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NEW Policy Monograph 86
CDEP: Help or Hindrance?

The Community Development Employment Projects program was established to help Indigenous Australians move from welfare into work. But despite its good intentions, thirty years of CDEP have proved that it is preventing Indigenous people from getting mainstream jobs. [read more]
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On 26 June 2008, the Hon. Tony Abbott MP, addressed a CIS lunch gathering to discuss his thoughts on the Northern Territory intervention one year on.
To read the transcript [click here]
rulechaney_calvert-jonesTwo Distinguished Fellows
On 25 June, the CIS appointed Michael Chaney and John Calvert-Jones as CIS Distinguished Fellows at a celebratory dinner to recognise their outstanding support of the Centre over a period of many years.
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Policy Monograph 85
The False Promise of GP Super Clinics, Part 2: Coordinated Care

This is the second of a pair of Policy Monographs that examine the evidence base and assumptions of four key health policy areas. Each of these areas is widely considered to be pertinent to whether the Medicare system will be sustainable into the twenty-first century [read more]
   
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Let people be free to choose independence from the state says John Humphreys in the Australian FInancial Review

 
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