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IPA REVIEW ESTABLISHED in 1947 by CHARLES KEMP, FOUNDING DIRECTOR of the 1NS 1Tlule of PUBLIC AFFAIRS Vol IPA REVIEW ESTABLISHED IN 1947 BY CHARLES KEMP, FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF ThE 1NS 1TlUlE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Vol. 45 No. 3,1992 Inside the Covers of Ros Kellys Education Kit 7 Crises and Commitments in South-East Asia 51 Ron Brunton DavidAnderson The kits example of harmonious living is bizarre. Pace Paul Keating, Australia has in fact pursued an active and independent Asian policy for decades. Private Firearm Ownership Terrorism and Justice 53 and Democratic Rights 10 Claude Rakisits David Leyonhjelm Five principles against which non-conventional The case for further restricting gun warfare should be measured. ownership is based more on hysteria than on reason. Political Activism and Literary Decline 55 R J. Stove Green, but not Clever 13 When their creative juices run dry, writers turn to Peter McGregor politics — or is it vice versa? The author of an educational series responds to common myths about industry and the environment. Health Services: A Potential Export Industry 22 John Popper Australia has some of the worlds best clinical Letters 2 services; we just refuse to market them. Moore Economics 4 Des Moore The Economics and Ethics of Takeovers 26 The Federal Budget fails to provide the basis for a Norman Bany sustained improvement to employment. Are corporate raiders the evil predators their critics make them out to be? IPA Indicators 8 The private sector has taken the brunt of job losses. Beyond Self-Interest: ethics and the market 31 Debate 18 Rob Ferguson Should the ABC be privatized? Managers should heed Mark Twains warning: "Fish go bad.from the head first." Around the States 20 Mike Nahan Making the Police More Accountable 34 Pump-priming is back in vogue. Eric Home Strange Times 24 A former policeman argues that an independent Ken Baker inspectorate is essential if police are to command The churches in a devils pact. public confidence. Down to Earth 59 Where Man is Not, Ron Brunton Nature is Barren 36 Moral panic fuels Roger Sworder the green movement. Environmentalism turns Man - IPA News 61 into a passive spectator of Nature. The Governor-General opens the IPAs new premises. Feminist Wars 40 Jan Smith Editor Ken Baker Design: Bob Caswell Associates. Production Amistants Tracey Seto. Feminism meets political correctness. Advertising: Rod Tremain Media Ph: (02) 955 3545; Fx (02) 955 3646. Printing Wilke Color, 37 Browns Road, Clayton, 3168. A Time of Uncertainty 43 Published by the Institute of Public Affairs Ltd (Incorporated in the Paul Dibb ACT). ACN 008 627 727. ISSN: 1030 4177. Insecurity in the Asia-Pacific region. Editorial and Production Office: Ground Floor, 128-136 Jolimont Road, Jolimont, Vic, 3002. Ph: (03) 654 7499; Fx (03) 650 7627. New Light on Bougainville 49 Subscriptions: $40 per annum (includes bimonthly Facts). David Anderson Unsolicited manuscripts are welcomed. However, potential con- tributors are advised to discuss proposals for articleswith the Editor. Australians know more about Bosnia than the trouble Views expressed in the publications of the IPA arc those of the to our near north in Bougainville. authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute. LETTERS Social Responsibility correspondence. The fundamental na- Dear Editor, ture of our political arrangements D.A. Ryans rationalization for a Dear Editor, (republic vs monarchy) is far, far more new flag (IPA Review, Vol. 45 No. 2) Charles Richardsons article on than mere silent symbolism. How we, demonstrates the failure of an intellect whether corporations should be socially the citizens, control our uppity servant, to understand feelings. He says opposi- responsible (Vol. 45 No. 2) might be our government, is (or should be) of the tion to change comes, puzilingly, from deemed a trifle irresponsible itself. It most basic interest to us all. There are "sentimental rather than logical could have informed a reader of the all too many examples in this world, reasons." theoretical basis underlying Professor both now and in the past, where the He is only puzzled because he cant Friedmans argument in favour of profit controller and controlled have swapped feel. -Nor can he logically recognize that maximization. That would be the con- places to the detriment of those who the real person lies in feelings, not in the tentions of pareto optimality whereby if really matter: the people. mechanism of the intellect. firms seek only to maximize their profits By contrast the flag is but a symbol In that sense, he is depriving himself — a most powerful symbol to be sure. then societys resources are used so ef- of the benefit of valuing both intellect Should it be changed it will be a sad, ficiently that it would be impossible to and sentiment. And my sentiments on make anyone better off without harming probably infuriating, day for many (in- this issue are expressed as follows: someone else. cluding me) but that alone is unlikely to lead to either riot or mass conscription With regard to your other cor- LOGIC respondent, Terry Lane, it is obviously to the salt mines. difficult to disagree with the claim that So the strongest opposition to a Which one is true: any "restriction on freedom of speech is change in the flag should be, contrary to The logic of the intellect or the a cause for concern." Ryans view, for "sentimental rather heart When each one seems to stand so You did, however, later in the issue than logical reasons." As a symbol the far apart? quote Santayana as saying that "those flag is strengthened by tradition and who forget the lessons of history are longevity. To change it in response to Which one is you: condemned to repeat them." So please the whim of the moment means the loss The warmth of the heart, the icy permit me to quote that eminent writer, of the myriad attachments that so many cold of reason Paul Johnson, with a lesson from his- people presently have to it, in the hope When each one to the other can tory: namely that "it is sometimes ar- that a new design will, in due course, seem treason? attract new attachments. We would gued that satire...is a sign of health in a Each one is you: thereby drop all its present emotional free society and that no restrictions Your spirit uses both to find value back to a baseline of zero and start should be placed on it. Jewish history expression. does not lend support to this view. The again from scratch. What a waste! Each needs to be expressed Jews have been more frequently the tar- I do not care if the flags flying over without repression. get of such attacks than any other group our warrior forefathers heads were the Each one is true: and they know from long and bitter ex- red versions of our present flag. I do not care that it is constructed from three The mind to reason and the perience that the violence of print is heart to feeling - often the prelude to the violence of separate items, of which two do not relate to Australia (only the Federation The mind incisive as the blood. Weimar was, by German stand- heart is healing. ards, an ultra-liberal society and one of star is ours). I do care that the flag, as a the effects of its liberation was to whole, as it stands, has been the flag of destroy most restraints in the press." Australia, my Australia, from my ear- My feelings at present are that we liest, dimmest recollection. need to bend our minds much more ur- Michael Schwartz Our flag is an indivisible symbol not gently to the needs of our million un- Doncaster, V c. of its components, but of Australia. To employed than to arguing over a replace it with something else simply well-known and well-respected flag because that something else might bear which has symbolized the Australia for The Flag more apt figures would do nothing but which men and women have died and for Dear Editor, destroy it as a symbol. The best we could which many others have given us great hope for is that the new flag would lives of service. Like your correspondent, D.A. recover — in perhaps half a century - DA. Ryans reasons wont inspire Ryan, I would like to offer a few com- some of the emotional significance of any more love for a new flag than for an ments on our flag (IPA Review, Vol. 45 the old. old one. No. 2). It seems to me that everything Stephen Dawson, W.W. Mitchell, is around the wrong way in Ryans Duj^y, ACT. Willetton, WA. [PA Revi• Parliamentary Reform over 40 years. BTGs total revenues last companies at a rate of over one a week. Dear Editor, year were £30.71 million. We have some We have some 1,600 inventions in our 9,000 patents covering some 1,600 tech- portfolio of which 600 have been I read with interest the comments nologies, and the end product sales licensed to industrial manufacturers made by Tony Rutherford in his article value of currently licensed products worldwide. on `Improving Parliament (IPA Review, from BTG amounts to over $2 billion I trust this puts the record straight Vol. 45 No. 2) regarding the even-hand- per annum. for your readers. edness of the Speaker under a Last year we shared some £7.86 mil- Tony Chrismas Westminster convention. lion with inventive sources; invested Head of Corporate Communications In 1950 the Speaker of the House of £12.88 million in technologies and British Technology Group, London. Commons requested that he be given no received an inflow of 684 inventions - party label and since then Speakers have an increase of 31 per cent on the pre- sought re-election as `The Speaker and vious year.
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