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When Prophecy Fails
In their 2009 book, The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett argued for the ‘benefits’ of income redistribution. Although enthusiastically welcomed by the left, CIS Senior Fellow Peter...... Read More
No Quick Fix: Three Essays on the Future of the Australian Hospital System
The trilogy of essays in this collection describes the negative effects of the bureaucratisation of the public hospital system on staff and patients in the last 30 years. Unless accountable pro bono boards...... Read More
Schools of Thought: A Collection of Articles on Education
Over the last decade, schools policy in Australia has undergone significant changes. Jennifer Buckingham has been a significant contributor to the public debate surrounding these changes, drawing on...... Read More
Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ‘Homelands’ in Transition
Some 90,000 of Australia’s 500,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders live appallingly deprived lives in ‘homelands’ throughout remote Australia. Although these ‘homelands’ were created...... Read More
In Defence of Global Capitalism
Norberg refutes, systematically and thoroughly, the tenets of the anti-globalisation movement. Johan Norberg illustrates how free market policies, contrary to popular assumption, have brought about better...... Read More
Australia's Welfare Habit and How to Kick It
Forty years ago only 3% of working age Australians depended on welfare payments as their main source of income. Today it is 16%. There used to be 22 workers to support each person on welfare. Now there...... Read More
State of the Nation: An Agenda for Change 2004
This book is now in its fourth edition. It offers independent views on Australia’s progress across a range of indicators which show that government has become increasingly interventionist, with some...... Read More
State of the Nation New Zealand 2003
The report, State of the Nation New Zealand, traces and analyses the profound social and economic changes occurring over the past century, to paint a definitive picture of life on the island today, and...... Read More
State of the Nation 2001: A Century of Change
This major report finds that Australia is in the midst of profound social and economic change sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.... Read More
State of the Nation 2001: A Century of Change (CD ROM)
A CD version of a major report that finds Australia is in the midst of profound social and economic change sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse... Read More
Building Prosperity: Australia's Future as a Global Player
Over the past two decades Australia has been transformed from a protected backwater on the global periphery to an outward-looking player. Building Prosperity: Australia’s Future as a Global Player,...... Read More
State of the Nation: Indicators of a Changing Australia 1999
The expanded and revised edition of State of the Nation: Indicators of a Changing Australia 1999 is a comprehensive guide to the trends and changes in Australian life over the past century. It includes...... Read More
State of the Nation: Statistical Indicators of Australia's Well-being
The first of a series of studies of the social condition of Australia in 1997.... Read More
Bougainville: The Mine and the People
In Paul Quodling's judgement, the two issues of the political conflict on Bougainville and the future of the Panguna mine are closely related: Political stability is an essential prerequisite for the resumption...... Read More
Aid and Development in the South Pacific
The political economy of the South Pacific is dominated by foreign aid. This promotes domestic statism, which in turn retards the economic growth and development of the many countreis in the region. ...... Read More
Fiji: Opportunity from Adversity?
The situation in Fiji has deteriorated to the point where new constitutional ground rules seem the only way to overcome irreconcilable positions. This book is written by Richard Blandy, Jeff Bennett,...... Read More
Rationalising Rustic Regulation
A landmark discussion of agricultural policy in Australia. Written in 1982, Ted Sieper asks 'who gains' with respect to any regulatory instrument and answers the question by means of economic analysis.... Read More