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Government and Politics

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Individual freedom and prosperity depends on having healthy institutions.  Ever expanding government and regulation leads to less competition and in turn a less responsive public sector.  The CIS examines the way government poses threats to maintaining a healthy civil society.

Publications

  1. Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies: The Sequel

    Adam Creighton, Oliver Marc Hartwich, Robert Carling | 30 Nov 2011 | Policy Forum

    What started as the US subprime crisis became the global financial crisis and has now developed into the Trans-Atlantic sovereign... Read More...

  2. Submission to the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Local Government

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 17 Oct 2011 | Submissions

    Should local government be recognised in the Constitution? And would such recognition make a practical difference? International... Read More...

  3. Working Towards Self-Reliance: Three Lessons for Disability Pension Reform

    Jessica Brown | 05 Oct 2011 | Policy Monographs

    To successful reduce the number of pensioners on disability support, policymakers must apply the lessons of other welfare... Read More...

  4. The Kingdom of God is Forcefully Advancing and Forceful Men Lay Hold of It

    David Coltart | 14 Sep 2011 | Occasional Papers

    In the CIS’s annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom, Senator David Coltart discusses the application of biblical... Read More...

  5. When Prophecy Fails

    Peter Saunders | 09 Sep 2011 | Special Publications

      In their 2009 book, The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett argued for the ‘benefits’ of income redistribution.... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Italy defaults on debt and sends lenders broke? So be it

    Adam Creighton | 15 Nov 2011 | Crikey

    The federal government will need to cut spending to ensure a surplus in 2012-13.... Read More

  2. Focus on 'prevention' abusing kids

    Jeremy Sammut | 09 Nov 2011 | On Line Opinion

    Despite increasing government spending on programs meant to prevent child abuse and entries into care, record numbers of ... Read More

  3. Budget surplus fetish means more harsh spending cuts

    Adam Creighton | 09 Nov 2011 | Crikey

    The federal government will need to cut spending to ensure a surplus in 2012-13.... Read More

  4. Myths, lies and adoption

    Jeremy Sammut | 08 Nov 2011 | The Geelong Advertiser

    IN 2009-10, 36,000 children were in out-of-home care in Australia and more than two-thirds had been there for at least two ... Read More

  5. Sydney misses the boat on ferry reform

    Alexander Philipatos | 26 Oct 2011 | Australian Financial Review

    Sydney’s ferry system should go private to lowers costs for tax payers.... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. Hardly fair to vulnerable children

    Jeremy Sammut | 03 Feb 2012

    Restore citizen-control over the child protection services or watch it fail....

  2. Time to drop the Dick

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 03 Feb 2012

    Time for Dick Smith to go – he may have been a brilliant entrepreneur, but his past achievements sadly do not give his ...

  3. How (not) to pick a nanny-state winner

    Jessica Brown | 20 Jan 2012

    Government can’t control everything. People who want to gamble online will gamble online....

  4. Nudge, nudge, here come the Germans

    Peter Saunders | 20 Jan 2012

    Germans can teach us a lot when it comes to family and social policy....

  5. A Kiwi approach on emissions

    Luke Malpass | 16 Dec 2011

    Australia needs to learn from New Zealand’s subtle reversal on emissions trading....

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