Media Centre

For all media enquiries contact our Public Affairs Manager, Antoinette Abboud

email: antoinette.abboud(at)cpd.org.au  t: +61 2 9514 2034 or m: 0414 920 801

CPD people

Director Miriam Lyons, CPD fellows and More Than Luck: Ideas Australia needs now authors are available for comment during the election campaign on their areas of expertise.

UN Green Economy Initiative head Pavan Sukhdev – who will be a guest of the CPD in Australia – will be available for interviews during his visit from 2 August to 5 August. Pre-arrival interviews may be possible. Please contact Antoinette Abboud antoinette.abboud(at)cpd.org.au or call our office on +61 2 9514 2034 or 0414 920 801.

Syndication and republication

We are happy to consider requests to re-publish or syndicate CPD articles. All our content is published under a Creative Commons license with attribution. Email ideas(at)cpd.org.au for details.

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Media resources

CPD publishes short commentary and in-depth research by policy experts on a mix of topical and timeless issues. Our diverse stable of contributors includes prominent academics, politicians, current and former public servants, and independent policy analysts. We encourage our fellows and authors to look beyond the daily news cycle and dry, technical policy debates – to not only analyse the problems with current policies but propose viable alternatives. CPD publications are therefore the perfect “heads-up” for the policy debates of the future.

Past media coverage of CPD

For past media see CPD in the news

CPD media releases

Media Alert | Pavan Sukhdev: What is the world worth? Putting nature on the balance sheet 14 July 2010

Pavan Sukhdev – pioneering economist and head of the Green Economy Initiative at the United Nations Environment Program – will visit Australia in August 2010.

Pavan’s work on a major study ‘The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity’ has been described as ‘doing for nature what Sir Nicholas Stern did for climate change – valuing it’. The study hosted by UNEP makes a compelling economic case for the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity.

Media Release | More Than Luck puts the policy back into a policy-free election 30 July 2010

More than Luck: Ideas Australia needs now provides policy ideas from 21 leading Australian policy thinkers and researchers and ‘the vision thing’ missing in action from the 2010 election. All CPD authors are available for commentary, opinion pieces and interviews as the campaign unfolds. More than Luck extracts can be made available for republication.

Read the e-book here.

Unsustainable debt: Australia’s own subprime crisis

Australians are addicted to debt but we can’t afford to keep borrowing at current levels forever, according to a new report by Centre for Policy Development fellow Dr Steve Keen.