The Centre for Policy Development releases The State of the Australian Public Service: An Alternative Report, as part of our Public Service program. DOWNLOAD the report The State of the Australian Public… more
Publications
James Whelan & Jennifer Doggett | Bean Counting is Compromising our Public Services
Can arbitrary cuts under the guise of efficiency deliver a better public service? James Whelan & Jennifer Doggett take a look at the political and policy failure that is the Efficiency… more
Insight | Budget 2011
CPD authors find a lot of blinkered thinking in the race to a surplus. Here’s what you will find in the Budget 2011 edition of InSight.
Beyond the Blunt Instrument: the Efficiency Dividend and its alternatives | OCCASIONAL PAPER
Efficiency Dividend is inefficient: Danger of waste on the way to a surplus. Download ‘Beyond the Blunt Instrument: The Efficiency Dividend and its alternatives’ Jennifer Doggett’s paper from the Centre for Policy… more
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… 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… 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… more
Australia’s Green Economic Potential | OCCASIONAL PAPAER
Australia’s Green Economic Potential – a CPD Briefing Paper This briefing paper puts some of the issues covered in the United Nations Environment Program’s Green Economy Report in an… more
More than luck: ideas Australia needs now
The Centre for Policy Development published an e-book of good policy ideas for the government that wins the 2010 federal election. The e-book has contributions from CPD fellows and other… more
Cooperation, Community and Climate Change | OCCASIONAL PAPER
Robert Salter argues that better relationships are the key to successful action on climate change.