The first year experience at university and issues relating to retention rates continue to attract the attention of educationalists. This article investigates the relative importance of a wide range of variables that may impact student performance at the first year level. The multiyear data set...

Warren Hogan is an influential and colourful Australian economist who contributed substantially to the economics profession in this country and to public life more generally as senior advisor to business and government. A prolific researcher, mentor to innumerable students, Hogan was Professor...

Clive Hamilton provides an assault on free market ideology and the ‘depredations of neoliberalism’ in affluent countries. He alleges that ‘Laissez‐faire capitalism has been marked by devastating failures’ leading to ‘societies characterised by a pervading and deep‐rooted malaise’...