- Miriam Lyons joins Tony Jones and other panellists on ABC’s QandA 31/05/10
- Ian McAuley explains how avoiding public debt in the budget now, means the expensive problems ahead will cost more to fix. New Matilda 12/05/10
- John Quiggin comments on the Federal Budget Crikey 11/05/10
- CPD Fellow, Marcus Westbury discusses the decline of Kevin Rudds approval rating. ABC The Drum 11/05/10
- Ian McAuley explains how private cover is costing an arm and a leg New Matilda 8/05/10
- Ian McAuley asks if lifting the super levy is a good idea. New Matilda 07/05/10
- John Menadue tells Crikey’s health blog Croakey that the health reform plan needs alot more work
- Ian McAuley explains in New Matilda that although the Government have not acted on many of Henry’s recommendations there is some logic to their response.
- John Menadue tells The Age that the health reforms deserve support but are missing some cost cutting measures
- Ben Eltham asks how much a healthy nation will cost in New Matilda
- Fiona Armstrong asks whether Rudd’s Health Reforms are heading in the wrong direction and for a brick wall on Crikey’s health blog Croakey
- It’s our national neglect of all things green that really puts us in the red says Miriam Lyons in The Sydney Morning Herald
- Steve Keen is nominated for the Revere award recognising economists who forsaw the GFC
- The blueprint for Rudd’s overhaul of the public service is promising but very cautious writes Ian McAuley on New Matilda
- Jennifer Doggett tells ABC’s The Drum what she thought of Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott’s performances in the healthcare debate
- Jennifer Doggett tells Croakey that the potential benefits of paid parental leave outweigh concerns about it being equitable
- In the first of two articles John Menadue tells Crikey’s Health Blog, Croakey How to save billions in healthcare
- In the second of two articles on Croakey Ian McAuley suggests how billions could be trimmed from the health budget.
- Mark Banisch takes a look at The Coalition’s regressive plan for paid parental leave on The Drum ABC
- Resource riches can be an economic curse writes James Arvanitakis in the Australian Financial Review
- Listen to John Menadue on Radio National discussing what is driving up health care costs and the policy ideas that can create more efficiencies.
- Ian McAuley comments on Rudd’s hospital plan and private health insurance on ABC’S 7.30 Report
- The PM’s Health announcement is a promising start, Ian McAuley tells Crikey’s health blog Croakey.
- Jennifer Doggett’s proposal for a health credit card is discussed in The Medical Observer
- In the light of the GFC Lindy Edwards addresses the question “Should our lives be ruled by money?” on Compass ABC
- Ian McAuley tells Crikey that PHI premium hikes are going to raise tough questions for the government
- Ian McAuley discussed Private Health Insurance on ABC Radio Newcastle. No link available
- Listen to John Menadue discuss the 2010 Health reform agenda on ABC’s Life Matters
- Listen to Ben Eltham as he joins a panel discussion on the future of cultural policy on Radio National
- Stephen Collins’ Upgrading Democracy article is reproduced as part of his chapter for the new Gov2.0 book State of the E-Union
- Jennifer Doggett on ABC Australia Talks on what GP Super clinics will achieve and how they will improve healthcare.
- Miriam Lyons and Ben Eltham support automatic enrolments and suggest ways in which we can celebrate election days in The Sydney Morning Herald
- The Australian examines the evidence in 2 separate CPD papers that ‘Medicare Select’ is the wrong prescription for Australia’s health system
- Minister for Superannuation Chris Bowen has spoken in favour of making super tax breaks fairer. Read CPD’s Ben Spies-Butcher in the Sydney Morning Herald on Bowen’s comments in the Sydney Morning Herald
- A dose of libertarianism would enhance our democracy writes Tony Moore in The Australian
- Ian Dunlop points out where Rudd is failing the environment test in Crikey
- The private health insurance rebate is the worst health funding policy in Australia’s history. Jennifer Doggett in Crikey
- Eureka Street’s ‘Sex and Secrecy close doors to good policy‘, refers to Miriam Lyons’ open source software approach to policy making.
- Curb vocational education rorts says Denise Bradley in The Australian
- A report card for the health reform commission: D for disappointing. Fiona Armstrong on Online Opinion
- Regina Betz and Iain MacGill’s case against carbon compensation is featured in Mark Diesendorf’s new book Climate Action
- Adam Rorris in SMH urges the Government to go further in helping schools to go solar.
- Fiona Armstrong describes health reforms as a sick joke in the SMH
- Fiona Armstrong calls for health reform to go further in response to the NHHCR Report on ABC Breakfast with Fran Kelly.
- John Menadue tells The Canberra Times that the NHHRC recommendations do not go far enough.
- John Menadue outlines in Crikey (subscribers only) five critical issues that should be addressed by National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission.
- Ross Gittins examines Jennifer Doggett’s radical but practical ideas to deal with Australia’s complex, unfair and inefficient system of health copayments.
- Al Gore and CPD Fellow Ian Dunlop lend their voice to the launch of “Safe Climate Australia” reports the Sun Herald
- CPD Fellow Lindy Edwards tells The Age how letting the free market loose on climate change carries risk.
- Ian Dunlop tells The Age, that in facing up to the implications of climate change we are witnessing the greatest failure of political and corporate leadership Australia has ever seen.
- John Quiggin is amongst 21 leading economists criticizing the Coalition’s campaign against government debt
- Jennifer Doggett explains to the ABC how a proposal to increase taxes on cigarettes would direct the money of some of the worst off in our society to some of the most affluent.
- Miriam Lyons was a panellist on Q&A on ABC1, Thursday 28 May
- Eva Cox explains why the 2009 budget is oversold and unfair for Crikey
- Ian McAuley investigated irrational human behaviour and bad decisions in Boss Magazine
- Rudd’s Budget is a missed chance, said Lindy Edwards in Business Day
- Miriam Lyons was named one of the ‘Next 100 emerging leaders’ by The Australian – in the ‘Thinkers’ category
- Ben Eltham analysed where Budget money is going and where the savings are coming from for New Matilda
- Miriam Lyons was a guest triple j’s Hack Program
- Steve Keen explained collateralised debt obligations on the 7:30 Report
- The Brisbane Times quoted Ben Spies-Butcher and Adam Stebbing to show how the government could save money in the next budget
- Ian McAuley spoke about the future of agriculture in outback Australia on Radio National’s Bush Telegraph
- Steve Keen analysed the Global Financial Crisis on Big Ideas
- Miriam Lyons was interviewed in a Background Briefing program on ‘The New Politics’
- Ben Spies-Butcher and Adam Stebbing’s paper was covered in the Daily Telegraph (April 9) and Australian Policy Online
- Jennifer Doggett knocked some sense into the Senate’s debate on the alco-pop tax for Crikey
- The battle to control Australia’s fiscal policy has become an ideological war, wrote Fred Argy for Online Opinion
- The University of Technology Sydney Newsroom quoted John Menadue in Casualties of the system
- The Sydney Morning Herald covered Dr Ben Spies-Butcher and Adam Stebbing’s new paper on tax expenditures in When tax breaks become back-door baksheesh
- Ian Dunlop explained why global warming is a global emergency for Crikey (subscription required)
- Schools spending starts to bring Australia into line with its international counterparts, said Adam Rorris in Australian Policy Online.
- Steve Keen reminded us of the root causes of the financial crisis on ABC Online
- Ian McAuley weighed up the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s findings for PM, Croakey and The Age
- Are we facing a depression? If so, what will it be like? Steve Keen gives his perspective on Network 7′s Today Tonight
- Ben Eltham dissected the Rudd Government’s $42 billion economic stimulus package for New Matilda
- The gay community celebrated the recent changes to Commonwealth laws but failed to take into account the changes in the Social Security area would have on cohabiting pensioners, wrote Eva Cox for Crikey (subscription required)
- Adam Rorris spoke about the chronic underfunding of Australian public schools compared USA and UK on Network 7′s Today Tonight this week.
- Ben Eltham took a look at the state of our cultural nation for New Matilda and weighed up the Making Solid Ground Report on his cultural policy blog.
- Denise Bradley urged us to invest in higher learning in the Sydney Morning Herald
- John Quiggin discussed the main sources of uncertainty about climate change and their economic implications in Australian Policy Online
- Jennifer Doggett explained why Labor’s SuperClinics make policy sense but haven’t been implemented for Inside Story
- COAG’s billions are a wasted opportunity for health, said John Menadue for Crikey.com.au (subscription required)
- Reflections on our Common Ground event on climate change appeared on the Larvatus Prodeo blog
- Eva Cox commented on Labor’s plans to create Australia’s first ambassadors for men’s health for The Australian
- Barry Saunders looked at Obama’s new media strategy on ABC News Online
- John Menadue’s straightforward strategies to improve our health system suggested in the Medical Journal of Australia were mentioned in Croakey.
- Lyndsay Connors and Jane Caro explained why the economic downturn has clarified the case for public school funding in the Sydney Morning Herald
- Steve Keen asked if it is possible to look on the bright side of current economic data for Crikey.com.au (subscription required)
- Ben Eltham explained why pushing for mega-roads in Brisbane is bad policy in the Courier Mail
- Executive Director Miriam Lyons took a look at what the election of Barack Obama means for Australia in Larvatus Prodeo and to our attitudes to climate change for Crikey.com.au (subscription required)
- Research Coordinator Barry Saunders explained the role social media has played in the US election for ABC Online
- Miriam Lyons discussed financial decision making on BNet
- Miriam Lyons and James Murray wrote about behavioural economics and the financial crisis for The Age.
- Ben Eltham asked if there is a recession brewing in our housing bubble for New Matilda.com
- Miriam Lyons’ time as Scholar-in-Residence at the Brisbane Girls Grammar School was chronicled by the Courier-Mail.
- Steve Keen explained The Big Bust for 60 Minutes and ABC Classic FM.
- Jennifer Doggett responded to Senator Fielding’s decision to block medicare tax threshold legislation in Crikey.com.au (subscription required)
- John Quiggin explained why the need for substantial investment in infrastructure has never been greater in the Australian Financial Review
- Steve Keen helped us make sense of the current world economic meltdown for The Age
- In his appearance on Meet the Press, Steve Keen discussed the possibility of recession and how we got there
- In a talk sponsored by Arena magazine, David McKnight talked about neo-Liberalism and New Politics
- Steve Keen discussed the debt burden of Gen Y on 60 Minutes
- Courageous or admitting failure? Steve Keen analysed the Reserve Bank’s decision to cut interest rates by a full percent for Crikey (subscription required)
- Ben Eltham explained the housing affordability crisis on ABC triple j radio’s youth current affairs half hour Hack.
- Steve Keen followed his Crikey article on the Paulson bailout with some “back of the envelope” style calculations
- Fred Argy asked ‘Why is Australia is so opposed to public debt?’ for Online Opinion
- The proposed new abortion laws in Victoria prompted Jennifer Doggett to ask ‘What would Jesus do?’ and explore the role of Catholic healthcare in Crikey (subscription required)
- As the crisis on Wall St continues to unfold, John Quiggin examined how we are rewriting our financial truths in Crikey (subscription required)
- Borrowing stress, banking profits and their effects on Australians drew comment from Steve Keen for ABC Online and the Daily Telegraph
- With paid parental leave finally on the national policy agenda, Eva Cox commented on the Productivity Commission’s recommendations for the ABC Online
- Steve Keen wrote about our financial chickens flocking home to roost for The Age and commented on the implications of the biggest US government bailout of its economy since the Great Depression on the 7.30 Report
- Mark Davis called out for CPD support in his guest post for Blogocracy.
- Resident fiscal guru Steve Keen commented on the effect of the slowing economy on the housing market for SBS Insight’s ‘Bursting the Bubble‘.
- Eva Cox broke down generalisations about long day care for ABC News in Parents deserve right to choose children’s care.
- David McKnight asked Who is behind the climate change deniers? for WA Today.
- Ian Dunlop took a long term view on increasing oil prices for Australasian Science and ABC Radio National’s Ockham’s Razor. Read an online version ‘Peak Oil’ drives urgent energy alternatives in Online Opinion.
- CPD fellow Steve Keen was profiled in Sydney broadsheet the Sydney Morning Herald.
- CPD Board Director John Menadue’s innovative idea of auctioning provider numbers to encourage GPs and medical specialists to work in remote and disadvantaged areas featured in online commentary Crikey.com (subscribers only).
- Ian McAuley’s perspective on the Case for a single national health insurer caught the eye of Australian Ageing Agenda, the Department of Health and Ageing’s online magazine.
- The Age also covered CPD fellow Ian McAuley’s new CPD paper Case for a single national health insurer on the in Single-desk Insurance is a healthier option.
- CPD Director Miriam Lyons took on Politics and the Academy on ABC1‘s Q and A on Thursday, 3rd July.
- CPD fellow Ian Dunlop pointed out the elephant in the room in recent debate over petrol prices: peak oil. See Oils Ain’t Spoils in New Matilda.
- Director Miriam Lyons examined how our political system – and our new leaders – will really stand up to the challenges of the 21st century in her Crikey article Fixing Politics: Short term gain vs Long term pain.
- Ben Eltham looked at the politics behind rising rent prices in Fixing politics: the housing affordability crisis for Crikey.com.au
- Private schools received $8billion dollars more than public schools for capital investment over 2002-05, wrote CPD fellow Adam Rorris in his opinion piece Boost Public School Funding for The Canberra Times.
- The Australian also reported on Adam Rorris’s analysis of the vicious cycle of public school underinvestment in their article Public school funding short by $8.4bn.
- CPD fellow Kate Crawford went on an adventure in democracy on Q & A on Thursday, June 12 2008.
- James Arvanitakis was dismayed at the lack of political courage and vision in recent debates about Bill Henson and petrol prices in his opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald. Read his orginal article for CPD or the revised version Leaders Stuck in Porn and Petrol Quagmire.
- CPD fellow Ian McAuley gave a new perspective to the ongoing petrol prices controversy in Fuel Price Debate Ignores Real Issue for Melbourne’s The Age.
- Health crisis or hype? Centre for Policy Development fellow Jennifer Doggett unpacked the Rudd Government’s changes to the Australian health system in Why the Private Health Insurance Changes Won’t Break the System for Crikey.com.au
- Tony Moore sunk his teeth into the education debate on ABC Unleashed in A Real Education Revolution.
- Ian McAuley debated the future place of private health cover with Australia Talks host Paul Barclay and other guests on ABC Radio National. Listen to the full segment, Private Health Insurance.
- Eva Cox cast a critical eye over changes to Family Tax Benefit B and the Baby Bonus in the 2008 Federal Budget for Crikey.com.au. Read How the Budget Demonises Women (Crikey subscription required).
- Ian McAuley speculated about the Federal Government decision to lift the private health income threshold in 600,000 May Quit Health Insurance for The Age newspaper.
- CPD Director Miriam Lyons answered some tricky questions during the pilot of the ABC’s new political television program, Q&A.
- Steve Keen spoke about subprime lending on 60 Minutes on Sunday, 11th May. Watch Steve in the House of Cards.
- CPD fellow David McKnight’s discussion of post-2020 politics Climate Change at the Helm of Labor’s Next Big Idea was featured in NSW broadsheet the Sydney Morning Herald.
- CPD fellow, Ian McAuley examined the impact of rising health costs on the national economy in his Crikey article: Treasurer Should Target Health Sector to Combat Inflation (Crikey subscription required).
- CPD Director Miriam Lyons and fellow John Quiggin attended the 2020 Ideas Summit. Read John’s take on the Summit here and Miriam’s response in Crikey here (subscription required).
- CPD fellow Tony Moore revised his article from last edition of InSight for the Sydney Morning Herald: Your ABC board should be sacked, not stacked.
- Jennifer Doggett spoke to 2SER’s Razor’s Edge following her article for Crikey about the regulation of alcohol advertising.
- Ian McAuley wrote about The private health insurance mess and A matter of choice for ABC Unleashed.
- CPD fellow Denise Bradley has just been appointed to chair a major review of Higher Education.
- Meredith Edwards’ piece on Participatory Governance and the Indigenous Agenda was published in the Public Sector Informant supplement to the Canberra Times.
- Writing for Crikey as ‘A health fund manager’, Jennifer Doggett begged Minister Roxon to understand why continued premium increases are essential to the survival of private health insurance…What do you think we’re running here? Medicare?
- John Menadue’s speech to the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators was covered by the Canberra Times.
- Jennifer Doggett wrote that Australia’s stonewalling on hospital scorecards gets a D- for ABC Online.
- Mark Bahnisch questioned the fable of the cultural elite in The Australian.
- Lindy Edwards explored the Apology and the Battle over Australian Identity in the Canberra Times.
- John Menadue’s interview on YouTube discusses the challenges facing Health policy reform in Australia ahead of his chairing of the AFR Health Congress on February 27.
- Mark Bahnisch spoke to 4ZZZ about funding issues in tertiary education.
- Mark also wrote about how The Bulletin had lost touch in the age of online news for ABC Online.
- John Quiggin’s CPD Occasional Paper The Risk Society was paid the compliment of a full length reply in Quadrant by Henry Ergas. You can read the Quadrant piece here and John’s response here.
- Jennifer Doggett discussed performance pay for doctors on ABC Radio National’s Life Matters
- John Menadue in Crikey on Why COAG must commit to health redesign – not just handing over more money
- Ian McAuley asked whether we’re expecting too much from our hospitals on Australia Talks Back, Radio National
- Miriam Lyons talked about Resetting Australia’s cultural thermostat in Crikey
- Mark Bahnisch talked about A change of climate on ABC Unleashed.
- CPD Director Miriam Lyons was quoted in the Sunday Times on how Lazarus lost his touch with voters
- Steve Keen said it was A lose-lose election for homebuyers in The Age, and converted swinging voters on SBS Insight
- Mark Bahnisch and Ben Eltham blogged the election at New Matilda’s Polliegraph
- Fred Argy sparked discussion of ‘Australia’s fiscal straightjacket’ in The Age, Radio National’s PM, and the Canberra Times, and asked if low unemployment has to come with a high price in Online Opinion
- Also in Online Opinion, Miriam Lyons asked if a Labor government could escape the Liberals’ legacy, and Ben Eltham wrote on Rethinking Australian foreign policy in a post-Bush world
- Tony Moore wrote that Howard is bad for business in ABC Unleashed
- John Menadue commented on the ALP’s proposal for reducing waiting lists in The Australian
- Steve Keen’s paper ‘Deeper in Debt: Australia’s addiction to borrowed money‘ received a great deal of coverage. Click here for a small selection.
- Steve also appeared on ABC’s Lateline Business arguing that an interest rate rise may not be in the interests of our economy, on the 7:30 Report analysing the impact of the rise, and on Channel 10′s meet the press on November 11.
- CPD Chair John Menadue in the Australian on the dangerous short-termism of Howard’s takeover of the Mersey Hospital (article titled State grab: now Bishop eyes schools)
- CPD Director Miriam Lyons in the SMH on the secrets of Rudd’s success
- CPD fellow John Quiggin’s paper ‘The Risk Society’ was featured as a series in Crikey and was the subject of an article by Kenneth Davidson in The Age
- CPD Chair John Menadue was interviewed by the Australian on the threat that private health insurance subsidies pose to Medicare and on how to improve safety in hospitals
- Steve Keen’s paper ‘Deeper in Debt: Australia’s addiction to borrowed money‘ received a great deal of coverage. The Age’s Nassim Khadem reported that our Fondness for debt paves the way for a major recession and The Australian ran with Mortgage debt ‘will reach crisis’. Channel 7, Channel 10, and the ABC’s ‘World Today’ program also covered the story, and Eureka St ran an editorial on the more personal side of how our Addiction to borrowed money will hurt us. Extracts from the paper were published in a special liftout on housing affordability in the Sydney Morning Herald on September 22.
- CPD fellow Eva Cox was a guest on the ABC’s ‘Difference of Opinion‘, debating the question ‘What should the Australian government do with its massive government surplus?’, 9:25pm Thursday 20 September.
- CPD fellow Emma Dawson on ‘Culture Test’, a special broadcast of Insight on SBS TV, Tuesday 18 September.
- CPD fellow Mark Bahnisch speaking to Geraldine Doogue about blogging on Radio National’s Saturday Extra
- CPD Chair John Menadue in the Australian on the dangerous short-termism of Howard’s takeover of the Mersey Hospital (article titled State grab: now Bishop eyes schools)
- CPD Director Miriam Lyons in the SMH on the secrets of Rudd’s success
- Jennifer Doggett in Crikey on why the Commonwealth’s $1 billion health debt to the states should be invested in primary care (Crikey subscribers only). Doggett’s paper, ‘A New Approach to Primary Care‘ is also quoted in the ALP’s new Preventative Health Policy
- Miriam Lyons and CPD fellow Steve Keen in the Age on Australia’s record household debt levels
- CPD fellow Emma Dawson went head to head with Andrew McIntyre from the Institute for Public Affairs on ABC radio Melbourne 774 on June 29
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About Miriam Lyons
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.