• 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?

Future Submarine Project – CIS Report
October 23, 2012
The fall in Australian poverty
Andrew BakerOctober 19, 2012

This week is Anti-Poverty Week, and the media repeated the welfare lobby’s line that there...

Abusing the logic of human rights
Andrew BakerOctober 12, 2012

Welfare reform is now a human rights abuse, according to the welfare lobby and the...

The dangerous idea of abolishing private schools
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 12, 2012

A few weeks ago I was a panellist at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. The...

Fiscal discipline isn’t austerity but good government
Simon CowanOctober 12, 2012

It was inevitable, given the modern trend of sloganism, that those opposed to small government...

A new way to stymie cost reduction
Alexander PhilipatosOctober 5, 2012

Given the problems European governments are having reining in public spending – and given how...

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