Why our teachers are not top of the class
CPD fellow does the arithmetic on why schools are falling behind Australia flags in OECD International Student Assessment rankings Teachers in Shanghai and Korea spend significantly less class time with their students than their...
Caroline Hoisington | Canberra Times, 15 September 2012
CPD fellow makes a convincing economic case against the supertrawler FV Margiris and other ‘floating factories’ While arguments against the unsustainable fishing operations of supertrawlers like the Margiris have, predictably, been based on environmental...
Verona Burgess | Australian Financial Review, 7 September
State governments did better Verona Burgess has presaged an upcoming paper by CPD fellow Tim Roxburgh which analyses lessons which should have been learnt from the Building the Education Revolution program. In his paper,...
Carmen Lawrence and Chris Bonnor | Education gap widening between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’
CPD fellows examine the ‘invisible backpack’ phenomenon School children struggle to carry the weight of disadvantage Statistics compiled for the Gonski Review of Funding for Schools have revealed stark inequities in the Australian school...
Ian McAuley | New Matilda, 10 Sept
We Have A Tax Problem, Not A Debt Problem After the Bureau of Statistics released a range of data at the beginning of September, CPD fellow Ian McAuley, ‘rummaged’ through it to present a...
Pavan Sukhdev | Book Launch | Melbourne, 4 December 2012
Corporation 2020: Transforming business for tomorrow’s world Download ‘Corporation 2020’ backgrounder Economist Pavan Sukhdev, a leading strategist in sustainable practice, returns to Australia to share his vision of a global green economy as explored in his...
Marine Reserves Reality Check | The Cairns Post, 10 September 2012
Marine park cost claims ‘dubious’ Marine Reserves Reality Check, by CPD’s Marine Economy fellow Caroline Hoisington, was featured in The Cairns Post on its day of release. Although the reporter initially misquoted some key...
Caroline Hoisington | The Toowoomba Chronicle, 12 September 2012
CPD Fellow counters overblown industry claims with hard facts Recent claims made about the potential loss of 9700 jobs among recreational and commercial fishers, as a result of the government’s marine park plan, have...
John Menadue and Arja Keski-Nummi | The Drum Unleashed, 29 August 2012
Seismic shift in asylum policy exposes ghosts of intolerance CPD Fellows ask how to best implement the imperfect set of solutions that is the Houston report While the government has acted wisely in its...
Jennifer Doggett & Ian McAuley | Mending patchwork reform for dental health
CPD Fellows argue for more inclusive, comprehensive dental reform to cover the most vulnerable While the government’s $4bn dental health reform package has the potential to reduce waiting lists and encourage early intervention, it...