Ideas@The Centre 20 2012
Vol. 5 No. 20 (May, 2012) Freedom Quote of the Week'One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.'
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Address the demand for alcohol, not the supply
| 25 May 2012
For long-term changes, governments should be tackling the reasons why people are drinking rather than simply controlling the consumption of alcohol.
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DSP reform under Labor hits the brakes
| 25 May 2012
The Rudd-Gillard Labor government is famous for its policy failures, but one of the few bright spots on its report card has been its reforms to the Disability Support Pension.
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Scrap the National Children’s Commissioner for children’s sake
| 25 May 2012
Appointing a National Children’s Commissioner will only add to the bureaucratic maze and do no good to children.
