Before embarking on programs, structures and funding, we need to be much clearer about the Values and Principles which should underlie new policies.

Critiques of orthodox economics have proliferated in recent times, but often these critiques are not translated into alternative principles for policy-making.

While our health care services are not in terminal decline, they are suffering from some chronic illnesses. Yet successive governments have examined our health care policies and done little more than slap on some sticking-plaster and send the more demanding patients away with a jellybean.

The CPD's work tackles the inefficiency, inequity and needless complexity of our health system. We provide a platform for experts, stakeholders and citizens to share information and develop ideas to resuscitate Australia's ailing health policies.

CPD's work in this area is dedicated to ensuring that an education of quality is available to all Australians.

Reforms that tinker at the edge of ‘business as usual’ will not be enough to ensure our environment’s capacity to support current and future generations. The Centre for Policy Development is calling for ideas on how we can move beyond our current impasse and learn to live on the environment's income rather than its capital.

Here you will find articles on issues ranging from industrial relations, wages and the labour market.

A century ago Australians got their news from twenty-one metropolitan dailies owned by seventeen publishers.
Today, there are ten dailies owned by two publishers and two that are independent. And, while there is a diversity of media sources now, the fact remains that ownership of Australian mainstream media is close to the most highly convergent on the planet.

The best-designed policy in the world is meaningless without a healthy democracy. In this section we explore ways of breathing some life back into the democratic process.

The Australia and the world section will look at Australia's foreign, defence and security policy with a long term, strategic focus, something which has been missing from recent policy debates in this area.

Policy announcements put to the test by the CPD