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Ideas@TheCentre

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3 short articles from CIS researchers emailed every Friday on the issues of the week.

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Publications

  1. TARGET30: Reducing the burden for future generations

    David Murray AO, Maurice Newman, Simon Cowan | 01 Jul 2013 | Policy Forum

    TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government and cutting government spending to less than 30% of GDP in the next 10... Read More...

  2. Australia’s Future Fiscal Shock

    Robert Carling | 28 Sep 2012 | Issue Analysis

    Government is facing the arduous task of securing sustainable expenditure, revenue and debt beyond the current four-year... Read More...

  3. Regulation or Strangulation? Banking After the Global Financial Crisis

    Ian Harper, Robert Carling | 12 Jun 2012 | Policy Forum

    Inadequate regulation of finance has taken much of the blame for the global financial crisis, leading governments around... Read More...

  4. The Condensed Wealth of Nations and The Incredibly Condensed Theory of Moral Sentiments

    Eamonn Butler | 12 Jun 2012 | Occasional Papers

    In The Condensed Wealth of Nations, Eamonn Butler condenses Adam Smith’s work and explains the key concepts in The Wealth... Read More...

  5. Flight of the Kiwi: Addressing the Brain Drain

    Andrew Patterson, David Kirk, Don Turkington, Luke Malpass | 27 Mar 2012 | Policy Forum

    Why are so many New Zealanders flocking to Australian shores, and what can be done to stop the so-called Kiwi ‘brain drain’? In... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Why tax-free imports are a retail red herring

    Stephen Kirchner | 24 Jun 2013 | Business Spectator

    Retailers would be better served lobbying government for policies other than raising inefficient taxes on low value imports.... Read More

  2. Increasing the super contribution rate is a second-rate solution

    Stephen Kirchner | 08 Jan 2013 | The Conversation

    It is timely to re-examine the economic case for compulsory superannuation.... Read More

  3. Better ideas than raising super guarantee

    Stephen Kirchner | 28 Nov 2012 | Australian Financial Review

    Is compulsory super improving retirement incomes and reducing future demands on the budget from an ageing population?... Read More

  4. Fairness is not equality

    Steven Schwartz | 26 Nov 2012 | Australian Financial Review

    Income equality is not achievable, it is not desirable and it is not fair.... Read More

  5. Self-sustaining leviathan

    Robert Carling | 23 Oct 2012 | ON LINE Opinion

    How does Australia compare in the welfare dependency stakes?... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. The elusive budget surplus

    Robert Carling | 17 May 2013

    The idea that we will have a balanced budget by 2015-16 should be met with healthy scepticism....

  2. Fiscal fixes

    Robert Carling | 03 May 2013

    Australia has a size-of-government problem rather than a revenue shortfall....

  3. The end of austerity?

    Simon Cowan | 19 Apr 2013

    Saddling future generations with lower growth and higher taxes while they repay debts incurred to fund our short-term consumption ...

  4. Tax freedom at last

    Alexander Philipatos | 05 Apr 2013

    This Sunday marks Tax Freedom Day; the day in the year when Australians stop working for the government....

  5. Fiscal sausages

    Robert Carling | 11 Jan 2013

    What emerged from Congress on the first day of 2013 is as unpalatable as the worst-made sausage....

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