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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Government red tape puts us in house bind
According to the English humourist Auberon Waugh, the urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite...
Fiscal reckoning looms for 'low taxing' Labor
Julia Gillard is facing a make-or-break year. This is the last year of leeway before the federal budget has to be in surplus. In 2012-13 the...
A vision worth voting for
Australian politicians have lost the will to embark on ambitious and meaningful reforms. Instead, the default position of governments is to tax,...
Drowning in Gillard's flood levy spin
The Prime Minister first raised the prospect of a flood levy 10 days ago. Her government wants taxpayers to believe the levy is an unavoidable...
A tax by any other name
Because politicians know voters don't like tax increases, Julia Gillard won't be imposing a flood tax. Instead, as she announced yesterday, there...
Micromanagement in the regulatory state
Another year, another 6,369 pages of law. Spread over 150 acts, that was the Commonwealth's total new legislation in 2010. Not a bad effort...
Pulling plug on electricity means NSW people lose out
The parliamentary impasse between the Premier and the opposition over whether the electricity industry sale should be examined reignites an issue...
Uncertainty the villain, not the power sales process
The parliamentary impasse between New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally and the opposition over whether the electricity industry sale should be...
Gillard's government balancing act
As 2011 opens, Labor is going to face that Julia Gillard's biggest problem is a crisis of legitimacy. Not the sort of legitimacy Tony Abbott was...
Words must turn into action on free trade
Craig Emerson's excellent speech leading the directionless Gillard Government toward a new free trade revolution are welcome words, but only if he...
