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Miriam Lyons on ABC1's Q and A with Tony Jones

CPD Director Miriam Lyons will take her place on the Q and A panel next Thursday 3 July from 9:30pm on ABC1.


CPD submission to the NHHRC

In response to their call for submissions on its Draft Principles for Australia's Health System and on its Terms of Reference, the Centre for Policy Development offered the NHHRC comments based on our own research and publications in the area of health policy reform.


Ian McAuley examines the Australian economy for the Australian Collaboration

CDP fellow Ian McAuley surveys Australia's economic structure, including an outline of some long-term and medium-term challenges for Australian economic policy in his Australian Economic Fact Sheet for the

The Australia 2020 Summit: dead end or path to the future?

Mike Salvaris explores the role that the 2020 summit might play in defining and developing a genuine national vision.


Participatory Governance and the Indigenous Agenda: From Rhetoric to Reality

Tackling Indigenous disadvantage will require a patient approach to building relationships and a strong commitment to sharing decision-making power, writes CPD fellow Meredith Edwards.


Budget submission 2008/09

In response to Treasurer Wayne Swan's invitation to submit ideas for the new Government's first budget, CPD members Ian McAuley, Ben Eltham, John Menadue, and Miriam Lyons prepared a submission based on the Centre's research and ideas.


CPD Road Test: Mersey Hospital Takeover

With so many design faults, the Mersey Hospital takeover will have engine failure before it leaves the garage, write Jennifer Doggett and Edwina Burns.


CPD health fact sheets

We have prepared 5 simple fact sheets to outline where health policy is currently at - and where the major parties are promising to take it after Saturday's election.


CPD Road Test: child care rebate

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


CPD Road Test: schools funding

Labor's pledge to keeping pumping valuable education dollars into the Coalition's wasteful SES funding scheme is bad policy, writes Lyndsay Connors.


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