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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. Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It

    Jeremy Sammut | 30 Apr 2013 | TARGET30 Research Papers

    High growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government... Read More...

  3. TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It

    Jeremy Sammut | 30 Apr 2013 | TARGET30 Snapshots

    High growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government... Read More...

  4. Tax Welfare Churn and the Australian Welfare State

    Andrew Baker | 27 Mar 2013 | TARGET30 Research Papers

    The welfare state currently consumes $316 billion a year; however, much of this spending is not targeted at those who need... Read More...

  5. TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Tax Welfare Churn and the Australian Welfare State

    Andrew Baker | 27 Mar 2013 | TARGET30 Snapshots

    The welfare state currently consumes $316 billion a year; however, much of this spending is not targeted at those who need... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Only a super-style savings system now will help Medicare survive

    Jeremy Sammut | 30 Apr 2013 | The Australian

    THE intergenerational reports have told us repeatedly that escalating government spending on health is unsustainable in an ... Read More

  2. Independent thinking for financing future

    Jeremy Sammut | 16 Feb 2012 | Hospital and AgedCare Magazine

    Health already devours over 10 per cent of GDP each year and 70% of health funding is funnelled through federal and state ... Read More

  3. Focus on 'prevention' abusing kids

    Jeremy Sammut | 09 Nov 2011 | On Line Opinion

    Despite increasing government spending on programs meant to prevent child abuse and entries into care, record numbers of ... Read More

  4. Myths, lies and adoption

    Jeremy Sammut | 08 Nov 2011 | The Geelong Advertiser

    IN 2009-10, 36,000 children were in out-of-home care in Australia and more than two-thirds had been there for at least two ... Read More

  5. There's no such thing as a free healthcare system

    Adam Creighton | 27 Aug 2011 | Sydney Morning Herald

    But when it comes to health, Australians spurn pragmatism and tear up the laws of economics. We shackle ourselves with a ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. Prospects for NDIS blowout

    Andrew Baker | 10 May 2013

    The NDIS could experience average annual growth of around 8% per year, which would make the entire scheme financial unsustainable ...

  2. How to save the health system

    Jeremy Sammut | 03 May 2013

    Creating a health savings-based system would go a long way in solving the affordability problems facing Medicare....

  3. Bottom up and entrepreneurial, not top down bureaucratic health reform

    Jeremy Sammut | 05 Apr 2013

    Cost-effective ways to deliver health care are essential to addressing the financial burdens associated with an ageing population....

  4. Health savings a super idea

    Jeremy Sammut | 08 Mar 2013

    TARGET30 seems to promote better and more sustainable ways to deliver high-quality health services for all Australians....

  5. Privatising public health services - sleeping giant of IR debate

    Jeremy Sammut | 18 Jan 2013

    Microeconomic reform is essential in the public health sector to get more and better services for each health dollar spent....

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