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IQ2 Fair go debates 2013

St James Ethics Centre ‘Australia is still the land of the ‘fair go” IQ2Oz debate | Sydney, 12 Sept

Symbolised in the Eureka Flag that flew over the stockade, the Australian ideal of a ‘fair go’ for all was supposed to overturn older ideas of class and privilege. Has this ideal withered over...

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Getting good Pushing our luck ideas to Canberra!

Visit the Pushing our luck page on StartSomeGood – http://startsomegood.com/pushingourluck Help yourself to some great reward packages, and help CPD to ‘start some good’ with our UPCOMING BOOK… CPD wants to help inform the debate during the...

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D!ssent | Number 42, Spring 2013

‘A new approach to health funding’  by CPD fellows and Pushing our luck authors Jennifer Doggett and Ian McAuley… In this article, Jennifer and Ian find health care funding to be one of few...

Sunshinecoastdaily

APN Group newspapers | 5 August 2013

CPD reaches coastal areas most at risk. ‘Public sector cuts are killing the country’ Death by a thousand cuts examines how blind, across-the-board cuts can have detrimental effects on productivity. Authors Christopher Stone, CPD research...

WAtoday

WA today | 6 August 2013

A blunt instrument unveiled, CPD is on the ball. Across-the-board cuts made blindly are not the kind of tactic that improves productivity. Rising to 2.25 per cent the inflated efficiency dividend as announced in...

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ABC News | 5 August 2013

Regional areas struggle the most from budget cuts. Christopher Stone, CPD research director, and Kathy MacDermott, industrial relations policy expert,  released Death by a thousand cuts: How governments undermine their own productivity which outlines how public...

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The Canberra Times | 6 August 2013

Budget cuts don’t equal productivity… Public sector union halts Labor support, Ross Peake reports. As the government plans to cut another $1.8 billion from the public service budget the public sector union will continue...

Professional Day

NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association | Parramatta, 7 August

Just Health? Politics and Ethics in Australian Health Care Professional Day at the 2013 NSWNMA annual conference CPD Research Director Christopher Stone will speak at this year’s Professional Day on his report Decoding efficiency, which looks at how...

Ian McAuley

Inside Story | 12 July 2013

Do we need private health insurance? The most efficient and fairest option is a single national insurer. Ian McAuley, CPDfellow and Adjunct Lecturer in public sector finance at the University of Canberra, discusses the relevance...

TDSA

TDSA Biennial Conference 2013 | Brisbane, 24 & 25 July

What’s driving your future? Not-for-Profits – Survive or Perish. The Transport Development & Solutions Alliance upcoming conference will be focusing on the future of NFP organisations. Christopher Stone, CPD’s research director, will deliver his...