• Government Spending

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?

Making things worse
John HumphreysMay 11, 2009Business Spectator

There is an ongoing debate about whether the government’s spending spree is going to work...

Paid Maternity Leave and the Global Financial Crisis
April 10, 2009

Paid maternity leave was a high profile election promise of the Rudd government, but with...

Lost in numbers
Oliver Marc HartwichApril 10, 2009

Imagine a journey of nine trillion four hundred sixty billion seven hundred thirty million four...

More Stimulating than a Big Bang
Geoff HogbinMarch 20, 2009

It’s not rocket science. If you tax employment you can expect to get less of...

Housing finance hardly an effective indicator of fiscal policy success
Stephen KirchnerMarch 20, 2009

The recent surge in housing finance commitments has been cited as evidence for the effectiveness...

With No Particular Place To Go: The Federal Government’s Ill-conceived Support for the Australian Car Industry
Oliver Marc HartwichMarch 17, 2009IA108

The government’s ‘New Car Plan for a Greener Future,’ launched in November 2008 allocated $6.2...

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