Several studies have examined trends in mean temperatures in the Australian (e.g. Coughlan 1979; Torok and Nicholls 1996), New Zealand (e.g. Salinger 1995) and southwest Pacific (e.g. Salinger 1995) regions. In recent years additional papers have also investigated temporal trends in temperature extremes and, in a few cases, temperature variability (e.g. Collins et al. 2000; Manton et al. 2001; ...

These are three quite different papers, from very different perspectives. John Quiggin adopts a micro approach; Warwick McKibbin’s views are informed by research on optimal policy regimes in large-scale macro models, while Peter Stemp’s comments are mainly based on the literature which deals with institutional structure and incentives for monetary policy. I want to respond to a couple of points...

Measuring and comparing performance in local government is controversial for good reasons. When these initiatives expand beyond purely academic considerations and are implemented in practice, several unintended consequences are likely to arise. These include an excessive focus on particular aspects of governance, strategic responses to maximise scores, unaccounted effects of exogenous variables...

The current state-of-the-art in flood damage analysis mainly focuses on the economic evaluation of tangible flood effects. It is contended in this discussion paper that important economic, social and ecological aspects of flood-related vulnerabilities are neglected. It is a challenge for flood research to develop a wider perspective for flood damage evaluation.

During the past year the Bank has continued to conduct research on a range of issues related to its areas of policy responsibility. Some of the major themes in 1996 were monetary policy and inflation, the behaviour of financial markets, international macroeconomic linkages, and developments in the Australian financial system. Results of this research are made available to the public in a number...

plato 1s doctrine of recollection is often identified witb innatism, and he is said to be an innatist. the present pape0 alongside j,vifh e:x:plaining this doctrine and other related doctrines in plato's epistemology, argues that the doctrine of recollection is not necessarily the same as innatism. it is a matter of fact that, in plato's epistemology1 perception and intellectual epist...

this paper attempts to investigate the adolescent narrator’s journey into adulthood in ahmad mahmoud’s the neighbor. considering the central character’s growth into adulthood, the paper argues that the compulsory military service can be fulfilled as a certain ‘rite of passage’ conventionalized within the society, as represented in the narrative. that is because, through this convention, khaled ...

Shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. Global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary in nature. This article argues that the distribution of power ...

This paper makes two contributions. (1) it argues that precise visual modelling techniques are important for modelling large-scale software components, as they facilitate the core activities of component-based software development (CBSD): building, finding, adapting and assembling components. The paper argues for a carefully selected set of techniques based on UML, to provide accessible yet pre...

This paper argues that the relation between marxism and feminism has, in all the forms it has so far taken, been an unequal one . While both marxist method and feminist analysis are necessary to an understanding of capitalist societies, and of the position of women within them, in fact feminism has consistently been subordinated . The paper presents a challenge to both marxist and radical femin...