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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
REJOICE! TAX FREEDOM DAY IS FRIDAY, 9 APRIL
Australians will spend the first 98 days of this year working for the government. ‘April 9 marks the first day Australians will start working for themselves, or Tax Freedom Day,’ according to Centre...... Read More
Kick-Starting Kiwi democracy: Why New Zealand Should Abandon MMP
New Zealanders need to seize the opportunity of the upcoming referendum on electoral reform and reinvent their system of government says a new report from The Centre for Independent Studies.... Read More
Indigenous Australians Denied Employment by Inept Polices
Indigenous unemployment is stuck at 15% while unemployment in the rest of Australia is back to 5.3%. Yet in their paper Indigenous Employment, Unemployment and Labour Force Participation: Facts for Evidence...... Read More
Taxing Times Must Not Hold Back Income Tax Reform
Tax reform will be hollow without significant personal income tax reform, argues a new report being released on Wednesday.... Read More
Research Shows More to a Federal Charter of Rights Than Meets the Eye
Australian evidence shows that a national charter of rights would hinder democracy, argues a new report being released Thursday. In Behind the Moral Curtain: The Politics of a Charter of Rights, CIS policy...... Read More
Indigenous Health Short-Changed by a Lack of Accountability
Over the past 10 years, funding for Indigenous health programs has increased by 245% with no appreciable improvements in health outcomes, shows a new report being released this Wednesday.... Read More
Like the Curates Egg
Bennett Report misdiagnoses our nation’s future health needs... Read More
No Gain in High Capital Tax Burden
The review of the tax system currently being undertaken by Treasury Secretary Ken Henry (The Henry review) should work towards alleviating the high tax burden on capital through extending the current concessional...... Read More
The Importance of India: restoring sight to Australia’s strategic blind spot
Australia’s eyes wide shut to India: Australia must recognise the growing confidence, power and influence of India if we are to remain a relevant middle power within our own region, argues a report being...... 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
IA 118: Shock and Awe
American debt brewing another economic storm: America’s massive fiscal deficit has the potential to spur a second crisis, says a new report being released Wednesday.... 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
A Streak of Hypocrisy
THIS YEAR’S CHRISTMAS LUNCH FOR RETIREES WILL BE AT THE EXPENSE OF YOUNG TAXPAYERS: Net household saving in Australia have plunged from 12% of GDP in the 1960s to around 5% today.Borrowing to purchase...... 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
Educating the Disadvantaged
Social disadvantage does not spell educational disadvantageEvery child can succeed at school if education providers take the right approach, says a new report being released Thursday.... 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
KiwiRail Doomed to Fail?
IS KIWIRAIL DOOMED TO FAIL? Government ownership cannot and will not ‘fix’ rail in New Zealand, says a new report being released on Thursday.... Read More
Why America will lead the ‘Asian Century’
WHY AMERICA WILL LEAD THE ‘ASIAN CENTURY’ The beginning of the end of America’s strategic primacy in Asia is commonly predicted. We are supposed to be entering a China-led Asian Century but, a...... Read More
