Maxine McKew’s speech at More Than Luck launch

Maxine McKew joined John Hewson, CPD founder John Menadue and CPD’s Director Miriam Lyons on 26November to help launch our first book, More Than Luck: Ideas Australia needs now. Here are Maxine’s reflections on the night and how she sees More Than Luck can point the way out of the current political quagmire: Good evening everyone. As you can see I’ve been let out of rehab tonight – but my counsellors were encouraging. Go off … more

John Menadue’s comments launching More Than Luck: Ideas Australia needs now

I could rest my case by saying that after the last federal election, it is more obvious than ever before that we need more than luck. We need good policies.  Perhaps the deal on the NBN is a harbinger of better things to come! Ross Gittins described the failure of the government as ‘a lack of values, a lack of courage and a lack of skill in managing its relations with the electorate’. I can’t … more

Ideas From Our Book – More Than Luck

We live in times when the need for a politics of conviction, values and credibility has never been more urgent – yet our political leaders don’t seem to be up to the challenge. In the lead up to the 2010 election, CPD gathered together 25 Australian thinkers to come up with policy ideas to fill the void left by populist electioneering. We decided to fight the politics of fear with positive visions of the future, … more