• Productivity

Productivity is more than industrial relations
Simon CowanJuly 26, 2013

It's not often that I agree with a unionist, especially one like ACTU Secretary Dave...

Infrastructure, not entitlement, needed to boost productivity
Greg LindsayJuly 25, 2013The Australian Financial Review

Australia has a productivity problem. In the past decade, multi-factor productivity has declined by 5...

Productivity Commission misleads on Indigenous expenditure
Helen HughesSeptember 7, 2012

The Productivity Commission’s second Indigenous Expenditure Report, released earlier this week, shows that Commonwealth, state...

Productivity needs a shot in the arm — why not a GST boost?
October 18, 2011Crikey

No tax provokes as much irrational trepidation among our political leaders as the GST. The...

Taxploitation II: Tax Reform for Incentive,Productivity and Economic Growth
John Humphreys, Robert Carling, Sinclair Davidson, Stephen KirchnerJuly 13, 2011R12

This volume brings together papers on different aspects of tax reform published by the CIS...

Tax cuts will help achieve productivity goal
Robert CarlingMarch 5, 2010

Despite decades of tinkering and sporadic reform, the personal income tax system remains in need...

Submission to Productivity Commission’s Investing in cheaper, cleaner energy and the net zero transformation Interim Report
September 15, 2025

The Productivity Commission’s statement that careful emissions reduction policy design will enable gains in productivity...

The Need for Reform of Land Use Policy: Submission to the Productivity Commission
Peter TulipMarch 23, 2022

This submission focuses strongly on the housing affordability aspect of Australia’s productivity. Submission to the...

Submission to Productivity Commission – Draft report: Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services
Michael Potter, Sara HudsonJuly 14, 2017CIS Submission

The Productivity Commission (PC) released a draft report proposing reforms to increased competition, contestability and...

Submission to the Productivity Commission 5 year productivity review: Increasing Australia’s Future Prosperity
Michael PotterDecember 15, 2016CIS Submission

The submission by CIS Research Fellow Michael Potter argues: An excellent productivity boosting agenda is...

Submission to the Productivity Commission on the Preliminary Findings Report: Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services: Identifying Sectors for Reform
Sara HudsonOctober 27, 2016CIS Submission

To improve Indigenous outcomes, there needs to be better management of overall funding and a...

Productivity Commission Inquiry Into Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services: Submission in response to issues paper
Trisha JhaJuly 1, 2016CIS Submission

The Human Services Inquiry is ‘examining policy options in the human services sector that incorporate...

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