Economic Policy
Freely functioning markets embedded in robust institutions underpin the strong economies that give Australians and New Zealanders the capacity and power, as individuals and through voluntary and public sector organisations, to help those who experience hardship and to play their part in maintaining our physical environments.
The advent of the Global Financial Crisis is giving rise to even bigger government hence the CIS sees an increasingly urgent need for further and continuing economic reform. It is especially important that we rationalise the regulatory environment and reform the way services are provided by the public sector. The new policies we need should be based on the same kinds of fundamental economic principles that have underpinned reforms of the financial system and product markets.
Publications
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Relics of a Byzantine IR System: Why Awards Should Be Abolished
| 23 May 2013 | Issue AnalysisAwards are uniquely Australian, and practically as old as the country itself. But in Australia’s modern, competitive economy,... Read More...
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Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It
| 30 Apr 2013 | TARGET30 Research PapersHigh growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government... Read More...
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TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It
| 30 Apr 2013 | TARGET30 SnapshotsHigh growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government... Read More...
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After the Welfare State: Politicians Stole Your Future … You Can Get It Back
| 08 Apr 2013 | Occasional PapersHistory, economics, sociology, political science, and mathematics are the tools to understand and evaluate welfare states,... Read More...
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Tax Welfare Churn and the Australian Welfare State
| 27 Mar 2013 | TARGET30 Research PapersThe welfare state currently consumes $316 billion a year; however, much of this spending is not targeted at those who need... Read More...
Opinion & Commentary
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Gillard Deal Risks NDIS Timebomb
| 13 May 2013 | The Australian Financial ReviewIn its eagerness to lock in the funding and governance arrangements for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), ... Read More
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Only a super-style savings system now will help Medicare survive
| 30 Apr 2013 | The AustralianTHE intergenerational reports have told us repeatedly that escalating government spending on health is unsustainable in an ... Read More
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It’s time for surgery: the public purse is in dire health
| 26 Apr 2013 | The Australian Financial ReviewReducing inefficient spending may harm vested interests, but meaningful reform cannot occur if no one is ever allowed to ... Read More
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The magic pudding state
| 23 Apr 2013 | The DrumAustralians want government to spend more money on us, but we do not want to hand any more of our cash over to the tax office.... Read More
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Need to cut fat before we all pay the price
| 11 Mar 2013 | The AustralianGovernments are seemingly incapable of breaking their addiction to increasing spending.... Read More
Ideas@TheCentre
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The elusive budget surplus
| 17 May 2013The idea that we will have a balanced budget by 2015-16 should be met with healthy scepticism....
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Timid cuts to middle class welfare
| 17 May 2013The budget has delivered a new tax and some tinkering with the FTB system to pay for DisabilityCare instead of serious reforms ...
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Tax rises are not savings
| 17 May 2013This budget is further evidence that governments remain addicted to spending, and that is why it is time for TARGET30....
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Prospects for NDIS blowout
| 10 May 2013The NDIS could experience average annual growth of around 8% per year, which would make the entire scheme financial unsustainable ...
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How to save the health system
| 03 May 2013Creating a health savings-based system would go a long way in solving the affordability problems facing Medicare....
