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January 27, 2011
Larissa Behrendt | Close the gap and other rhetoric in the place of real policies
Larrisa Behrendt considers what the term 'close the gap' really means for Indigenous policy development. If we are to move past an 'Era of Symbolism' Larissa argues our government cannot continue to overlook and dismiss the knowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have about solving their own problems.
Read her article here in The Drum as our ideas series continues.
January 26, 2011
Ian McAuley: How can the health portfolio contribute to the floods rebuild?
One the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard announcing a temporary levy on taxpayers to help fund the floods rebuild, CPD fellow Ian McAuley offers his thoughts about where savings in federal health spending could be found, to help make up the shortfall.
Read the full article in Crikey's health blog Croakey here.
January 24, 2011
John Menadue: Immigration Nation
In a fascinating series, Immigration Nation, on SBS about Australia's history as a migrant nation, CPD's John Menadue looks back on the part he played in turning away from a discriminatory and draconian White Australia Policy.
You can watch the series online here.
January 23, 2011
Jennifer Doggett | A Medicare Safety Net for those that don't need it
Like a pair of fish-net stockings on a big night out, the Extended Medicare Safety-net is a good idea in theory. But CPD's Jennifer Doggett finds that in practice it fails to deliver support where it is really needed.
Read her article here in The Drum as our series of big ideas for 2011 continues.
January 20, 2011
Ben Spies-Butcher | An Imagined Crisis? Accounting for the real costs of population ageing
Our ideas series continues in The Drum with a piece from Ben Spies-Butcher who tackles an age-old problem.
Current policies to deal with population ageing actually increase costs. We can save billions and enjoy a more relaxed, longer life if only we start to do our numbers properly, writes Ben Spies-Butcher. Read more here.
January 19, 2011
Eva Cox: being a stamp is OK, but I'm still pushing the envelope
CPD congratulate our Fellow and long time feminist scholar and activist, Eva Cox, for her recent recognition from Australia Post for her contributions to our society. Her face has made it's way onto a stamp!
Read what Eva has to say about that and why she's still pushing the envelope in her piece on Crikey here.
January 18, 2011
Ian McAuley: Living off our resources
Ian McAuley considers why the government's 'triple bottom line' approach to the Murray Darling Basin does not tackle the urgent challenge of adjusting our economic structure to deal with the hard reality that we're living beyond the capacity of our scarce resources.
Read his article, the second in our big ideas series on The Drum Unleashed here.
January 17, 2011
The 2011 to-do list: CPD's ideas for public policy on ABC's The Drum Unleashed
At the start of a new year, CPD thinkers and contributors to our recent publication, More Than Luck: Ideas Australia needs now ask how might we expect the shrill tone of the national conversation to change? What policy resolutions might our elected representatives make for 2011? This series in The Drum Unleashed presents ideas for citizens who want to see fundamental changes to how the country is run and a to-do-list for politicians who want to look beyond the polls or the next election cycle to tackle the future before it tackles us.
Over the next two weeks, you'll find ideas from Ian McAuley, Larissa Behrendt, Chris Bonnor, Ben-Spies Butcher and Jennifer Doggett on how Australia can do politics differently in 2011.
Read the first piece by Miriam Lyons and Mark Davis here.
"It's no great national secret that there's a dearth of genuine leadership in federal politics at the moment.
If genuine leadership had been on offer then voters wouldn't have elected a hung parliament. The pundits aren't impressed either, which is remarkable given that many consider the media to be part of the problem. As The Australian journalist George Megalogenis wrote in his recent Quarterly Essay , a long era of political reform since the 1980s has ceded into an era of low-risk politics and political gamesmanship - 'politics as usual' – with the result that 'the noughties was our least active decade for public policy in more than a generation'."
Continue reading here.
The 2011 to-do list: Ideas for public policy on ABC's The Drum Unleashed
Over the next two weeks, the ABC's The Drum Unleashed presents ideas from CPD thinkers including Ian McAuley, Larissa Behrendt, Chris Bonnor and Ben-Spies Butcher, about how Australia can do politics differently in 2011 – and overcome the the noisy yet static tedium of politics-as-usual.
Check out the first piece by Miriam Lyons and Mark Davis here.
January 13, 2011
Policy Resolutions 2011: Putting Australian culture under the microscope
In the final installment of the Policy Resolutions 2011 series on The Punch, Ben Eltham calls for federal cultural policy to recognise and support a broader definition of Australian culture, in order to encompass the great cultural depth and diversity that Australia has to offer.
Read the full article here.
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