Publication Update

	Policy Monograph 106 Behind the Moral Curtain: The Politics of a Charter of Rights Elise Parham [read more]

	Policy Monograph 105 Closing the Accountability Gap: The First Step Towards Better Indigenous Health Sara Hudson [read more]

	Policy Monograph 104 Like the Curate’s Egg: A Market-based Response and Alternative to the Bennett Report Jeremy Sammut [read more]

	Policy Monograph 103 Reforming Capital Gains Tax: The Myths and Reality behind Australia’s Most Misunderstood Tax Stephen Kirchner [read more]

	Issue Analysis 118 Fiscal Shock and Awe in the United States Robert Carling [read more]

	Policy Monograph 102 The Past is the Future for Public Hospitals: An Insider’s Perspective on Hospital Administration Dr John Graham [read more]

	Policy Monograph 101 Family on the Edge: Stability and Fertility in Prosperity and Recession Barry Maley [read more]

	Policy Monograph 100 Ending the Churn: A Tax/Welfare Swap John Humphreys [read more]

	Issue Analysis 117 What’s next for Welfare-to-Work? Jessica Brown [read more]

	Issue Analysis 116 Educating the Disadvantaged Jennifer Buckingham, John Fleming, Jean Illingworth, Professor Chris Goddard [read more]

	Issue Analysis 115 KiwiRail: Doomed to Fail? Luke Malpass [read more]

	Issue Analysis 114 Diminishing Democracy: The Threat Posed by Political Expenditure Laws Andrew Norton [read more]

	Policy Monograph 99 Why Public Hospitals Are Overcrowded: Ten Points for Policymakers Jeremy Sammut [read more]

	Policy Monograph 98 Fiscal Rules for Limited Government: Reforming Australia’s Fiscal Responsibility Legislation Robert Carling and Stephen Kirchner [read more]

	Issue Analysis 113 Emissions Tax: The Least Worst Option John Humphreys and Luke Malpass [read more]

	Issue Analysis 112 In Defence of Non-Government Schools Jennifer Buckingham [read more]

	Issue Analysis 111 The Folly of Criminalising Cartels Jason Soon The government should reconsider the introduction of a ten year jail sentence, on top of already significant financial penalties for cartels, as they are not as economically damaging as is being claimed. [read more]

	Issue Analysis 110 Indigenous Participation in University Education Joe Lane 24,000 Indigenous university graduates in Australia are an Indigenous success story. Using race-based ‘average’ educational performance measures denigrates their achievement says Joe Lane. [read more]

	Policy Monograph 97 Fatally Flawed: The Child Protection Crisis in Australia Jeremy Sammut with Toby O'Brien It is not underfunding or an overwhelming workload that has caused child protection services to fail the vulnerable children they exist to protect, it is the failure to investigate reports and remove children in danger, says a new report being released by Jeremy Sammut. [read more]

	Policy Monograph 95 Breaking the Cycle of Family Joblessness Jessica Brown Tax cuts, mutual obligation and Labour force flexibility in the Budget could make or break jobless families says Jessica Brown. [read more]

	Policy Monograph 94 Revisiting Indigenous Education Professor Helen Hughes and Mark Hughes Professor Helen Hughes and Mark Hughes argue that there is no ‘gap’ between the literacy and numeracy of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. The gap is between Indigenous students in mainstream schools and Indigenous students in non-performing remote schools. [read more]

	Issue Analysis 109 Ending No. 8 Wire Welfare: Why New Zealand is Lagging Behind Luke Malpass Luke Malpass argues that introducing more rigorous work-first policies is important in a recession so that if unemployment does rise substantially, people do not lose touch with the world of work. [read more]

	Policy Monograph 93 Bubble Poppers: Monetary Policy and the Myth of ‘Bubbles’ in Asset Prices Stephen Kirchner Monetary policy and central banks should not aim to actively manage asset price cycles. [read more]

	Issue Analysis 108 With No Particular Place to Go: The Federal Government's Ill-Conceived Support for the Australian Car Industry Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich With the car manufacturing industry faltering further, the Rudd government’s massive taxpayer-funded support for the Australian car industry is doomed to fail. [read more]

	Policy Monograph 92 From Rhetoric to Reality: Can 99-year Leases Lead to Homeownership for Indigenous Communities? Sara Hudson A lack of private property rights on communally owned indigenous land means homeownership is impossible [read more]

	Issue Analysis 107 In Defence of Civil Society: The Virtue of Prescribed Private Funds John Humphreys The Commonwealth government is looking to change the rules governing charitable funds which may harm philanthropic giving and consequently, undermine civil society says John Humphreys. [read more]

	Issue Analysis 106 Are We All Keynesians Again? Robert Carling Robert Carling warns that policymakers seem to have forgotten the lessons learned in the 1970s and 1980s about the limits to effective fiscal stimulus, in their rush to prop up sagging economies. [read more]

	Issue Analysis 105 Fixing Prices: Why vouchers won’t work while governments set fees Andrew Norton The Bradley review into higher education should have gone further to solve the financial problems of underfunded universities by deregulating student contribution amounts for higher education courses, says Andrew Norton. [read more]

	Policy Monograph 91 Radical Surgery: The only cure for NSW Hospitals Wolfgang Kasper The systemic failures of public hospitals in NSW are caused by their excessive bureaucratisation. Without drastic reform, NSW citizens are likely to lose their traditional free access to public hospitals. [read more]

	Issue Analysis 104 Beyond Symbolism: Finding a Place for Local Government in Australia’s Constitution Oliver Marc Hartwich Local governments could provide better services, like schools and fast development approvals if they received a higher proportion of tax revenue and a formal definition in the Constitution, says a new report by Oliver Hartwich. [read more]