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Six Arguments in Favour of Self-Funding
Peter SaundersJuly 14, 2005IA61

This report is the second in a series of three titled ‘Restoring Self-Reliance in Welfare.’...

Clearing Muddy Waters: Why Vinnies are Wrong on Inequality
Peter SaundersJune 21, 2005IA60

The Vinnies researchers claim we are on a ‘headlong dash into the chasm of inequality’...

A Headlong Dash into the Chasm of Hyperbole
Peter SaundersJune 8, 2005IA59

The paper’s rhetoric is unsupportable. It warns of a return to a 19th century minimal...

In Defence of Global Capitalism
Johan NorbergJune 2, 2005SP08

Political power has always been a creature of geography, based on physical control of a...

Papua New Guinea’s Choice: A Tale of Two Nations
Helen HughesMay 31, 2005IA58

Even these small beginnings invited a vigorous opposition. For police supplementing their pay by consorting...

Lessons from the Tiwi Islands: The Need for Radical Improvement in Remote Aboriginal Communities
John ClearyMay 24, 2005IA55

Radical change and new directions are needed if policies and delivery of services to remote...

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Robodebt royal commission highlighted flawed processes
Simon CowanMarch 11, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

If you haven’t been playing close attention, you might have missed the disturbing findings coming...

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Chalmers’ purpose for superannuation is to unite it to Labor’s worldview
Simon CowanFebruary 25, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

The super wars are back! Well … strictly speaking, they never left us. But after...

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Control of information the name of the game for ‘yes’ Voice campaign
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOFebruary 17, 2023Sky

The Voice campaign depends on accurate and unbiased information being given to the public. The...

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Indigenous Voice to Parliament vote at risk due to bad faith
Simon CowanJanuary 28, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

For a project supposedly based in a call for goodwill and respect, the Indigenous Voice...

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Annoy the Woke Left, Celebrate Australia Day
January 25, 2023WALL STREET JOURNAL

Americans are familiar with the woke left: noisy activists who feel the need to rewrite...

Australian schools are failing
Why Australian schools are failing
Glenn FaheyJanuary 23, 2023FINANCIAL REVIEW

A new Productivity Commission report confirms what’s long been known: Australian schools are failing on...

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