In a CEDA report published in July 1986 called Expenditure Management, participants of the Strategic Issues Forum assessed the management of public expenditure in Australia.
The debate around the sustainability of Australia’s budget is hardly new. Expenditure Management highlights concerns around the level of government expenditure and the impact of budget deficits on economic activity.
Read pages 2 - 17 of Strategic Issues Forum: Expenditure Management
The report from 1986, The Role of the State and Individual Responsibility examines the welfare state and how to obtain and maintain a budget surplus. The report calls for greater review and scrutiny of the scale of welfare program spending.
Read pages 5 - 17 of Strategic Issues Forum: The Role of the State and Individual Responsibility
Energy and climate policy continue to dominate the national policy agenda. As critical economic issues for Australia, they demand clear, non-partisan ideas and policy solutions.
Read more Agribusiness October 30, 2012Watch videos from the Australian Water Project, Volume 2, The opportunity of crisis: A water reform agenda. This reform agenda was released in October 2012.
Read more Agribusiness November 29, 1988In 1988 CEDA issued a paper on Postal Services in Australia which discussed the regulatory framework and the social and economic effects of regulating postal services.
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