Governance & Service Provision
Governance & Service Provision
The Institute of Public Affairs examines the the critical area of government and public sector reform, the importance of a strong civil society and high levels of social capital, and the importance of choice and competition in the traditionally government provided sectors of health and education.
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2016 holds hope for Republicans
Looking at the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls, it's no wonder many conservatives are despondent. To call the field lacklustre is...
Crippled by its crutches
According to Ralph Norris, overseas investors are worried about the Gillard government. No matter how worried overseas investors are, they should...
The less Parliament sits, the better off we all will be
'We're getting on with the job.'' This has long been the standard response of Julia Gillard and her leadership team to questions about low poll...
One savings account we don't need
How could a Liberal support a sovereign wealth fund? A number of Liberal MPs have recently been publicly floating the idea of a sovereign wealth...
Is the nostalgia surrounding the Button Steel Plan misguided?
In late August, BlueScope Steel announced it would close a blast furnace in Port Kembla and a hot strip mill in Hastings, southern Victoria, as...
Award is work of many men
Sir Isaac Newton, that great creature of the Scientific Revolution, once humbly declared, ``If I have seen further it is by standing on the...
Australia's Future Fund: a complex beast of good and bad
Beneath the heat of current public debate there is little light being shed on some important policy issues. This week the story broke that the...
Replay of Samson's fate
There's a touch of Samson-in-the temple about the Gillard government - it's a government that could bring itself down and everything around it. In...
The Government's costly mining mistake
The first mistake the Gillard Government made was on the mining tax. The Rudd government had come undone by an audacious tax grab and Gillard...
What matters more: stability or Question Time?
The little we see of parliament isn't the true measure of our political culture. Nobody who has ever sat through a full session of Federal...
