This week in snapshots:
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Articles by CPD:
Policy Snapshots
This week in SNAPSHOTS:
- The great Australian dream and an American nightmare
- The place to be: at what price?
- Arming Israel
- More on Welfare to Work
The great Australian dream?
Policy Snapshots
This week in SNAPSHOTS:
- Special focus on Welfare to Work: principles and realities
- PLUS East Timor's future
- AND Why do people choose private health insurance?
Welfare to Work: principles and realities
Policy snapshots
Every fortnight the Centre for Policy Development Policy will link to recently published items – reports, commentaries, discussion papers or submissions to parliamentary inquiries – that inject bright ideas into current policy debates.
This fortnight's pick:
- Striking a balance between work, family and life
- Principles and long-term policies
- The world's heating up, tackling climate change is cool
- Biofuel
Striking a balance between work, family and life
Policy snapshots
Every fortnight the Centre for Policy Development Policy will link to five recently published items – reports, commentaries, discussion papers or submissions to parliamentary inquiries – that inject bright ideas into current policy debates.
This fortnight's pick:
Reclaiming Our Common Wealth
Calling on all Australian politicians to re-think the way they develop public policy, Reclaiming our Common Wealth argues that the short-term thinking of the election cycle is damaging Australia's long-term interests. We need a new approach to policy development based on consistent principles, underpinned by enduring values. more
Education policy program — call for responses
The Centre for Policy Development‘s policy priorities. We intend to take a logical approach to education and publish on a range of identified topics. The first topic we wish to consider is: ‘Why parents are anxious about their children’s futures, and how our education system might respond’
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Recommended reading: Polices for transitional labour markets
The authors of From risk to opportunity: labour markets in transition argue that there has been a structural change in the workforce away from traditional families in which one adult is in full time employment (the concept of the traditional ‘male breadwinner’) while the other (usually female) undertakes domestic, unpaid work in the household.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Human Rights Act
What are human rights? Human rights refer to the basic standards of treatment to which all human beings are entitled. Many of the rights we take for granted are, in fact, human rights – the right to vote, freedom of speech and religion, and protection from discrimination. When human rights are given legal effect they protect people against the actions … more