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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?

The Coming Crisis of Medicare
October 30, 2007

The Coming Crisis of Medicare  Medicare is becoming an anachronism.  The ‘free and universal’ taxpayer-funded...

Child Care: Who Benefits?
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 24, 2007IA89

Arguments for the public funding of child care rest on the claim that it is...

Tax circle good for no one
Peter SaundersJuly 10, 2007The Australian

In the past 40 years, our relationship with state and commonwealth governments has been revolutionised....

The Organisation of Residential Aged Care for an Ageing Population
Warren HoganJuly 2, 2007PM76

At the heart of this paper is the re-assertion of the need for a system...

Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ‘Homelands’ in Transition
Helen HughesJune 30, 2007SP09

Some 90,000 of Australia’s 500,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders live appallingly deprived lives in...

Places left untouched by reform
May 16, 2007The Australian

The $5 billion Higher Education Endowment Fund announced in last week's budget gives the Government...

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