Shanghai Daily | Report recommends new refugee strategy in Australia
Chinese media source Shanghai Daily covered the release of our report A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Shanghai Daily – Prominent business and union leaders on Monday endorsed a report recommending...
Ben Eltham | There Is A Plot To Destroy The Gillard Government
To win office, the Government will have to perform a Herculean feat – and now the Thomson affair has given the Opposition an extra set of cudgels writes Ben Eltham. The Australian Financial Review’s...
Kerry Murphy | Improving the Refugee Debate
During the week of the tenth anniversary of the Tampa, and following the release of A New Approach, Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Kerry Murphy comments on the pressing need to...
ABC The Drum | ‘Breaking the stalemate on refugees and asylum seekers’
Professor Frank Brennan writes for ABC’s The Drum online reflecting on what he thinks about the vexed state of policy debate on refugees and asylum seekers. We Australians are still all at sea seeking...
Sky News | ‘Report suggests new approach to refugees’
Sky News Online reports on the findings in A New Approach, our suggested policies on refugees & asylum seekers: The report – A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees and Asylum Seekers –...
AAP | ‘Report seeks new approach to refugees’
AAP News journalist Belinda Merhab covered CPD’s report on refugees and asylum seekers, featuring prominent Australian Tuong Quang Luu’s story of fleeing Vietnam. “It was an extremely hazardous and horrible experience,” he said. “It’s...
Malcom Fraser | ‘End the appeal to meanness’
Malcom Fraser’s opinion piece in The Age today, ‘End the appeal to meanness’ echoes the sentiments of our report, A New Approach: Breaking the stalemate on Refugees & Asylum Seekers. Fraser makes clear the...
The Age | ‘Plea for asylum policy rethink’
A New Approach makes the front page of The Age, in a story by Michael Gordon: “Prominent business and union leaders have endorsed a new strategy on asylum seekers that would have mandatory detention...
SURVEY on ‘Big Society’: Tell us what you think
We are moving into a new phase of our Public Service program. As part of this we are researching ‘Big Society’ – a set of public sector reforms that redefine the role of public,...
James Whelan | The Drum
We often hear about ‘trimming the fat’ in the public service but is there enough thought behind this popular phrase? CPD public service program research director Dr. James Whelan joined panellists Tim Wilson, Andrew...