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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

Should Australia and New Zealand Open Their Doors to Guest Workers From the Pacific? Costs and Benefits
Helen HughesSeptember 4, 2006PM72

Should Australia and New Zealand depart from their long term immigration policies to provide work...

Tackling Literacy in Remote Aboriginal Communities
Kirsten StorryAugust 31, 2006IA73

There is an alarming educational gap facing remote Aboriginal communities. The gap in literacy between...

All the Water in the World
Roger BateAugust 1, 2006PM71

Roger Bate argues that water markets in which individuals (or corporations and municipalities) trade their...

School Autonomy: A Key Reform for Improving Indigenous Education
Julie NovakJune 21, 2006IA72

The marked educational under-achievement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in remote area communities...

Taxploitation: The Case for Income Tax Reform
Peter SaundersJune 1, 2006R11

Australia’s increasingly irrational income tax system is riddled with distortions and disincentive effects. ‘There are...

Are New Zealanders Paying Too Much Tax?
Phil RennieMay 15, 2006IA71

The ever increasing tax burden has become a heated issue in New Zealand. At the...

Benchmarked into oblivion
Steven SchwartzJuly 31, 2025SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE
NAPLAN is not so much a mirror as a house of mirrors....
We need better returns on education investment
Trisha Jha, Glenn FaheyJuly 30, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH
Billions of dollars have been poured into school funding in the state over the past...
School child reading book
Education Minister Jason Clare must ensure new schools pact benefits nation
Glenn FaheyJuly 30, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN
The latest NAPLAN results confirm the sobering truth that our school system continues to underdeliver...
Government’s spending surge a threat to productivity
Simon Cowan, Robert CarlingJuly 26, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
As we get closer to the productivity roundtable that the government hopes will solve all...
Labor’s path to joining the worst welfare states
Robert CarlingJuly 23, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
Jim Chalmers’ economic reform roundtable must confront Australia’s entitlement mindset – which governments have fostered....
The 3 intergenerational challenges Chalmers’ roundtable must fix
Trisha JhaJuly 18, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
The government’s upcoming Productivity Roundtable risks being yet another fest of short-term electoral thinking....
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