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Our Prosperity is Slipping Away: Submission to Economic Reform Roundtable

August 18, 2025AP87

Introduction As Reserve Bank deputy governor Andrew Hauser noted last year, it can be...

Addressing Australia’s Productivity Problem. CORE Blueprint to Unshackle Productivity

Jim CoxAugust 14, 2025AP86

Introduction There is no one action that will lift Australia’s dwindling productivity growth; it is...

Events, Dear Boy. Any Government Can Be Derailed

Tom SwitzerAugust 11, 2025OP207

Foreword After an election result as sobering as May 3, 2025, there is a temptation...

The Productivity Problem. Australia’s Growth Slump Is Undermining Prosperity

Jim CoxAugust 7, 2025AP85

Executive summary Concern over Australia’s slow rate of productivity growth is justified as it is...

Leviathan on the Rampage: Government spending growth a threat to Australia’s economic future

Robert CarlingJuly 23, 2025AP84

Executive summary The rising trend of government expenditure in Australia has long been present but...

Sex and maths success: myths and interventions

David C. GearyJuly 17, 2025AP83

Executive summary Mathematical competencies at the completion of secondary school influence later educational and occupational...

Business will cop super fall-out

November 24, 2011Geelong Advertiser

THE Federal Government has introduced legislation to lift the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent...

Land of the long white cloud faces bad weather

November 24, 2011The Age

SINCE 2008, New Zealand has been led by former investment banker John Key's National Party....

Kiwis facing a critical choice

Luke MalpassNovember 24, 2011Australian Financial Review

New Zealand’s political economy must be compared with Australia’s to be properly understood. In Australia...

Europe’s hidden doomsday machine

Oliver Marc HartwichNovember 22, 2011Business Spectator

How many crises are there in Europe? First, there is a sovereign debt crisis, which...

Whether public or private, our schools deserve a fair go

Jennifer Buckingham OAMNovember 22, 2011The Punch

School choice means different things to different people. In essence, it refers to the principle...

Avoiding conflict but quietly waving flag

November 21, 2011Newcastle Herald

Much has been made of Indonesia’s cool response to America’s increasing military engagement in northern...

Q&A Australia’s Urban Water Challenge Rebecca Gill

May 17, 2011

Q&A Australia’s Urban Water Challenge Rebecca Gill

May 17, 2011

The CIS at 35

May 11, 2011

Rebecca Gill – Australia’s Urban Water Challenge: A Drought of Ideas

May 2, 2011

Rebecca Gill – Australia’s Urban Water Challenge: A Drought of Ideas

May 2, 2011

Jeremy Sammut – Q&A

April 22, 2011