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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. A Fair Go: Fact or Fiction?

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 09 May 2013 | Policy Monographs

    The Australian ideal of a fair go is fact rather than fiction. By offering all individuals the opportunity to capitalise... Read More...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. The Fraught Politics of Saying Sorry for Forced Adoption: Implications for Child Protection Policy in Australia

    Jeremy Sammut | 19 Mar 2013 | Issue Analysis

    Many Australians will believe a national apology for forced adoption is overdue. But there is a danger that the apology will... Read More...

  5. TARGET30: Towards smaller government and future prosperity

    Peter Saunders, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan | 06 Mar 2013 | TARGET30 Research Papers

    TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government, supported by a series of research reports providing policy solutions... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Our fear of adoptions is hurting vulnerable children

    Jeremy Sammut | 15 Jul 2013 | The Drum

    Rather than further pursuing often futile parental rehabilitation programs, we need to get children out of harm's way through ... Read More

  2. The fair go is fact, not political platitude

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 16 May 2013 | ON LINE Opinion

    Australia's social escalator moves so quickly that the poorest Australians can find fortune in just a few years. With the ... Read More

  3. The politics of apologies: Easy moralism for past sins, but ignorance about the present

    Jeremy Sammut | 26 Mar 2013 | ABC Religion & Ethics

    Official apologies tend to descend into simplistic condemnations of people and times past rather than criticising current ... Read More

  4. Why adoption should, in some cases, continue

    Jeremy Sammut | 22 Mar 2013 | Crikey

    The "never again" approach to separating parents from children because of previous forced adoption practices has implicatons ... Read More

  5. Apologise but allow adoption

    Jeremy Sammut | 19 Mar 2013 | The Australian

    The federal parliament cannot ignore the politics behind the national apology and implications for child protection policy, ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. From parenting payment to prostitution?

    Andrew Baker | 12 Jul 2013

    Claims that people on welfare are being ‘forced’ into prostitution because of cuts to welfare should be treated with ...

  2. A tale of two houses

    Helen Hughes AO 1928 - 2013, Mark Hughes | 24 May 2013

    For years, excuses have been used to hide the discriminatory state and federal policies that deny individual property rights ...

  3. Fair go fear-mongering flies in the face of facts

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 10 May 2013

    Swan’s fair go fear-mongering is unfounded. Australians from even the poorest and least educated families are entering ...

  4. Easy moralism on forced adoption ‘sorry’

    Jeremy Sammut | 22 Mar 2013

    The apology on forced adoption condemned the sins of the past, while ignoring the current day sins of ‘enlightened’ social ...

  5. Fairness in the welfare state

    Peter Saunders | 15 Mar 2013

    The welfare state must stop rewarding irresponsible behaviour and distinguish between deserving and undeserving cases....

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