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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. 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. 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...

  5. TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Towards smaller government and future prosperity

    Simon Cowan | 06 Mar 2013 | TARGET30 Snapshots

    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. My School sheds a welcome light

    Jennifer Buckingham | 17 May 2013 | The Australian

    If governments gather important information about schools and students, it should be available to everyone. The My School ... Read More

  2. Federal micro-managers to rule the schools

    Jennifer Buckingham | 16 Apr 2013 | Australian Financial Review

    Responses to the federal government’s school funding proposal have been less than enthusiastic. People have rightly pointed ... Read More

  3. Gonski reforms at risk of failure to launch

    Jennifer Buckingham | 05 Apr 2013 | The Australian

    Two camps have emerged in the Gonski wars, with one camp saying it's all about the money.... Read More

  4. Students should seize the day, not the decade

    Greg Melleuish | 14 Jan 2013 | The Australian

    No real thought is given to the consequences of keeping young people in education for an extended period of time.... Read More

  5. Degrees lose their cachet

    Steven Schwartz | 07 Jan 2013 | Australian Financial Review

    Higher education is not a useful ticket for employment.... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. Education is key for Aboriginal Australia

    Nigel Parbury | 24 May 2013

    This budget is further evidence that governments remain addicted to spending, and that is why it is time for TARGET30....

  2. 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 ...

  3. Time to make a deal

    Jennifer Buckingham | 19 Apr 2013

    In rejecting a pretty good funding school model because it is not perfect, we may end up with something much worse....

  4. Don’t blame corporate sector for low Indigenous employment

    Sara Hudson | 22 Mar 2013

    Look to education rather than blaming the corporate sector for low Indigenous employment....

  5. Victorian revival highlights lost ground on child welfare

    Jeremy Sammut | 15 Feb 2013

    Failure to regularly send children to school symbolises the breakdown of behavioural standards....

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