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‘Super-Style’ Health Funding Will Save Unsustainable Medicare
More private financing of healthcare is needed to control the runaway cost of Medicare in an ageing Australia. Read More
Fears of Asian Century Skills Shortages Unfounded
Policy proposals worth billions of dollars to equip Australia for the Asian Century would be a waste of taxpayers’ dollars. Read More
‘Monster’ Disability Scheme to blowout by billions
The annual cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is set to blowout by at least $7 billion. Read More
Privatise Health in NSW or Perish
With health spending set to consume the entire state budget by 2033, the NSW Government should privatise public hospital services to avoid a financial catastrophe. Read More
More Indigenous students failing NAPLAN in all states except WA & QLD
NAPLAN results show plummeting standards of Indigenous education across the country, according to a new report titled Indigenous Education 2012 from The Centre for Independent Studies. Read More
Fresh Thinking Needed for Fresher Food
Outback Stores in remote Indigenous communities have done nothing to improve healthy eating in these areas, argues a new report released by The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) this week. Read More
Henry Review Must Target Disability Pension, Says CIS Report
The Henry Review should seize the opportunity to move Disability Support Pension (DSP) reform out of the ‘too hard’ basket, says a report released by The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) this week. Read More
No Excuses Schooling Needed to End High Indigenous Failure Rates
The bottom 150 schools in Australia are nearly all Indigenous schools when ranked using the 2009 NAPLAN results, highlights a new report released by The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) this week. Read More
Like the Curates Egg
Bennett Report misdiagnoses our nation’s future health needs Read More
On the Right Track: Why NSW Needs Business Class Rail
NSW TRAINS NEED AN UPGRADE TO BUSINESS CLASS: Rail connections between Sydney and neighbouring cities need to improve substantially and business class carriages would be a good first step, says a report... Read More
What's Next for Welfare to work? IA117
Mixed results leave room for more welfare reform “There are more than 100,000 fewer recipients of Parenting Payment Single and Parenting Payment Partnered now than there were in 2006,” says a new... Read More
Bureaucrat-Run Hospitals a Health Hazard for Australians
It’s time for public hospitals to once again become the trusted and well-run institutions they used to be, says a new report being released Thursday. In The Past is the Future for Public Hospitals:... Read More
Time to end the churn
The ‘churn’ of middle-class welfare is costing Australia around $130 billion every year, and could be significantly reduced without cutting welfare to those who need it most, says a new report being... Read More
RECESSION PUTS FAMILIES ON THE EDGE
Australia’s declining economic fortunes threaten to reverse the growth in Australia’s birth rate and destabilise families, says a new report released on Wednesday by The Centre for Independent Studies. Read More
Schools of Thought: A Collection of Articles on Education
Over the last decade, schools policy in Australia has undergone significant changes. As a policy researcher at The Centre for Independent Studies and former schools editor at The Australian newspaper,... Read More
The Child Protection System in Australia is Fatally Flawed
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... Read More
CDEP: Help or Hindrance?
CDEP POLICY KEEPS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OUT OF JOBS AND WITHOUT SERVICES: Established in the 1970s as a transition to work program, the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) has become an obstacle... Read More
Report In Defence of Non-Government Schools
In Defence of Non-Government Schools: Non-government schools are providers of public education and deserve adequate public funding, says a new report to be released on Thursday. Read More
ECONOMIC DOWNTURN IS NOT THE TIME TO REVERSE TOUGH WELFARE RULES
The current economic downturn is a dangerous time to unwind tough welfare rules and labour market flexibility, which could intensify rising unemployment, says a new report being released on Wednesday. Read More
Job Compacts Comments
JOBS COMPACT IS A STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT LABOUR MARKET REFORM IS ALSO NEEDED Read More
NSW PUBLIC HOSPITALS REQUIRE RADICAL REFORM
The systemic failures of public hospitals in NSW are caused by their excessive bureaucratisation. NSW hospitals require drastic reform, says a new report released on Thursday by the Centre for Independent... Read More
The False Promise of GP Super Clinics, Part 1: Preventive Care
GP Super Clinics will not lower health costs or take the pressure off hospitals, as the government has promised.In the second of a pair of papers looking at the sustainability of Medicare in an ageing... Read More
The False Promise of GP Super Clinics, Part 1: Preventive Care
GP Super Clinics will not lower health costs or take the pressure off hospitals, as the government has promised.In the second of a pair of papers looking at the sustainability of Medicare in an ageing... Read More
Declaring Dependence, Declaring Independence: Three Essays on the Future of the Welfare State
Declaring dependence on, and independence from, the modern welfare state: In a time when governments are running up enormous welfare bills and intrusively regulating everyday life, a series of essays being... Read More
A Whiff of Compassion: The Attack on Mutual Obligation
RUDD GOVERNMENT MAKING IT MORE ATTRACTIVE TO CLAIM WELFARE: The Rudd government is planning to water down the existing work requirements and mutual obligation policies that have helped unemployed people... Read More
Indigenous Education in the Northern Territory
Failure of Indigenous Education in the Northern Territory: The Northern Territory government has known for the past ten years that education for most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is... Read More
The Coming Crisis of Medicare
The Coming Crisis of Medicare: Medicare is becoming an anachronism. The ‘free and universal’ taxpayer-funded health systems of the twentieth century were created in an age when medicine was rudimentary... Read More
The Folly of Criminalising Cartels
CRIMINALISING CARTELS IS UNPRODUCTIVE The government should reconsider the introduction of criminal penalties for cartelisation, says a new report being released on Wednesday. Read More
Indigenous Participation in University Education
SELLING SHORT INDIGENOUS HIGHER EDUCATION PARTICIPATION The government’s use of race-based ‘average’ educational performance measures denigrates Indigenous achievement, ignoring the achievements... Read More
