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Ideas@TheCentre

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3 short articles from CIS researchers emailed every Friday on the issues of the week.

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Publications

  1. A Fair Go: Fact or Fiction?

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 09 May 2013 | Policy Monographs

    The Australian ideal of a fair go is fact rather than fiction. By offering all individuals the opportunity to capitalise... Read More...

  2. Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It

    Jeremy Sammut | 30 Apr 2013 | TARGET30 Research Papers

    High growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government... Read More...

  3. TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It

    Jeremy Sammut | 30 Apr 2013 | TARGET30 Snapshots

    High growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government... Read More...

  4. In the Pay of the Piper: Governments, Not-for-Profits, and the Burden of Regulation

    Peter Kurti | 23 Apr 2013 | Issue Analysis

    Reforms intended to boost confidence in Australian charities risk turning the charitable sector into just another arm of... Read More...

  5. After the Welfare State: Politicians Stole Your Future … You Can Get It Back

    Tom Palmer | 08 Apr 2013 | Occasional Papers

    History, economics, sociology, political science, and mathematics are the tools to understand and evaluate welfare states,... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. My School sheds a welcome light

    Jennifer Buckingham | 17 May 2013 | The Australian

    If governments gather important information about schools and students, it should be available to everyone. The My School ... Read More

  2. The fair go is fact, not political platitude

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 16 May 2013 | ON LINE Opinion

    Australia's social escalator moves so quickly that the poorest Australians can find fortune in just a few years. With the ... Read More

  3. Gillard Deal Risks NDIS Timebomb

    Andrew Baker | 13 May 2013 | The Australian Financial Review

    In its eagerness to lock in the funding and governance arrangements for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), ... Read More

  4. Sorry, Mr Swan, the Australian fair go is still going strong

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 09 May 2013 | The Drum

    In the lead up to what is likely to be a budget bloodbath on 14 May, Treasurer Wayne Swan has come out swinging. Instead ... Read More

  5. Only a super-style savings system now will help Medicare survive

    Jeremy Sammut | 30 Apr 2013 | The Australian

    THE intergenerational reports have told us repeatedly that escalating government spending on health is unsustainable in an ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. A tale of two houses

    Helen Hughes AO, Mark Hughes | 24 May 2013

    For years, excuses have been used to hide the discriminatory state and federal policies that deny individual property rights ...

  2. Education is key for Aboriginal Australia

    Nigel Parbury | 24 May 2013

    This budget is further evidence that governments remain addicted to spending, and that is why it is time for TARGET30....

  3. Timid cuts to middle class welfare

    Andrew Baker | 17 May 2013

    The budget has delivered a new tax and some tinkering with the FTB system to pay for DisabilityCare instead of serious reforms ...

  4. Fair go fear-mongering flies in the face of facts

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 10 May 2013

    Swan’s fair go fear-mongering is unfounded. Australians from even the poorest and least educated families are entering ...

  5. Prospects for NDIS blowout

    Andrew Baker | 10 May 2013

    The NDIS could experience average annual growth of around 8% per year, which would make the entire scheme financial unsustainable ...

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