“Autocracy is an obsolete form of rule.. And therefore this form of rule and the Orthodoxy connected to it can be supported, as it is today, only through violence, excessive security measures, administrative exiles, executions, religious persecutions, the banning of books and newspapers, warped education and all sorts of evil and cruel acts.”

Tolstoy to Tsar Nicholas II, Letter,  1901

Lev Tolstoi I Russki Tsari, Moscow, 1995, pp. 106-7

Latest Papers

The working papers collection comprises historical papers as well as current ideas and works in progress on some of the major issues and topics of our times.

Indigenous Values & Entrepreneurship (released 1 August 2006)
How can the values of individual entrepreneurship and traditional culture be reconciled? Inspiration from the life of Chief James Sewid 1913-1988
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Labor's New Generation? (released 1 August 2006)
A policy agenda against which to measure the new generation
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Green v Black (released 1 August 2006)
Environmental opposition to Indigenous cattle stations is deeply flawed.
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Indigenous Cattle Stations (released 1 August 2006)
Reviving the Indigenous cattle industry
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Practical Ideas for People with Disabilities and their advocates (released 1 August 2006)
Ideas to create more inclusive communities
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Professor Whiskers (released 1 August 2006)
Harold Hunt and the story of an Indigenous fight back against alcoholism
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Remaking the Cape York Culture, Economy and Society (released 1 August 2006)
An early insight into Noel and Gerhardt Pearson's strategies on Cape York Peninsula.
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Labor's Navel (released 1 August 2006)
Labor's internal politics seems to subsume all at times.
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Letters of Praise (released 1 August 2006)
A social business with a difference
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Indigenous Stock Exchange (released 1 August 2006)
Some of the original ideas behind the development of the ISX
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