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Our media releases, opinion pieces, commentary, videos and audio podcasts are available in this section. Our experts are able to comment on a range of policy areas amd issues. Please contact our Communications Director, Karla Pincott via phone 0407 716 752 or email kpincott@cis.org.au

Welfare reform beyond decades of dependence, ‘dole bludgers’ and ‘double dipping’
May 31, 2017OP156

Recent attempts to reform welfare have focused on the wrong elements of the system. In...

Fiscal Fiction: The Real Medicare Levy
May 7, 2017RR27

The Medicare Levy is, and always has been, a fiscal fiction. The revenue raised by...

The Fantasy of Gonski Funding: The ongoing battle over school spending
April 30, 2017RR26

The Gonski Report has not been implemented – there is no such thing as ‘Gonski...

Reforming Social Housing: financing and tenant autonomy
April 27, 2017RR25

Around 400,000 Australians live in social housing, which includes public and community housing. This sector...

Comments on ‘Better Budgeting Discussion Paper’
April 13, 2017CIS Submission

The following comments are offered in response to the call for submissions on the ‘Better...

Real Choice for Ageing Australians: Achieving the Benefits of the Consumer-Directed Aged Care Reforms in the New Economy
April 9, 2017RR24

The consumer-directed aged care (CDC) reforms are an important opportunity to showcase the benefits of...

Jim Chalmers
Holes appear as Treasurer tries to convince with verbal flourishes
May 4, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

The more detail we get on the government’s Future Made in Australia plans, the more...

Jerry Seinfeld
No offence, but the wokerati are killing free expression
May 3, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

In a wide-ranging interview with the New Yorker, legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld explains how the...

Raise taxes
Why Australian tax reform is doomed to fail
April 6, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

Ken Henry has issued another call this week for government to pick up the long-abandoned...

Stage 3 Tax cuts
Stage three tax cuts haven’t blunted the impact of bracket creep
March 24, 2024AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Two months after announcing their Stage 3 income tax cuts backflip, and a month after...

Religious schools
Religious freedom is not an absolute right
March 23, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

It seems we are to go through yet another debate on the issue of religious...

Naplan
The unions are at war with NAPLAN
Edmund StephenMarch 22, 2024SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE

Like clockwork, NAPLAN’s most vocal critics have again shown they miss the point of the...

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