Recent publications in Occasional Paper
Commonwealth reform negative value-adding components
Programs Identified with Negative Benefits
Australia's Big Government, by the Numbers
A paper providing the most comprehensive historical estimates of the size of government in Australia.
Consumer first supermarket reform: The market, not government, knows how to best meet consumer demand
Consumer first supermarket reform: The market, not government, knows how to best meet consumer demand
IPA State Business Tax Calculator Report
IPA State Business Tax Calculator Report
IPA State Business Tax Calculator Fact Sheet
IPA State Business Tax Calculator Fact Sheet
Razor cuts, not paper cuts
A framework for rightsizing commonwealth government employment
Recalculating the Impact of the Carbon Tax: How changes to global carbon accounting standards will wipe our household over-compensation
By the end of this year household carbon tax ‘over-compensation' will be wiped out by changes to the global carbon accounting rules used to calculate the environmental impact of greenhouse gases. The changes will: Increase Australia's...
Accountability for our aid dollar - Time to hit the pause button?
There are serious questions to be asked about the number of NGOs that actively campaign for more aid expenditure in Australia, while they are concurrently recipients of that aid. Some of these NGOs receive aid funding to engage in...
Galaxy poll: Cost of climate change survey
Prepared for the Institute of Public Affairs - May, 2012
Does Australia have a Productivity Growth Problem?
Ever since Paul Krugman stated that productivity was ‘almost everything', policy makers have been obsessed with improving it. This focus has led to a great deal of policy confusion. Productivity is important, but it is not an active policy...