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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That's not a tough budget - this is a tough budget
You might have picked up a theme in Wayne Swan's fourth budget. It was tough. How do we know this? Because the government told us so. In a major...
Ignoring the deficit: disappointingly predictable
Is there any less edifying event in Australian politics than The Budget? Each year the Treasurer offers a seemingly arbitrary smattering of policy...
The trouble with 'taxeaters' (aka middle-class welfare recipients)
Thinking about tax policy gives individuals the opportunity to devise their own "great society". As economics laureate James Buchanan explains...
For budgets only smaller is tougher
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and senior Ministers such as Treasurer Wayne Swan and Finance Minister Penny Wong have warned Australians of a...
Government subsidies to green groups must end
The Victorian, New South Wales and Federal Governments' have been using taxpayer funds to support advocacy organisations which encourage radical...
Hey, big spenders, look at Victoria
A new report on Victorian public finances underscores why state governments require stronger fiscal rules to promote budget responsibility. The...
What happened to the meat axe?
Remember when Kevin Rudd said he was "dead serious" about bringing back the razor gang to trim the public service? Two days before the 2007 federal...
Why bad policy can be good politics
Why would the Gillard government want to cut an unambiguously popular area of government spending - medical research? Because, perversely, it may...
Totting up carbon tax is anything but a piece of cake
When asked on ABC1's Q & A about the carbon tax we'll pay on a birthday cake Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten joked he didn't know how many...
Learning from public policy mistakes of the GFC
In the Financial Times at the end of March, the former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan wrote "With notably rare exceptions (2008, for...
