History The Centre for Policy Development has grown out of the policy development work of online magazine New Matilda. It is
A 2020 vision of a feed in tariff for Australia Voters, consumers and the planet are hungry for renewable energy: Danny Kennedy explains how to feed the renewables industry.
Democracy’s opportunities We undersell democracy. We mistake it for the ritual of writing numbers in a box in reverse order of alienation.
The time of our working lives Huge changes have been taking place in Australians' working lives but public policy is yet to catch up. Brian Howe
The Porter Legacy Governments should take a leaf out of corporate strategy books and remove barriers to competition instead of trying to mandate
Canberra fails to meet the work-family benchmark The Australian Work and Family Policy Roundtable recently released benchmarks for the assessment of policy proposals for improving work and
Genuine Progress? Part Two Last week Nicholas Gruen argued that the Australia Institute’s Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) was systematically biased towards pessimism about our
Turning the tide on democratic decline In the battle of ideas, our faith in democracy has taken too many bullets, writes Lindy Edwards. To resuscitate it,
Tainted money: Proposals for reform of electoral funding in Australia It’s now easier than ever for corporations to donate to political parties, but the return on their investment is more
