摘要：Hard Heads and Soft Hearts is a compilation of opinions from some of the 80 papers presented to the Towards Opportunity and Prosperity Conference held in Melbourne in April 2002 and in articles written for The Australian newspaper in a lead up to the Conference. The Conference was organised by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research of the University of Melbourne and The Australian. The publication was edited by Peter Dawkins, Director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large, The Australian
