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Eva Cox

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Eva Cox was until recently Program Director, Social Inquiry at the University of Technology Sydney, and is the national Chair of the Women's Electoral Lobby. She is a Centre for Policy Development fellow.

Eva Cox's contributions:

A Rather Too Conservative First Year

CPD fellow Eva Cox assesses the Rudd Government's performance on Indigenous issues, income support, child care and parental leave: Rudd has apologised to the Stolen Generation, signed Kyoto and fixed some of the worst conditions for asylum seekers. These actions seemed to suggest a serious change in political directions, but other signs show he is leading a government designed to avoid scaring off the Howard voters. This is worrying as the social agenda of the government could be defined as a more modern form of social conservativism, with some residual neo-liberal tendencies. It lacks the fire and imagination that would challenge some of the retrograde social assumptions that drove most of the last government’s policies.


The Rudd Christmas Bonus: Populism or evidence based policy?

Eva Cox outlines her response to the Rudd Government's announcement of a $4.8 billion dollar pension relief package which was announced as part of the October 14 2008 recession bailout. The Rudd Government claims to be pursuing evidence based policy but this is not obvious in much of what it is doing, says Eva. Rather, it often seems to display levels of cynical populism, especially with this payout.


Mean tests: middle class welfare or redistributive fairness?

Arguing in favour of universal paid maternity leave, Eva Cox scrutinises means tests and government payments.


CPD Road Test: child care rebate

Eva Cox takes the child care rebate for a spin and finds it wanting.


Canberra fails to meet the work-family benchmark

The Australian Work and Family Policy Roundtable recently released benchmarks for the assessment of policy proposals for improving work and family outcomes in Australia. CPD fellow Eva Cox examines how the major parties’ 2007 election announcements shape up so far.


Making time and taking our time

We save it, spend it, invest it, and waste it, yet we never have enough of it. Time is a finite resource, and we seem to be running out. Political parties who ignore the latest research on what time-poverty is doing to our relationships don't deserve to spend time in government, argues Eva Cox.


Balancing the time budget

Time is the currency of relationships, but the never-ending expansion of our working lives is leading to a social recession. Australia's leading social capital expert Eva Cox argues for policies to help us reclaim our time.


Bronwyn’s no solutions report

Last week’s report on ‘Balancing Work and Family’ fails to address the inadequate supply of children’s services, which is undermining choice and leading to ever-rising costs, writes Eva Cox.


What kind of Australia do we want?

Eva Cox explains what governments can do to appeal to the ‘better angels’ in human nature.


Understanding what the Federal Government means by choice

Choice is out of fashion in Canberra, writes Eva Cox. These days service provision is all about control


Child Care funding - policy proposals for discussion

Eva Cox cuts through the confusion surrounding the child care debate and puts forward a comprehensive set of proposals for funding accessible, affordable, quality child care. By introducing direct funding of child care centres to complement fee relief for parents, governments can help to break the profit-driven cycle of fee hikes and supply shortages in the current system.


Improving the Proposed IR & Welfare Systems for Women

Eva Cox explores some of the problems for women workers under the proposed new IR and welfare laws and proposes avenues for mitigating the damage.


Changing child care policy frameworks

Eva Cox argues that changes in government child care 'policy have encouraged rising fees, poor planning and irresponsibility in spending'. She proposes that 'the government move back to funding centres, not parents, as was done in the early days of the program and as is done with nursing homes'.


Defining the role of the state

Eva Cox explores how the policy development role has changed over the years and identifies a range of issues for policy makers and the community to consider


Dog whistle welfare

Eva Cox writes, 'If the Government were upfront about its reluctance to fund all low income households to stay at home with children, they would not find so much support.'


A social plimsoll line?

When citizens are treated like consumers they become subject to all the risks contained in the old Latin phrase caveat emptor - let the buyer beware, writes Eva Cox.



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