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Closing the gap billions must be evaluated
February 16, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The Prime Minister’s annual Closing the Gap speech unsurprisingly revealed that for yet another year...

Higher minimum wage will lower economic health
February 16, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Bill Shorten’s proposal to permanently link the minimum wage rate to 60% of the median...

In praise of John Hyde
February 16, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

In economic policy, as in fashion and music, the 1970s were generally a dreary decade:...

Gonski for Health won’t save public hospitals
February 9, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The debate over the rising cost of private health insurance has dominated the headlines so...

Big data and welfare
February 9, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The idea of big data in the welfare system has come to be associated with...

Modest bid for Muslim trade
February 9, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Officials at DFAT have demonstrated once again that bureaucrats living in the Canberra bubble can...

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