Volume 7 Number 1 January 10 - February 13 2011
If you enter the term ‘medical tourism’ into Google, more than 2.6 million hits appear. Yet despite this industry’s impressive growth, its social and economic impact on developing nations has been largely overlooked, according to PhD student Kristen Smith, who argues this reflects a global shift towards the privatisation and commercialisation of healthcare which has served to devalue the idea of health as a social or human right. Emma O’Neill reports.
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Volume 6 Number 12 December 13 2010 - January 9 2011
With the announcement by the United Nations that it has chosen Melbourne to be the worldwide headquarters for its corporate social responsibility (CSR) program, David Scott talks to Dr Ben Neville to find out about it.
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Volume 6 Number 11 November 8 - December 12 2010
Lia Kent, a PhD candidate in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, looks at the claims and reality of the United Nations transitional justice program in East Timor.
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Volume 6 Number 11 November 8 - December 12 2010
The following is an extract from the 2010 John Barry Memorial Lecture to be presented by Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow Peter Norden AO on 11 November. The Barry lecture series has been presented by the Barry Family and the Criminology discipline in the School of Social and Political Sciences since 1972.
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Volume 6 Number 11 November 8 - December 12 2010
On 16 June Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis signed a Statement of Commitment to develop a Reconciliation Action Plan for the University of Melbourne. In September, its Senior Executive ratified this commitment. Gabrielle Murphy reports on the process being followed.
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Volume 6 Number 10 October 11 - November 7 2010
He was Barack Obama’s California State Director before he was even eligible to vote. Chicago University politics major Patrick Ip, who moves on the world stage, found himself in Melbourne earlier this year for the 63rd United Nations Conference on Global Health. He is looking to return in the future as a graduate student.
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Volume 6 Number 8 August 9 - September 12 2010
There is a fear that while Australian politics has the trappings of democracy, political parties unwittingly mask a system where political power rests with only a few rich and powerful citizens and corporations. The following is an extract from Money & Politics: The democracy we can’t afford, the new book from Melbourne Law School political finance expert Dr Joo-Cheong Tham.
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Volume 6 Number 3 March 8 - April 12 2010
A leading Qur’anic scholar and Muslim feminist, Professor Amina Wadud, has challenged the ‘received tradition’ of a vertical relationship between Allah, man and woman, and reconstructed it as a horizontal relationship of reciprocity, or equality, with the male and female pair united in surrender to Allah.
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Volume 6 Number 7 July 12 - August 8 2010
To coincide with the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 2010 conference – ‘To Corrupt and Deprave’ – an exhibition in the Baillieu Library at the University of Melbourne explores the issue of “banned books” and censorship in Australia. By Zoe Nikakis and Katherine Smith.
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