Ian McAuley reviews the Future Business Council’s new report “The next boom: a surprise new hope for Australia’s economy?”
What could be a more reasonable basis for public policy than striking a “balance” between protecting the economy and the environment? Our government must do something about climate change (we don’t want to look...
Is our Westminster system past its use by date? | Thought Starters
A short constitutional quiz: What section of our Constitution defines the role of Cabinet? How does the Constitution define the relationship between Executive Government and the Public Service? Exactly what form of Westminster government...
New Matilda | 12 June 2013
The three lies Labor should attack… In this excellent article, CPD fellow Ian McAuley identifies and unravels statistical conceits, and straightforward deceits underlying three major planks of the Coalition’s policy offering. The Liberal Party’s...
Liberal Party economic policy | New Matilda, 3 Dec 2012
The economic policy Abbott can’t grasp CPD Fellow ponders what credible policies might look like for the Liberal Party Eliminating the carbon tax, (Abbott) claims, will save the budget $4 billion and eliminating the...
What Are We Complaining About? An Analysis of Cost of Living Pressures
Are most Australians really ‘doing it tough’? In response to the widely-held notion that we are all suffering from cost of living pressures, CPD fellow Ian McAuley undertakes a thorough review of the evidence....
John Menadue and Ian McAuley | Govt proposals on private health insurance don’t go far enough
Writing in Crikey, CPD founder and board member John Menadue and CPD fellow Ian McAuley give their opinion on government proposals to apply a means test to private health insurance subsidies. Menadue and McAuley call...
Ian McAuley | PHI: costs for public, private the same, so they should compete for funds
First published in Crikey here. Michael Roff’s defence of private health insurance (PHI) in Friday’s Crikey is an extraordinary statement. For a start, it is hard to understand why he is so concerned to...
Ian McAuley | Debt Ceiling Lifted But Something’s Gotta Give
Obama might have negotiated a way out of the debt ceiling stand-off but the larger problems of the US economy aren’t going to disappear, writes Ian McAuley. First published in New Matilda here. The...
Ian McAuley | A Glimmer of Vision to a Close Horizon
Is the surplus fetish distracting the Government from the real economic challenges? Ian McAuley finds glimpses of Labor values in an otherwise short-sighted budget. In the Budget is a glimmer of traditional...
What, then, is regional policy?
The independents, Oakeshott & Windsor, have everyone talking about rural and regional Australia – Ian McAuley dispels a few myths those of us in metropolitan Australia may be hanging on to. Read Ian’s observations...