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India must realise its ‘soft’ power potential over China
India is well placed to become a leader in the Asian Century but it first must fully develop both its ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ power credentials argues a new report released by The Centre for Independent...... Read More
Fresh Thinking Needed for Fresher Food
Outback Stores in remote Indigenous communities have done nothing to improve healthy eating in these areas, argues a new report released by The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) this week.... Read More
Taking Out the Trash: Treating Red Tape as Pollution
Red tape and excessive regulation should be treated as pollution, argues a new report released by The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) today.... Read More
China is neither friend nor foe
China is too big, too proud and too independently mined to be tamed states a new report released by the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) this week.... Read More
Henry Review Must Target Disability Pension, Says CIS Report
The Henry Review should seize the opportunity to move Disability Support Pension (DSP) reform out of the ‘too hard’ basket, says a report released by The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) this week.... Read More
No Excuses Schooling Needed to End High Indigenous Failure Rates
The bottom 150 schools in Australia are nearly all Indigenous schools when ranked using the 2009 NAPLAN results, highlights a new report released by The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) this week.... Read More
REJOICE! TAX FREEDOM DAY IS FRIDAY, 9 APRIL
Australians will spend the first 98 days of this year working for the government. ‘April 9 marks the first day Australians will start working for themselves, or Tax Freedom Day,’ according to Centre...... Read More
Kick-Starting Kiwi democracy: Why New Zealand Should Abandon MMP
New Zealanders need to seize the opportunity of the upcoming referendum on electoral reform and reinvent their system of government says a new report from The Centre for Independent Studies.... Read More
Indigenous Australians Denied Employment by Inept Polices
Indigenous unemployment is stuck at 15% while unemployment in the rest of Australia is back to 5.3%. Yet in their paper Indigenous Employment, Unemployment and Labour Force Participation: Facts for Evidence...... Read More
Taxing Times Must Not Hold Back Income Tax Reform
Tax reform will be hollow without significant personal income tax reform, argues a new report being released on Wednesday.... Read More
Research Shows More to a Federal Charter of Rights Than Meets the Eye
Australian evidence shows that a national charter of rights would hinder democracy, argues a new report being released Thursday. In Behind the Moral Curtain: The Politics of a Charter of Rights, CIS policy...... Read More
Indigenous Health Short-Changed by a Lack of Accountability
Over the past 10 years, funding for Indigenous health programs has increased by 245% with no appreciable improvements in health outcomes, shows a new report being released this Wednesday.... Read More
Like the Curates Egg
Bennett Report misdiagnoses our nation’s future health needs... Read More
No Gain in High Capital Tax Burden
The review of the tax system currently being undertaken by Treasury Secretary Ken Henry (The Henry review) should work towards alleviating the high tax burden on capital through extending the current concessional...... Read More
The Importance of India: restoring sight to Australia’s strategic blind spot
Australia’s eyes wide shut to India: Australia must recognise the growing confidence, power and influence of India if we are to remain a relevant middle power within our own region, argues a report being...... Read More
On the Right Track: Why NSW Needs Business Class Rail
NSW TRAINS NEED AN UPGRADE TO BUSINESS CLASS: Rail connections between Sydney and neighbouring cities need to improve substantially and business class carriages would be a good first step, says a report...... Read More
IA 118: Shock and Awe
American debt brewing another economic storm: America’s massive fiscal deficit has the potential to spur a second crisis, says a new report being released Wednesday.... Read More
What's Next for Welfare to work? IA117
Mixed results leave room for more welfare reform “There are more than 100,000 fewer recipients of Parenting Payment Single and Parenting Payment Partnered now than there were in 2006,” says a new...... Read More
A Streak of Hypocrisy
THIS YEAR’S CHRISTMAS LUNCH FOR RETIREES WILL BE AT THE EXPENSE OF YOUNG TAXPAYERS: Net household saving in Australia have plunged from 12% of GDP in the 1960s to around 5% today.Borrowing to purchase...... Read More
Bureaucrat-Run Hospitals a Health Hazard for Australians
It’s time for public hospitals to once again become the trusted and well-run institutions they used to be, says a new report being released Thursday. In The Past is the Future for Public Hospitals:...... Read More
