occurring within the borders of a foreign state. Two strategies are advocated to counter this trend among governments. First, is to emphasise the successes as well as acknowledge the failures of R2P. Second, to clearly articulate how it is in every country's own national interest to respond decently to conscience-shocking atrocity crimes occurring elsewhere.

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This note describes the restraint which will be needed for China and the US to embrace and sustain the kind of détente which dramatically thawed relations between the US and Soviet Union. For the United States, the restraint that is needed is to step back from demanding recognition of its continued primacy; Washington should recognize that China is no longer prepared to be just a rule-taker, but is determined to be a major player in international rule-making. For China restraint is necessary partly because its recently reasserted territorial claims over the South China Sea are indefensible in international law, and also because it has recently played a much more active spoiling role on human rights issues than it did in the past. Australia, and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, have an important role to play in encouraging the US and China to do what is needed.

Wales' education system is part-way through an extensive journey of reform. This contextual paper explores the evolution of that journey, from the establishment of the Welsh Parliament in 1999 to late 2020, as Wales readies itself for the launch of a radical, new national curriculum. Drawing from a range of international literature and experience, it provides an overview of key policy developments and insight into the rationale for decisions taken by the Welsh Government to effect change. To do this, it separates reform into three core phases, each with its own characteristics borne out of landmark events that helped shape contemporary political and public discourse. In particular, the paper examines the impact of Wales' shifting approach to policy development on the teaching workforce and considers implications for those at the site of practice. Ahead of forthcoming parliamentary elections, the paper resolves that a new, long-term approach to policy reform and teacher development is needed if Wales is to realise its ambitious vision for education.

Abstract: Wales' education system is part-way through an extensive journey of reform. This contextual paper explores the evolution of that journey, from the establishment of the Welsh Parliament in 1999 to late 2020, as Wales readies itself for the launch of a radical, new national curriculum. Drawing from a range of international literature and experience, it provides an overview of key policy developments and insight into the rationale for decisions taken by the Welsh Government to effect change. To do this, it separates reform into three core phases, each with its own characteristics borne out of landmark events that helped shape contemporary political and public discourse. In particular, the paper examines the impact of Wales' shifting approach to policy development on the teaching workforce and considers implications for those at the site of practice. Ahead of forthcoming parliamentary elections, the paper resolves that a new, long-term approach to policy reform and teacher development is needed if Wales is to realise its ambitious vision for education.

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In this contribution the author takes stock of the extent to which R2P has both met and fallen short of the dreams of its founders since its endorsement by the 2005 World Summit. As an effective reactive counter-force to atrocity crimes already under way, R2P's record has been disappointing. But as an institutional catalyst and preventive mechanism it has been generally successful, and as a normative force it has been, and remains, very influential.