Editors: Kerry

productivity. Conservative national economic management.

Environmental hazards.

rising pressures to innovate. Slow globalisation of labour markets.

across the board. By global standards, Australia is a highly open economy and market pressures are important for innovation and entrepreneurship, and for

avoiding monopoly and oligopoly.

overseas.

beneficial and that domestic subsidies (arising from special pleading) are expensive and damaging to national competitiveness and aggregate wealth.

sentiment and multi-lateral gains appear increasingly rare, fuelling increasing numbers of bi-lateral relationships. The uncertain commitment of all Australian governments to vigorous pursuit of efficiency.

domestic public management in many countries. The rising incidence of failed states.

orientation when informed, knowledgeable and financially secure. These conditions also underpin social diversity and tolerance.

Ironically immigrant societies are much less amenable to conservative capture and more optimistic about future events.

immigrant skills will rise with economic growth, the transition to a creative society, and peaking workforce participation rates.

change, ecological damage, resource depletion or exhaustion, insufficient capital investment in infrastructure. Many trade-offs could affect immigration

policies and their application.

trade-offs between competing ends (economic, social or environmental).

rising technologies to create sustainable and renewable resources; the substitution of resources

; international conflict over access to strategic

resources