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NEW Policy Monograph 84
The False Promise of GP Super Clinics, Part 1: Preventive Care
Jeremy Sammut
This policy monograph analyses the implications of the government’s preventive health agenda and finds that the evidence does not support the claims that are frequently made about the long-run benefits of focusing more heavily on prevention. [read more]

News from the CIS... hayden

On the 7 May, The P.P. McGuinness Memorial Library and the Centre’s expanded office facilities were officially opened by The Hon. Bill Hayden AC.
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We would also like to conratulate Peter Saunders on his election as a Distinguished Fellow of The Centre for Independent Studies.

NEW Issue Analysis 94
KiwiSaver or KiwiSucker? A Critical View
Phil Rennie
KiwiSaver is a pointless and expensive straitjacket on the New Zealand economy. The incentives added last year have made the scheme expensive, distorting, regressive, unfair, unstable, and unsustainable. [read more]

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8 May
Prevention is better than cure, but only if it works writes Jeremy Sammut in The Australian

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