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'Beneath the Southern Cross: Increasing Trade Between Argentina & Australia' is a research report designed to demonstrate the benefit to be attained by Australia broadening its trade relationships from the traditional markets of USA, EU and Asia into the newly developing region of Latin America. As a means of establishing this, the report argues Australia has the capacity for this increase and Argentina provides a viable entry point. Argentina's ability to act as a conduit to the rest of Latin America is due to the size of its economy and membership in MERCOSUR, which would place Australia in a favourable position with other members. The motivation for increasing the importance given to Latin America now, while it is still a developing region, is to establish close business and political links before development accelerates and creates greater competition in the region. Although the report is designed to demonstrate Australia will enjoy longer-term benefits when development accelerates, it also argues there are short-term benefits associated with the expansion of trade and the three focus areas for initial expansion will enjoy both immediate and longer-term increases. Education, tourism and nuclear technology were elected as focus areas for increasing trade for several reasons. Education and tourism exports in Australia contribute significantly to Australia's exports and are arguably capable of further increasing their importance in the Australian economy by expanding into new markets. Nuclear technology on the other hand, is a recent development in the Australian political arena in which Argentina has the capacity to increase its exports to Australia. Education and tourism both increase beneficial relationships between nations and act as cures to the negative stereotypes occasionally attributed to Latin American nations which label them poor and insignificant in terms of world trade. Education in particular is a mutually beneficial area for increasing trade by allowing Australia to provide the high quality education of a developed nation which is not available in Argentina on a broad scale. In doing so, Australia gains increased profit and demand for universities whilst also gaining the added contribution to the economy of students living in Australia and increasing the education of local students by broadening the cultures and ideas they come into contact with. The report recommends that Australia should actively increase the export of education to Argentina by increasing the priority given to Argentina as a source of international students and for the Federal Government and the Department of Education, Science and Training to assist this increase through increasing their relationships with Argentine counterparts and their overall presence in the region. The effort begun by the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee was also commended and encouraged in the report as was the importance of continuing to increase the exchange of students, academics and information between Australian and Argentine universities. The report also argued for increasing the funding for universities to preserve or improve their global rankings as among the best universities in the world. The report further demonstrated that due to the large disparity in income distribution in Argentina, that there was a significant market of Argentine tourists which Australia was failing to attract due to an overall neglect at marketing and presence in the region. The report also argued the overly-invasive procedures which have to be endured by Argentines to gain visas act as deterrents to potential tourists and that this situation requires review. Although education and tourism were focused upon as areas in which Australia could increase its trade, nuclear power was included to demonstrate an area in which Argentina might increase its exports to Australia. As a very recent and therefore relevant topic, nuclear technology was argued to be an area in which Argentina has significant expertise from which Australia could benefit. The successful OPAL project is testament to Argentina's capacity, therefore increasing the level of interaction between our nations in this area is fitting given the strong basis which has developed as a result of the project. The report argued that due to Australia's resources of uranium and Argentina's resources of technology and expertise, a mutually beneficial relationship should be pursued by both governments. Ultimately, Beneath The Southern Cross demonstrates that Australia and Argentina no longer have any valid reasons for continuing to neglect trade relationships with one-another and by continuing to do so, are losing many opportunities. The report argues that delaying any improvement in the level of trade and relationships between our nations until Argentina's development accelerates would hinder our ability to successfully engage with Latin America as competition from other nations would also have increased. It took large scale political and economic effort to engage with Asia once development had accelerated during the late 1980s and early 1990s and consequently, Australia should be trying to avoid a repetition of this by utilising foresight and longer-term market planning to engage with emerging areas earlier.

While Tony Blair has stated that income redistribution is not an explicit aim of his government, many of the changes it has made to the tax and benefit system have been redistributive. The experience to date highlights the challenge New Labour faces if it is to make further progress in reducing poverty and inequality. All the resources they have directed at low-income households since 1997 – and these have been considerable – have just about reduced child poverty by a quarter, while overall poverty rates and inequality have only fallen marginally or not at all. To reduce poverty further will require substantially more redistribution to the poorest, especially those unable to work. To reduce inequality will almost certainly require something to be done to curb the growth in very high incomes, as well as measures to address the long-term drivers of inequality.

This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing from the 1990s to the present, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians entered a new conversation on race relations. Writing served as an outlet for understanding sovereignty, colonial history and the future of society.

"In the twenty-first century, nuclear energy has become a hotly contested issue. In the face of climate change, and the search for alternative forms of energy, nuclear power continues to affect the lives of communities around the world. In Nuclear Portraits, scholars from Europe, North America, and Asia demonstrate the complexity, controversy, contradictions, and dangers that surround many aspects of the nuclear industry. The resulting local, regional, national, and international concerns that arise, such as the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, call into question the optimism espoused by the nuclear industry. We live in a world with more nuclear nations than ever before and energy policy is central to the mounting global concern about climate change. The innovative essays found in Nuclear Portraits will open your eyes to the realities of nuclear energy, thereby allowing you to decide for yourself whose side you are on."--

J.L. Cohen, one of the first specialists in labour law and an architect of the Canadian industrial relations system, was a formidable advocate in the 1930s and 1940s on behalf of working people. A 'radical lawyer' in the tradition of the great American counsel Clarence Darrow or contemporary advocate Thomas Berger who represent the less powerful and seek to reform society and to protect civil liberties, Cohen was also a 'labour intellectual' in Canada, similar to those supporting Roosevelt's New Deal in the United States. He wrote Collective Bargaining in Canada, served on the National War Labour Board during the war, and advised the Ontario government about policy issues such as mothers' allowances, unemployment insurance legislation, and labour law. As a Marxist and a Jewish immigrant, his commitment to the labour movement resulted in part from his background and was deepened by his experience of the 1930s Depression. His was an unusual perspective for a middle class professional, and his ethnic origins and his political views subjected him to discrimination. Though respected professionally, he made enemies. At the end of the war, Cohen was convicted of a criminal charge, was disbarred and later reinstated, and died suddenly in 1950 at the age of fifty-three. Though he rose to the top of his profession, he had a difficult, complex private life that contributed to his personal disgrace and professional downfall. His obituary in the Globe and Mail described him as a dynamic, sharp-witted man who rose from humble beginnings to become the most influential labour lawyer in Canada, and it concluded with what may be a fitting epitaph, 'He championed all the wrong people in all the right things.'

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General editors' preface; Preface; Contributors; Table of legislation and international instruments; Table of cases; Abbreviations; 1 General introduction; 2 Mistake, misrepresentation and precontractual duties to inform: the civil law tradition; 3 The rise and fall of mistake in the English law of contract; 4 Case studies; 5 Comparative conclusions; Index.