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Budget: Concern over level of spending and lack of reform

Robert Carling, Peter Tulip, Tony Makin, Simon Cowan

07 October 2020 | MEDIA RELEASE

The Budget is too focused on the short-term, too heavy on spending and too light on permanent structural reform, the…
New CIS paper: lessons from NSW reforms to government-owned businesses

24 September 2019 | MEDIA RELEASE

Three decades of reform of NSW government enterprises offer valuable lessons at both federal and state levels for the future,…
New CIS research: To protect free speech and minorities focus on criminalising incitement

Monica Wilkie

18 September 2019 | MEDIA RELEASE

Those pushing for expanded ‘hate speech laws’ are threatening free speech in Australia by seeking to inappropriately lower the legal…
New CIS research: Parents prefer more flexible childcare options even if it means less taxpayer support

Fiona Mueller

10 September 2019 | MEDIA RELEASE

Half the parents receiving Australia’s $8 billion annual subsidy for formal childcare would prefer other forms of childcare, according to…
Tax Freedom Day 2019 is April 17: extra day of tax burden added since 2018

Eugenie Joseph

16 April 2019 | MEDIA RELEASE

This year, April 17 marks the auspicious date when Australians finish paying their taxes to governments and begin working for…