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CIS research into school funding aims to ensure that the taxpayers’ money is spent wisely and on policy and initiatives that provide genuine education outcomes for students and the wider Australian community.

Taxpayers’ money is Gonski
Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Blaise JosephApril 30, 2018The Daily Telegraph

If the new Gonski report on education is a ‘blueprint’ for building student achievement as...

Gonksi fails a second time around
Jennifer Buckingham OAMApril 30, 2018The Australian Financial Review

The highly anticipated Gonski 2.0 report offers little useful guidance for schools and school systems,...

Cut the losses on Gonski 2.0 review and quietly back away
Jennifer Buckingham OAMApril 30, 2018The Spectator Australia

You have to feel just a little bit sorry for Simon Birmingham. The federal education...

Gonski 2.0 report is a failure: education experts
Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Blaise JosephApril 30, 2018MEDIA RELEASE

The highly anticipated Gonski 2.0 report is a failure that offers little useful guidance for...

Religious freedom priority over funding
Blaise JosephMarch 23, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Bill Shorten’s promise to give an extra $250 million to the Catholic school system has...

Yes, Gonski
Blaise JosephNovember 16, 2017THE SPECTATOR

  The current political wisdom in education — or at least, the ‘wisdom’ of the...

Revisiting Indigenous Education
Helen HughesApril 9, 2009PM94

Literacy and numeracy of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in remote Australia have not improved...

Fixing Prices: Why Vouchers Won’t Work While Governments Set Fees
Andrew NortonFebruary 11, 2009IA105

In December 2008, the federal government received the Review of Australian Higher Education: Final Report,...

Confessions of an Industrial Relations Club reporter
Michael StutchburyNovember 21, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
A half-century on from stagflation, outdated workplace rules and union monopolies remain the biggest barrier...
Australian money
Double the debt and half the fiscal clues
Robert CarlingNovember 21, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH
The Labor government’s early surpluses now look like a flash in the pan and the...
A good budget means setting some rules and adhering to them
Robert Carling, Simon CowanNovember 15, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
There is a long history of fiscal rules, but the overall record is patchy, with...
Tolerance ends where darkest hatred begins
Peter KurtiNovember 12, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH

Tolerance is often treated as an unqualified virtue. But even virtues have limits. When men...

SUPER WARS
Productivity Commission piles in to Labor’s schizophrenic war on big business
Michael StutchburyNovember 7, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Industry Minister Tim Ayres rightly says that Australia is in competition for global capital as...

The hard truth: why the government should let this smelter fail
Simon CowanNovember 1, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
If Tomago meets the criteria for a taxpayer bailout, then so do thousands of other...
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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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