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Centre For Independent Studies

Type: Organization

Name: Centre For Independent Studies

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Manufacturing

It's time to put the break on corporate welfare

We have a moral obligation to assist displaced workers and communities, but corporate welfare for a favoured few - like Australia's car manufacturers - can not be justified, argues Simon Cowan.The shock announcement that Ford is set to close its Australian ... [Published ABC Online - May 23 2013]

Entities: Australia, Social Welfare, Manufacturing

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Subsidies kept wobbling wheels rolling

About $10 billion over seven years. That's how much has been pumped into the motor industry by federal and state governments.Now that Ford is closing local manufacturing in 2016, some analysts say it has been throwing good money after bad, but others ... [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 23 2013]

Entities: Ford Motor Company of Australia, Australia, Richard Johns, Centre For Independent Studies, Bob Graziano

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Employment awards should go: think tank

The Centre for Independent Studies advocates the removal of Australia's awards system, which was introduced in 1904. The body contends that sufficient safeguards of workers' pay and conditions are provided by the 10 national employment standards set out ... [Published Individual.com - May 23 2013]

Entities: Centre For Independent Studies, Advocate, Australia

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

ACTU dismisses report on labour reform as call for a return to the 'law of the jungle'

A conservative think tank has called for the abolition of Australia's safety net for pay and conditions, and its replacement with a set of basic minimum standards. The Centre for Independent Studies will release a report on Thursday detailing why the ... [Published Melbourne Age - May 22 2013]

Entities: Dismissal, Australia, Centre For Independent Studies

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

DisabilityCare now a reality but how can we protect its future?

Legend has it that before the introduction of Medibank (now Medicare) in 1974, then-prime minister Gough Whitlam convinced the premiers at a Commonwealth-states meeting to introduce a national disability insurance scheme similar to New Zealand’s comprehensive ... [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 21 2013]

Entities: Disability, Gough Whitlam, Australia

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Opinion: Do our children benefit from NAPLAN tests? Yes

Despite what some would have you believe, there is a story that highlights the success of NAPLAN.I hear it when I visit schools. Most mums and dads like NAPLAN and the information it provides.They now know exactly how their child is tracking in the classroom ... [Published Noodls - May 19 2013]

Entities: NAPLAN, Centre For Independent Studies, Teaching

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

A fair-dinkum levy for the NDIS would be at least 1.5 per?

If the Gillard Government really wants a levy for its unaffordable disability scheme, let it at least be honest: [Opposition Leader Tony] Abbott ... seized on the Productivity Commission?s report into the scheme which said general government revenue should ... [Published Herald Sun - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Centre For Independent Studies, Productivity Commission, Actuary, Australian Government

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Saving Medicare but NOT as we know it

Jeremy Sammut | Centre for Independent Studies (CIS)PDFHigh growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government in coming decades.This report, part of the Centre for Independent Studies' ... [Published Australian Policy Online - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Medicare, Centre For Independent Studies, Big Bang

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Big-bang plan urged for health

An ambitious health spending plan is put forward by policy specialist Jeremy Sammut in a Centre for Independent Studies paper. The plan is intended to ensure that within a decade, government health spending will absorb a maximum of 30 per cent of total ... [Published Scottrade - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Centre For Independent Studies, Medicare

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 3 reports

Push for Medicare cut backs

MEDICARE funding should be split to allow Gen X and Y to save for health needs before the system is scrapped.The Centre for Independent Studies is calling for a complete overhaul of Medicare because it says an ageing population and the rising cost of ... [Published Weekly Times Now - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Medicare, Centre For Independent Studies, Minimum Range

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Reform's hard, rhetoric is not

Treasurer Wayne Swan is critical of conservative think tanks in a paper published by the Chifley Research Centre. Swan claims that the prospect of a Coalition government has the Centre for Independent Studies and the Institute of Public Affairs "frothing ... [Published Individual.com - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Wayne Swan, Centre For Independent Studies, Institute of Public Affairs

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

The Welfare State

Michael McLaren speaks with Benjamin Herscovitch, Policy Analyst at The Centre for Independent Studies, who discusses the dangerous growth of the welfare state. ... [Published 2GB - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Centre For Independent Studies

Quotes

...force and said the State Government must urgently conduct an audit of local automotive parts suppliers to assess the impact of the Ford decision. "We need to understand the reliance from local parts suppliers on supplying Ford and the extent of the impact on these businesses" Mr Marshall said.LOCAL REACTION: More Holden workers likely to seek redundancies

Ford closure - impact on SA [Published Adelaide Now - May 23 2013]

...5 per cent in 1985 to 5 per cent, and that the subsidies "ensured that the industry has gone as far as it has"

Subsidies kept wobbling wheels rolling [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 23 2013]

...Instead of every country and every car having its own platforms, there are fewer and fewer platforms being created," Mr Johns said. "It's not just rationalisation in the sector, it's rationalisation within companies."

Subsidies can't save local cars [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 23 2013]

"It's a call for huge cuts to the wages and conditions, and therefore the living standards of millions of Australians" Ms Kearney said

ACTU dismisses report on labour reform as call for a return to the 'law of the jungle' [Published Melbourne Age - May 22 2013]

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Ford closure - impact on SA [Published Adelaide Now - May 23 2013]
Subsidies kept wobbling wheels rolling [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 23 2013]
Subsidies can't save local cars [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 23 2013]
It's time to put the break on corporate welfare [Published ABC Online - May 23 2013]
Employment awards should go: think tank [Published Individual.com - May 23 2013]
ACTU dismisses report on labour reform as call ... [Published Melbourne Age - May 22 2013]
AMA National Conference 24 - 26 May 2013 [Published Australian Medical Association - May 21 2013]
DisabilityCare now a reality but how can we pro... [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 21 2013]
Opinion: Do our children benefit from NAPLAN te... [Published Noodls - May 19 2013]
Pilger alert! Pilger alert! Pilger alert! [Published Quadrant Online - May 17 2013]
Deeble Institute Symposium: Universal Healthcar... [Published Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association - May 14 2013]
Health funding under the microscope – but what ... [Published Crikey Media - May 10 2013]
The NDIS: where the parties stand [Published ABC Online - May 10 2013]
Give it a rest, Swan - the fair go is going strong [Published ABC Online - May 09 2013]
Is the Coalition offering an alternative Nirvana? [Published Pro Bono Australia - May 09 2013]
More relief for homeowners 'in sight' [Published NEWS.com.au - May 06 2013]
In the Pay of the Piper: Governments, Not-for-P... [Published CommunityNet - May 01 2013]
A fair-dinkum levy for the NDIS would be at lea... [Published Herald Sun - Apr 30 2013]
Scrap bulk-billing, restart co-payments: report [Published 6minutes.net.au - Apr 30 2013]
Saving Medicare but NOT as we know it [Published Australian Policy Online - Apr 30 2013]
Future of the ACNC Under a Federal Coalition [Published Pro Bono Australia - Apr 30 2013]
Time to consider an NDIS levy [Published ABC Online - Apr 30 2013]
Plibersek's Medicare warning [Published Individual.com - Apr 30 2013]
Big-bang plan urged for health [Published Scottrade - Apr 30 2013]
Push for Medicare cut backs [Published Weekly Times Now - Apr 29 2013]
Give Gen X, Y 'New Medicare', think tank says [Published Daily Telegraph Australia - Apr 29 2013]
Cut back Medicare, think tank says [Published WA Today - Apr 29 2013]
Reform's hard, rhetoric is not [Published Individual.com - Apr 29 2013]
The Welfare State [Published 2GB - Apr 27 2013]
Swan defends his comments on the economy [Published Adelaide Now - Apr 27 2013]

Blogs

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Buchanan and market Marxist-Leninism (re-re-post) [Published Crooked Timber - Jan 11 2013] Summer[1] is the best time for reruns. A tweet from Kieran commenting to Matt Yglesias on the work of the late James Buchanan points to this 2003 post , which is itself a rerun of an article published back in the early 1990s. For added nostalgia value, ...