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CEDA publications, reports, essays and articles are a survey of Australian public policy development dating back to the early 1960s.



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Since 1960 CEDA has produced more than 2000 publications, research reports and articles.

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Subjects range from immigration and emigration, South East Asia, tax, infrastructure and labour relations, to more unusual topics such as the challenges of communicating the benefits of privatisation, the first 50 days of Bill Clinton's presidency, and the philosophy of Japanese tourism.

The catalogue includes some prescient works:

  • A major study of Australia's links with South East Asia, published in the 1960s and funded by the Ford Foundation
  • CEDA's first book in 1967, Wages and Productivity, by Professor Joe Isaac
  • Professor Neil Warren's 1976 paper, A Value Added Tax for Australia
  • The Social Responsibility of Corporations - the first major text on one of the biggest issues of today - written in 1976 by PJ Dunstan
  • Professor Ian Marsh's work on the development and role of think-tanks, published in 1980, 1991 and 1995
  • Professor John Niuewenhuysen and Dennis Turner's 1984 study of the impact of mining on aboriginal communities
  • A landmark report by Professor Neville Norman and Katherine Meikle on the economic impact of immigration, published in 1985

Others that preceded policy development include:

  • Australia's Population Structure and Growth, 1965
  • Financing Water Resource Development, 1969
  • Some Aspects of Australia's Two Airline Policy, 1972
  • Fiscal Federalism: Some Problems and Options, 1975
  • Uranium, 1976
  • A Critical Appraisal of Australia's Foreign Exchange Arrangements, 1980
  • The Scope for Privatisation in Australia, 1986
  • Reserve Bank Independence and All That, 1990
  • Australia's Ageing Population: How are we Preparing?, 1991
  • The Environmental Challenge, 1991
  • India: What You Need to Know, 1993