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Report Card on State Finances

Robert CarlingFebruary 19, 2017RR23

The Commonwealth government’s perilous financial position is well known, but the finances of state government...

Politically-Feasible Health Reform: Whatever Will It Take?

Jeremy Sammut, Peta Seaton, Gerald Thomas, Terry BarnesDecember 7, 2016OP153

Despite the ever-escalating cost of health posing severe fiscal sustainability challenges, health reform has been...

Rediscovering Humility: Religious Freedom in a 21st Century Pluralist Society

Tim WilsonDecember 5, 2016OP151

Religious liberty is central to the Australian way of life. It is enshrined in the...

Ending the Violence in Indigenous Communities

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Marcia Langton, Josephine CashmanDecember 5, 2016OP152

Urgent action is need to address the epidemic of violence in Indigenous communities. Aboriginal women...

Contemporary “Duck & Cover”? Terror Challenges in the 21st Century

David KilcullenDecember 1, 2016OP150

Counter-insurgency expert, scholar and author Dr David Kilcullen is Chief Operating Officer of Meta Aerospace...

MEDI-VATION: ‘Health Innovation Communities’ for Medicare Payment and Service Reform

Jeremy Sammut, Gerald Thomas, Peta SeatonNovember 2, 2016RR21

Health Innovation Communities (HICs) would essentially constitute an Australian ‘Silicon Valley’ for health – hubs...

Working for welfare

Peter SaundersJune 12, 2008ABC News Online

Mutual obligation requires people receiving welfare benefits to undertake a prescribed activity or forfeit some...

Protectionist Ploy A Blast From The Past

June 11, 2008The Australian

Private providers of higher education have been assisted by the extension of the FEE-HELP loan...

China’s complicit universities

John LeeJune 9, 2008Campus Review

It is true that intellectuals tend to give more weight to their role in society...

Reassessing China’s future beyond the Beijing Olympics

John LeeJune 1, 2008AIIA Policy Commentary

China has averaged double digit growth each year for over three decades and its economy...

Democracy for the few

John LeeMay 31, 2008The Business Spectator

China’s transformation from the backward, autocratic economy of just three decades ago is probably the...

Why China’s loyal youth no longer want democracy

John LeeMay 31, 2008The Weekend Australian

In the last two decades, China’s economy has tripled in size. The numbers of young,...

Dr David Kilcullen Interview

December 15, 2014

Christopher Snowdon Interview

December 15, 2014

Christopher Snowdon Interview

December 15, 2014

Fatal Shore or Land of Opportunity?

December 11, 2014

The Enlightenment Made Us

December 11, 2014

Patrick Chovanec – interview with Ben Herscovitch at Consilium 2014

December 11, 2014