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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Carbon price makes no policy sense
Gillard will need a big policy win this term. Even better if it's a win on the policy that sank her predecessor. So it was hardly surprising that...
Sum of all fears for non-government school system
The new Labor-Green dominated Government has magnified the deep uncertainties already being felt by Australia's non-government schools over...
Bankrolling Oprah: the new tourist strategy
Fifty per cent of all advertising is wasted, says the marketing cliché. The problem is figuring out which fifty per cent. Last week we had a...
Savaging a popular policy a tricky task for Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull's elevation to the shadow communications portfolio may be just what the debate over the national broadband network needs. It could...
Shoppers better off if building red tape is cut
Planning Minister Justin Madden, on the advice of a committee he had established, rejected Woolworths' application to build a new hardware store in...
Tea Party conservatives are brewing up a storm
It was hardly needed, but the Tea Party confirmed this week it's a big deal in American politics. It's a big deal for conservative politics...
Big new tax? Kloppers can't be serious
IT was almost as if BHP Billiton's Marius Kloppers had already cleared with the government the speech he delivered in favour of a carbon tax. The...
Abbott needs a to-do list
The federal liberals are making the same mistakes as the Victorian liberal Party. In 1999 after Jeff Kennett narrowly lost the state election,...
No new paradigm
"New paradigm": strange that a phrase coined by Bob Katter could get so much currency. But despite the unusual result of this election, everything...
What can we expect from our government?
While independents, Greens and Australian Democrats have played major roles in the Senate, the normal position of independents in the lower House...
