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With No Particular Place to Go: The Federal Government’s Ill-Conceived Support for the Australian Car Industry
HOLDEN SHOULD BE ON RUDD’S AGENDA IN WASHINGTON NEXT WEEK With the US car manufacturing industry faltering further, the Rudd government’s massive taxpayer-funded support for the Australian car industry...... Read More
MONETARY POLICY AND ‘BUBBLE’ MYTHS
The Reserve Bank should remember the lessons of the past and should not second-guess the market on asset price cycles, says a new report being released on Thursday.... Read More
GOVT HOMEOWNERSHIP SCHEMES STILL FAILING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
The great Australian dream of owning one’s own home has been denied to Indigenous Australians by excessive government bureaucracy, says a report being released on Thursday.... Read More
Defence of Civil Society: The Virtue of Prescribed Private Funds
GOVERNMENT’S PLANS WILL HARM PHILANTHROPIC GIVING ‘The Commonwealth government is looking to change the rules governing charitable funds which may harm philanthropic giving and consequently, undermine...... Read More
Prices: Why vouchers won’t work while governments set fees
The Bradley report is another chapter in the long story of pricing neglect in higher education, says a report being released today.In a new report, Fixing Prices: Why vouchers won’t work while governments...... 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
Local Governments Could Provide Schools and Fast Development Approvals if They Receive More Than Just ‘Recognition’ in the Constitution.
A new report by Dr Oliver Hartwich of the Centre for Independent Studies says that local governments are weak and their dependence on state government largesse and legislation is disempowering local communities.... Read More
Symbolism: Finding a Place for Local Government in Australia’s Constitution
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS NEED MORE THAN JUST RECOGNITION FROM THE PM: Local governments could provide better services, like schools and fast development approvals if they received a higher proportion of tax...... Read More
Beyond Symbolism: Finding a Place for Local Government in Australia’s Constitution
Local governments could provide schools and fast development approvals if they receive more than just ‘recognition’ in the Constitution.... Read More
Harmacy: The Political Economy of Community Pharmacy in Australia
PHARMACY INDUSTRY IS ANTICOMPETITIVE AND KEEPING PRICES UP: The community pharmacy industry is dressing up anticompetitive behaviour as a public health measure. In a new report, Harmacy: The Political...... Read More
CAPITAL XENOPHOBIA II
As politicians reaffirm their commitment to free trade at the G20 and APEC, they should make sure they practice what they preach. In Australia’s case, this means reforming restrictive rules on foreign...... 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
Putting democracy in China on hold
WHY DEMOCRACY IS GOING BACKWARDS IN CHINA: Since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, China has moved closer to a market economy, but further away from a democratic state. The impetus for democracy has...... 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
State Tax Reform: Progress and Prospects
State Tax Reform: Progress and Prospects: The Labor Government has set reform of federalism as one of its top priorities, arousing new interest in federal–state financial relations. At the same time,...... Read More
Five Out of Ten: A Performance Report on RAMSI
Five Out of Ten: A Performance Report on RAMSI: The Solomon Islands is stagnating despite thirty years of aid flows of hundreds of millions of dollars, innumerable consultants’ reports and development...... Read More
Fiscal Illusion: How Big Government Makes Tax Look Small
Fiscal illusion is the political art of crafting tax and expenditure policies to make taxpayers think that taxes are not as onerous as they appear. In a paper being released by the Centre for Independent...... Read More
