Publications

Selected IPA Publications

• Biotechnology is bioterrific, not bioterrifying
• Big fat beat up
• The Hollowmen and the sport of satire
• Gordon Ramsay’s Worst Recipes
• The politics of wheat
• The four ways of reading – book review of How to Read the Bible
• The world is getting better
• Awkward problems in social policy: women and welfare under Howard
• Why do governments hate bed and breakfasts?
• Contains cheese: Food labelling and healthy eating in Australia
• How to destroy a country town

Opinion Pieces

• ACCC in dangerous game of monopoly
• Case is overwhleming to extend shop hours
• Wheat change is coming: time to help not hinder
• Ingrained prejudice
• Climate change? No, drought!
• Food’s minority seeking main course
• Are STD rates being milked?
• Red tape makes things tough for volunteers
• Liberal women will rise up

Journal Articles and Conference Presentations

• Staley, L. (2005). Regulating social capital: implications for communities of place. Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association: Community Place Change, University of Tasmania.
• Staley, L. (2005). Regulating social capital? Conceptual and methodological issues. Reconfigurations: Mid-Year Research Seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne.
• Staley, L. (forthcoming). “Social Capital as a tool for public policy: Clarifying the foundations of a contested concept.”

Some Interviews and Other Mentions

• Send in the tanks – the role of think tanks in Australia
• Food: local or global – interview on Radio National
• The impact of regulations on rural communities – interview on ABC radio 5AA