This volume deals with the nature of professional education and the need to produce professionals who are capable of reflection upon practice. It derives comprehensive guidelines for developing curricula and teaching methods that encourage reflective thinking.

As Australia moves into a millennium that promises major economic, social, technological and environmental change, much of it potentially beyond our comprehension, Australia 21 has assembled leading thinkers to give their perspectives on the extent and direction of resilience across Australia's social, economic and ecological systems.

In the coming half century humanity faces a planetary crisis that will affect everyone. A doubling in human demand for food is set to collide with increasing scarcities of the very resources needed to grow our food - water, land, energy, nutrients and knowledge. Urgent action is now needed to ensure global food security.

Is about speech and the silencing of speech; about who gets to speak and who does not; about who is listened to and who is ignored. In this analysis of the democratic principle of freedom of speech Betty McLellan insists that, if this prized democratic principle is to have any continuing credibility, free speech must be free for all.

This book is the outcome of a report called 'Will They Be Heard?' launched in November 2009 by the Hon. Malcolm Fraser. Using pictures and quotations taken from footage of actual consultations, it provides a graphic account of the depth of frustration and despair of many Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory regarding the intervention.