Insight | Budget 2011
CPD authors find a lot of blinkered thinking in the race to a surplus. Here’s what you will find in the Budget 2011 edition of InSight. more…
Recent Thinking Points
John Menadue | Navigating the Refugee Fact Free Zone
John Menadue, a CPD Director and formerly Secretary of the Department of Immigration in the Fraser Government (1980 – 1983), offers a roadmap for those seeking the facts amidst the the heated debate about refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. He … more…
Q: What is the plural noun for public servants?
A: An agency. Public service critics and detractors are rarely so kind. Pledges to reduce the size of public service agencies are a routine element of political and media cycles. Kevin Rudd spoke of ‘administrative bloating’ when the Howard Government … more…
Public services in the news 14/6/11
The Rudd and Gillard governments clearly applied the brakes to the bureaucracy’s expansion… more…
Latest Publications
John Quiggin | Gillard’s Labor Has Lost Its Heritage
Wayne Swan’s Budget speech opened with a commendation of ‘this Labor budget’ and closed with an invocation of the … more…
James Arvanitakis & Alex Surace | The Disease that Ate the Budget
Wayne Swan’s fourth budget can be commended for beginning to address upper-class welfare and ending unnecessary tax cuts. However, Australia … more…
Eva Cox | Making a Society More Fragile
The primary and secondary purpose of Gillard’s first budget as PM appears to be economic growth for its own sake. … more…
