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CEDA's Growth series provide comprehensive pictures of the biggest public policy issues affecting Australia's development. CEDA works with members and independent researchers to produce the reports.

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• Growth 61: A Taxing Debate - Climate policy beyond Copenhagen
  CEDA's latest report aims to advance the development of sensible and measured policy responses to the risk of climate change. A carbon tax may not be the policy of choice now, but the ETS bubble may burst and the world may - in the not too distant future - be looking for a viable "Plan B" to replace the problematic cap-and-trade system.
• Growth 60: Australia's Broadband Future - Four doors to greater competition
  Australia's Broadband Future: Four doors to greater competition focuses on the current Australian broadband debate. How do we deliver the best information services to customers in different situations across the country?
• Growth 59: Climate Change - Getting it Right
  CEDA's Climate Change - Getting it Right report promotes a risk management approach to climate change - achieving reductions in emissions through markets, carbon pricing and investment in low emissions technologies, while preserving economic growth.
• Growth 58: Competing From Australia
  This big-picture CEDA research collection looks at Australia's place in the globalising world economy of the early 21st century. One key conclusion: distance is not dead as a challenge for Australia.
• Growth 57: The Business of Defence - Sustaining Capability
  This major CEDA report finds that more transparency in relationships between the Australian Defence Force and the businesses that supply it will produce better strategic and economic outcomes.
• Growth 56: Lifelong Learning
  Australia's ageing population heightens the need for new ways to keep growing the workforce skills of older workers.
• Growth 55: China in Australia's Future
  The case for greater engagement with the world's fastest growing economy
• Growth 54: Infrastructure - Getting on with the job
  This much-referenced CEDA report looks at how Australia's hard infrastructure - roads, railways, telecommunications, electric power, sea and air ports - is struggling to cope with the demands of today's economy.
• Growth 53: Innovating Australia
  Global innovation experts analyse the weaknesses of Australia's innovation system, the potential of IT and telecommunications and the future for industries such as biotechnology.
• Growth 52: Water and the Australian economy
  Australia needs to make tough policy choices if we are to balance economic, environmental and social needs.
• Growth 51: Australia's Ageing Population
  The balance between public and private provision of services will assume greater prominence as Australia's population ages.
• Growth 50: Privatisation: A Review of the Australian Experience
  Privatisation is about designing an optimal mix of ownership and regulation to achieve the best outcomes for society. Private ownership with regulation is one option. In other cases, government ownership may better achieve society's objectives.
• Growth 49: Future Directions in Australian Social Policy
  Shifts in working life, household relations and the economy mean new generations face a very different life to their predecessors; social policy needs to respond.
• Growth 48: Reshaping Australian Social Policy: Changes in Work, Welfare and Families
  Economic shifts mean governments need to change the way they approach the redistribution of income.
• Growth 47: Immigration and multiculturalism
  Australia can and should pursue immigration as a crucial source of economic advantage and cultural stimulus.