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Center for American Progress
The Affordable Care Act in America expands the current requirements for the collection and analysis of health care disparities data. Dr Lesley Russell says these data will be critical...
Center for American Progress
Lesley Russell contends the ultimate goal must be that all Americans, regardless of race or ethnicity, get the quality health care services they need when they need them. Dr...
The Age
Obama's America is now centrist, pro-business and pro-trade - a far cry from the lofty left-liberal goals of two years ago, says Professor Geoffrey Garrett. He argues the path back to...
On Line Opinion
We live in a post-9/11 world where many Americans want to feel safe and at ease when they travel, according to Will Turner. All the more reason, he says, to...
The Courier-Mail
Tom Switzer says the mass leaking of diplomatic cables can cause real harm to not only security but the principle of transparency itself. Tom Switzer is a research associate at the...
The Sydney Morning Herald
The latest Wikileaks controversy confirms widely held suspicions of just how clear and pragmatic governments are about their national interests, using words they would never utter nor admit to...
The Canberra Times
Lesley Russell says both the United States and Australia have too many preventable adverse events occuring in their hospitals. Dr Russell argues it is clearly time in Australia for a...
The Canberra Times
Few government and industry policies on climate change and energy have considered the relationship with water, which is a significant oversight according to Jamie Pittock and Dr Karen Hussey...
Literature Interpretation Theory
This article examines how racial perceptions manifest themselves across a range of post-9/11 fictions. Assistant Professor Georgiana Banita argues that American literature after 9/11 has sought to alleviate the pressure...
by Jennifer Silva and Allison Pugh in Sociological Inquiry
A great deal of scholarship investigates the effects of parenting on adults who parent. While existing literature has identified the ways in which parenting...
Fox News Opinion (online)
Tom Switzer says the delegates gathering in Cancun for the latest United Nations climate conference are in a state of severe, almost clinical, denial if they think they will...
Sydney Morning Herald
The global story is increasingly about the interaction between concerns about energy security and the parlous state of most western economies, rather than climate change, argues Geoffrey Garrett. Professor Garrett...
The Australian
The loss of America's credibility and prestige from the Bush era has continued under Barack Obama, resulting in a reduced ability to lead and persuade other powers, says Tom Switzer. Tom...
The Canberra Times
Dr Lesley Russell weighs up whether the policy of individuals making co-payments towards their visits to healthcare professionals is a positive for societies in Australia and the United States. Dr...
The Canberra Times
The Australian system isn't perfect but a US-style elected judiciary is not the answer, says David Weisbrot. David Weisbrot is Professor of Legal Policy at the US Studies Centre.
The Drum Unleashed (ABC online)
Tom Switzer says minor allies like Australia, however loyal, should not expect inconvenient loyalty from a superpower. Tom Switzer is a research associate at the US Studies Centre...
The Australian
Following trips to the Asia-Pacific by both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Geoffrey Garrett says that building a network of pro-market democracies across the Pacific increases the chance China will one...
On Line Opinion
Was the recent election of a Republican majority in the US House of Representatives the death knell for "change we can believe in"? Brendon O'Connor, Associate Professor in American Politics...
The Australian
Densely developed cities such as Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York rarely come to mind as models of environmentalism, but they should, writes chief executive of the Congress for the New...
The Australian
Tom Switzer says the foul mood of the American electorate toward its political leaders stem from expectations about the US's right to economic prosperity and global leadership that no administration or...
