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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. Time to Dump Australia’s Anti-Dumping System

    Stephen Kirchner | 05 Jun 2013 | Issue Analysis

    This report argues that Australia should scrap its anti-dumping and countervailing system. The report examines the meaning... Read More...

  3. Relics of a Byzantine IR System: Why Awards Should Be Abolished

    Alexander Philipatos | 23 May 2013 | Issue Analysis

    Awards are uniquely Australian, and practically as old as the country itself. But in Australia’s modern, competitive economy,... Read More...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Should teenaged shop workers receive a pay rise?

    Alexander Philipatos | 12 Jul 2013 | The Drum

    A wages claim to pay young retail workers equally to adults may sound like a good idea, but it will be a hard sell.... Read More

  2. 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

  3. Union campaign emotive but misleading

    Alexander Philipatos | 21 Jun 2013 | ON LINE Opinion

    It is misleading to assert that Australian workers are being overworked in insecure jobs.... Read More

  4. Taxpayer money wasted chasing film productions

    Gene Tunny | 20 Jun 2013 | The Drum

    Should the Australian public be supporting Hollywood productions with only dubious benefit to Australia?... Read More

  5. Dumping on free trade

    Stephen Kirchner | 13 Jun 2013 | ON LINE Opinion

    Australia’s anti-dumping system will continue to serve the interests of a small number of Australian producers at the expense ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. Why we should support car workers (find new jobs)

    Simon Cowan | 12 Jul 2013

    Government should support workers transition to competitive industries and abolish corporate welfare....

  2. Fixed terms revisited

    Robert Carling | 05 Jul 2013

    The current bout of speculation about the election date reminds us that there is a way to put a stop to this silly game once ...

  3. Freedom and smaller government

    Simon Cowan | 28 Jun 2013

    The issues that we as a society face have only arisen because government has moved away from its core roles....

  4. Ignoring the writing on the wall

    Alexander Philipatos | 28 Jun 2013

    The ACTU is oblivious to the fact that wage cuts in the automotive industry are a necessary part of the drive to become competitive....

  5. Corporate welfare still milking government cash cows

    Simon Cowan | 14 Jun 2013

    Industry assistance doesn’t achieve the goals it’s supposed to, and should be reduced....

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