THE POLITICS OF JUSTICE by Gareth Evans ABSTRACT: How can we improve the quality of Parliamentary law-making? How can we improve the quality of law-making by the courts, and especially the High Court? What changes are necessary, in both the workings of Parliament and in the style approach, and composition of the courts, to make the law more sensitively reflect ongoing social change?

Australian social democracy is facing the electoral wilderness, its traditional institutional bases are in decline and there is increasing political fragmentation on the left of politics. Is there a way forward for Australian social democracy? Can social democracy overcome this current crisis and be renewed?