The third Dialogue meeting took place in September 2016. Download key documents below and read on for more about the meeting, including photos. Key documents for the third Dialogue meeting: Participant profiles Full agenda and participant list Briefing papers Supplementary… more
Fellow’s Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepard continue to feature prominently in the ongoing debates on school funding inequities
The analysis of our Fellows Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepard continues to underpin the ongoing debate over the discrepancies in funding levels between Australian public, private and Catholic schools. The opinion and analysis of Chris and Bernie on unfair funding… more
Third meeting of the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration | September 2016
The third Dialogue meeting took place in September 2016. Download key documents below and read on for more about the meeting, including photos. Key documents for the third Dialogue meeting: Participant profiles Full agenda and participant list Briefing papers Supplementary… more
Policy Director Sam Hurley on Radio National ‘Outsiders’
CPD Policy Director Sam gives his take on Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech and her American analogue the Donald on ABC Radio National’s Outsiders with Jonathan Green. Sam joined Eleanor Jackson from Peril Magazine and writer Rebecca Weisser to discuss the… more
Fellows Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepard demonstrate the inconsistencies in school funding in new essay
Following the release of their number crunching report on the unfairness and inequalities of our current school funding system, CPD Fellows Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepard implore education ministers to review the evidence for reform. Bonnor and Shepard once again… more
Fellow Peter Whiteford analyses a new ‘investment approach’ to social services
CPD Fellow Peter Whiteford outlines the intricacies and analyses the calculations behind the Coalition’s tentative entry into the new ‘investment approach’ to funding welfare. Writing for The Conversation, Peter unpacks the “$4.8 trillion dollar question” that was posed by Social… more
Fellow Chris Bonnor comments on more new findings on unfairness in education funding
CPD Fellow Chris Bonnor comments on Fairfax’s recent findings that state schools are scrambling for funding and are increasingly divided by socio-economic status. The contrast between the fees and payments by parents to wealthy and poorer schools in Australia is… more
Fellow Ian McAuley sets out the negatives of neo-liberalism for modern democracies
CPD Fellow Ian McAuley discusses the challenges that will face our new government in an era of instability, due to both domestic politics and macroeconomic forces of globalisation. Writing for New Matilda, Ian explains our current global economic system and… more
Fellow Mark Triffitt reviews the kaleidoscopic nature of our new Parliament
CPD Fellow Mark Triffitt takes a look at the new makeup of the 45th Parliament of Australia and the increasingly insular and predictable nature of federal politics. For The Conversation, Mark describes an uninspiring vision of the coming term of… more
Chairperson Terry Moran talks public service on University of Melbourne podcast
CPD Chairperson Terry Moran was a guest of the University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis on his podcast The Policy Shop. At the centre of the half hour discussion was the difficult question; “Has the public service lost the plot?”.… more