The Centre for Policy Development has well and truly hit the ground running. Our website is now live, with all the content from New Matilda's policy portal transferred across – and our first event is tomorrow.
Complimentary membership has been extended to all New Matilda subscribers. You can now log in to the new site at www.cpd.org.au with your existing New Matilda username and password. Come and have a look around the site – and please let us know what you think.
If you can come and join us in Sydney tomorrow for a Reality Check on the state of Australia's economy, please do. We're inviting our speakers to tell both major parties what they need to do to face up to reality on climate change, debt, and the growing problem of 'time poverty'. This is the kind of stratetgic intervention in public debate that we plan to do a lot more of as we grow.
The first edition of InSight, the monthly magazine of the CPD, will come out on Monday May 7th. You can read a sneak peak below: in 'Lucky country, unlucky leadership' CPD fellow Ian McAuley tackles the myth of Howard's 'sound economic management'.
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Miriam Lyons is the Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Development. Formerly the Policy Coordinator of New Matilda, Miriam has a long history of bringing policy ideas to new audiences, as the founding director of the Interface Festival of Ideas in Sydney, and director of the Ideas Program for the StraightOutof Brisbane Festival. Miriam has also worked as a freelance writer and a media development consultant in East Timor with the international NGO, Internews. Miriam was a participant in the 2020 Summit and was recently nominated in the Thinkers’ category of The Australian’s Emerging Leaders series. 