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The article focuses on the relationship between the executive and the judiciary in respect of a legal case that provoked public outrage. This outrage entered into the media spectacle and was channelled by the executive into calling a royal commission. The royal commission was charged with re‐examining the police actions and the legal case. However, hidden behind its narrow terms of reference was the larger question of justice being 'blind' to a network of privilege. As such, the royal commission had the potential to threaten the independence of the judiciary.

This illuminating account of child day-care policies and practice in Britain casts a dark shadow over equality in that country. Through the exploration of the simple question of why the public provision of child care has been so meager in Britain, Vicky Randall presents a compelling account not just of policy failure but of a general disinterest in child care as an equal opportunity issue. For her, there are intrinsic flaws in British society that have hindered the provision and funding of public child care in that country. The reason for this systemic inequality is to be found, principally, in the British brand of liberalism, combined with the country's institutional structures, both of which have operated from the premise that child care is a private concern.

There are high expectations that the HIH Royal Commission will uncover the truth about the collapse of the HIH insurance group and bring to justice the individuals and organistions culpable for the losses incurred. This article argues that this hope for veracity flies in the face of other royal commissions into financial issues in Australia which were but verisimilitude.

The following article tells the story of the selling of the South Australian water and sewerage supply to an overseas consortium. The paper argues that the contract was invested with the dual identity of the State's economic progress and the leadership aspirations of its chief advocate Minister John Olsen. The argument is that the contract was shallow and probing by Parliament and the media hardly touched the surface. The finding is that the combination of globalisation and media representation saw the erosion of Parliamentary accountability.

ABSTRACT
This paper is concerned with the construction of truth. The introduction gives the necessary background to the subsequent discussion of two publicly funded inquiries into the causes of the debt crises of the State Bank of South Australia (SBSA). The rest of the paper tells the story of these two inquiries using the metaphor of a circus, where the multiple reasons for the Bank's difficulties become reduced to a single truth; that of political failure. The article concludes with an epilogue saying that this truth has now displaced all others and has become metaphorically speaking a prologue for the privatisation and globalisation of the local economy.

1. Transformed Australian Eduscape: the Mobility of Asian International Students and Academics -- 2. Theorising the Eduscape I: the Neoliberal, the Managerial and the Regulatory State -- 3. Theorising the Eduscape II: Contesting 'Modernity', the Global South and Alternative Framing -- 4. Asian International Students on Australian Campus -- 5. Asian Academic Mobility in Australia -- 6. Mobility and Governance: toward an internationalised higher education?