Policy Forum
Policy Forums (PF) collates and expands on lectures given at CIS Forum or workshop.
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TARGET30: Reducing the burden for future generations
TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government and cutting government spending to less than 30% of GDP in the next 10 years. This collection of speeches presented at the campaign’s launch focuses...... Read More
What’s New with Anti-Semitism?
Criticism of Israeli government domestic policy has intensified in Australia with the emergence of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign here. In a CIS Round Table discussion...... Read More
Regulation or Strangulation? Banking After the Global Financial Crisis
Inadequate regulation of finance has taken much of the blame for the global financial crisis, leading governments around the world to design a new, tighter regime of regulation centred on the Basel III...... Read More
Flight of the Kiwi: Addressing the Brain Drain
Why are so many New Zealanders flocking to Australian shores, and what can be done to stop the so-called Kiwi ‘brain drain’? In Flight of the Kiwi,four New Zealanders discuss the policy reforms that...... Read More
Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies: The Sequel
What started as the US subprime crisis became the global financial crisis and has now developed into the Trans-Atlantic sovereign debt crisis.... Read More
Tax Reform – For Economic Growth or Bigger Government?
The long-awaited report on Australia's Future Tax System (the 'Henry review') was released by the government in May 2010. Shortly afterwards, The Centre for Independent Studies held a policy forum to discuss...... Read More
Shooting the Messenger: The Ban on Short Selling
In September 2008, governments around the world instituted bans on the short sale of equity securities. In Australia, the ban went further and lasted longer than in other comparable countries. These...... Read More
Fiscal Fallacies : The Failure of Activist Fiscal Policy
Editor, Stephen Kirchner ; Contributors, John B Taylor ; Tony Makin ; Robert Carling The global financial crisis that emerged in 2007 has turned into a major, worldwide economic downturn more serious...... Read More
Supersize New Zealand : A Collection of Essays on How to Improve New Zealand's Public Policy
This collection of essays from the Centre for Independent Studies show that increased regulation and expenditure have put a handbrake on economic growth and prosperity in this country. The global financial...... Read More
Supping with the Devil : Government Contracts and the Non-Profit Sector
Big-government corporatism is now in danger of smothering the third sector altogether. The temptation for non-profit organisations to go after government contracts is huge, for the financial rewards can...... Read More
Where to for Australian Federalism?
Edited by Robert Carling with contributions from Cheryl Saunders, Jonathan Pincus, Wolfgang Kasper, Cliff Walsh and Ken Baxter. These papers all give general support to Australia's current Structure...... Read More
Social Capital: The Individual, Civil Society and the State
The concept of 'social capital' meaning roughly the network of conventions supporting trust and social co-oreration, has recently attracted interest from all points on the political spectrum. The essays...... Read More
Should We Worry About the Foreign Debt?
The debate about Australis's foreign debt seems endless. Some say it is nothing to worry about and other fear a foreign exchange crisis. The Policy Forum brings together four authorities on the subject...... Read More
Australia's Asian Challenge
The proceedings of the Autumn Public Policy Forum in the 1994 Bert Kelly lecture series Sydney, 24 February 1994. Three experts on Australian involvement in Asia assess our performance in meeting the Asian...... Read More
Restoring The True Republic
In this Policy Forum, two lawyers and an economist document the drift in Australia's constitutional practices away from republicanism and towards centralism, and propose ways of strengthening the accountability...... Read More
Do We Need a Reserve Bank?
'Free Banking' is gaining increasing attention as a promising remedy for inflation. Could private agencies be involved in the present functions of a reserve bank?... Read More
Regulating for Competition? Trade Practices Policy in a Changing Economy
Arguments for a greater reliance on market forces to protect consumer welfare are explored in this collection by leading Australia, New Zealand and international authorities on the theory and practice...... Read More
The Welfare State: Foundations and Alternatives
The central question for public policy in the 1990s is whether the state should retain its near-monopoly of welfare provision or whether it should allow a greater role for private and voluntary methods...... Read More
Restraining Leviathan: Small Government in Practice
This collection seeks to increase our understanding of the scope and opportunities we have for making substantial and permenent reductions in the size of Australia's public sector.... Read More