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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. 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...

  3. In the Pay of the Piper: Governments, Not-for-Profits, and the Burden of Regulation

    Peter Kurti | 23 Apr 2013 | Issue Analysis

    Reforms intended to boost confidence in Australian charities risk turning the charitable sector into just another arm of... Read More...

  4. After the Welfare State: Politicians Stole Your Future … You Can Get It Back

    Tom Palmer | 08 Apr 2013 | Occasional Papers

    History, economics, sociology, political science, and mathematics are the tools to understand and evaluate welfare states,... Read More...

  5. 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...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Youth disgust weakens democracy

    Steven Schwartz | 08 Jul 2013 | The Australian Financial Review

    Political parties have become self-serving cliques whose methods, motives and messages have not changed since their grandfathers ... Read More

  2. Moral mission of small government

    Greg Lindsay | 27 Jun 2013 | The Australian Financial Review

    Regardless of which party wins the election in September, the new government will have much more important issues to deal ... Read More

  3. Big Brother deters charity

    Peter Kurti | 26 Apr 2013 | The Australian

    Reforms intended to boost confidence in Australian charities risk turning the charitable sector into just another arm of ... Read More

  4. Outcry ignores role of travellers

    Tim Pascoe | 20 Feb 2013 | The Canberra Times

    What are the responsibilities of the Australian government to help citizens who get into trouble overseas?... Read More

  5. Hummus, Hamas and the hopeless naive

    Jeremy Sammut | 18 Oct 2012 | Quadrant Online

    In the wake of the violent Islamist riots, concerns that western governments will seek a political accommodation and try ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. On the trappings of power

    Peter Saunders | 12 Jul 2013

    A seat in the Royal Box at Wimbledon is one of those perks top politicians come to expect, even those who say they hate privilege....

  2. Absurd reaction to first Muslim frontbencher

    Peter Kurti | 05 Jul 2013

    The anti-Islamic rants against Ed Husic this week were both absurd and inconsistent....

  3. Authoritarian China’s successes vindicate liberalism

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 05 Jul 2013

    Liberal reforms are still needed in China to unlock the entrepreneurial talents and ambition of the world’s largest nation....

  4. 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....

  5. Help us continue our mission

    Greg Lindsay | 21 Jun 2013

    Why should our daily lives be subject to the whims and fancies of those in power?...

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