Adaptive Capacity: A tool for economic transition planning
Understanding Adaptive Capacity is a discussion paper from the Centre for Policy Development’s sustainable economy program. It follows previous reports on climate transition risks and challenges for local economies, and forms part of a...
ABC The Drum budget special | 14 May 2013
Miriam Lyons, panellist… CPD’s Executive Director Miriam joined former Liberal leader Dr John Hewson and economic commentators to discuss what has been touted as Wayne Swan’s final budget. The Treasurer Wayne Swan has delivered...
Economics Q&A | Sydney, 6 May
The Economic Society of Australia in conjunction with the School of Economics at the University of Sydney… The event will be in the style of the ABC’s Q&A television program – but with economics-related...
False economies, Part 1: Decoding efficiency | LANDMARK REPORT | February 2013
Translating the jargon on public sector efficiency CPD’s public service Research Director Christopher Stone contends that if we don’t want services to run down, we need to consider results as well as resources when...
Pavan Sukhdev | ABC Big Ideas, March 2013
International economist delivers passionate plea for corporate responsibility Former international banker and ‘green economist’ Pavan Sukhdev was CPD’s guest in Sydney in late 2012, to deliver a seminar on his latest book, Corporation 2020,...
Beyond the Big Society: lessons from the UK | 3 April 2013 | CANCELLED
New Economics Foundation senior researcher Julia Slay: a UK perspective on ‘efficient’ service delivery under a conservative government SADLY, THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED Hosted by Institute of Public Administration (IPAA) Date: 3rd April...
Whatever happened to the Big Society? | OCCASIONAL PAPER | February 2015
Update and epilogue to the 2012 CPD report, Big Society and Australia Whatever happened to the Big Society? | CPD OP25 | C Elliott | Feb 2013 CPD Researcher Cameron Elliot has produced a...
Abbott’s figures don’t add up | New Matilda, 4 Feb 2013
Is it possible to cut company tax, cut the carbon tax, pay out for defence and ‘direct action’ on climate change—and still balance the budget? CPD fellow Ian McAuley analyses the pitfalls of Abbott’s...
Revise ‘failed’ mining tax, former banker says | Sydney Morning Herald, 29 Nov
Peter Hannam interviews Pavan Sukhdev for SMH Business Day Pavan Sukhdev, leading strategist on sustainable economic practice, argues that resource taxation and corporate accountability reform is the future of a sustainable Australian economy. Pavan explains...
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...