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Governments spend taxpayers’ money on a wide range of programmes from education to defence and from welfare to infrastructure. Yet there can be too much of a good thing, and some government spending is just wasteful. How can we ensure that taxpayers are getting value for money?

Why we’re in such a sorry state
Robert CarlingFebruary 17, 2011The Courier Mail

The political scrap over the Gillard Government's flood levy is capturing the headlines, but events...

The Multi-layered Hayek
Oliver Marc HartwichDecember 22, 2010OP122

Friedrich August von Hayek was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century. His...

FaHCSIA Indigenous Economic Development Strategy 2010
Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes, Sara HudsonDecember 17, 2010

Governments state that their objective is for Indigenous townships to develop and prosper like

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Borrowers lose as mortgage industry takes its $4bn win
Stephen KirchnerDecember 14, 2010The Age (Business)

The government's decision to add a further $4 billion to its existing $16 billion investment...

Empires on the Edge of Chaos: The Nasty Fiscal Arithmetic of Imperial Decline
Niall FergusonDecember 14, 2010OP118

In the 26th John Bonython lecture, Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s leading geo-economic thinkers...

Submission to Native Title Leading Practice Agreements Discussion Paper 2010
Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes, Sara HudsonNovember 30, 2010

The Native Title process is only one of the processes returning land to traditional owners....

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