| Description |
xxi, 416 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
15. Taxation reform / Michael Keating -- 16. Future Of federalism / Michael Keating -- 17. Making the federation work better / John Menadue -- 18. Improving employment participation / Michael Keating -- 19. Improved productivity / Michael Keating -- 20. Innovation in Australia / David Charles -- 21. Infrastructure: improvement or impoverishment? / Luke Fraser -- Retirement incomes -- 22. Fair, effective and sustainable retirement income scheme / Andrew Podger -- Population, migration and refugees -- 23. Immigration policy and administration / John Menadue -- 24. Refugee policy / John Menadue -- 25. Settlement policy and services / John Menadue -- Communication and the arts -- 26. Comparative advantage: culture, citizenship and soft power / Julianne Schultz -- 27. Creative arts policy formulation / Kim Williams -- 28. Regulating convergent media: an ongoing policy challenge / Terry Flew -- |
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29. National Broadband Network / Rob Nichols -- Internal security and human rights -- 30. Counter-terrorism and human rights / Spencer Zifcak -- 31. Human rights act for Australia / Susan Ryan -- 32. Dangerous politics of national security / Michael Wesley -- Health -- 33. Health policy reform: part one: why reform is needed? / John Menadue -- 34. Health policy reform: part two: why reform is difficult. Health ministers are in office but in power / John Menadue -- 35. Health policy reform: part three: principles for reform / John Menadue -- 36. Australia's health workforce: what needs to be done / John McGinty -- 37. Co-payments in the Australian health system / Jennifer Doggett -- Development of our human capital in the fields of education, science, innovation, research and development -- 38. Smarter Australia / Glenn Withers -- 39. Eroding human capital in our schools / Chris Bonnor -- |
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Democratic renewal -- 1. Vested interests and the subversion of the public interest / John Menadue -- 2. Loss of trust in institutions / John Menadue -- 3. Towards a post-majoritarian policy making structure? / Ian Marsh -- 4. Policy making practice / Ian Marsh -- Role of government -- 5. Importance of values / John Menadue -- 6. Role and responsibility of government / Michael Keating -- 7. Australia to the 1980s: government at commanding heights / Ian McAuley -- Foreign policy -- 8. Security in the region / Stephen Fitzgerald -- 9. Australian foreign policy / Cavan Hogue -- 10. Independent Australian foreign policy / Richard Butler -- 11. What Australia's foreign policy should look like? / Stuart Harris -- 12. Foreign policy: Australia, the United States and Asia / John McCarthy -- Economy -- 13. Fixing the budget: part one / Michael Keating -- 14. Fixing the budget: part two / Michael Keating -- |
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Environment and climate change -- 40. Australia's climate change policy / Ross Garnaut -- 41. Healthy environment and a productive economy / Peter Cosier -- 42. Policy approach to climate change / Jon Standford -- 43. Green vision for brown country / Brendan Mackey -- Indigenous affairs -- 44. Challenge of providing fairness, opportunity and security for Indigenous Australians / Fred Chaney -- 45. What is needed to fix Indigenous Aboriginal health? / Michael Gracey -- Welfare and families -- 46. Australia's 'welfare system': family assistance and tax elements / Andrew Podger -- 47. Inequality and Australia's welfare system / Peter Whiteford -- 48. Inequality matters / Ian McAuley |
| Summary |
"The forty-eight articles from thirty-one contributors cover fifteen subject areas. In the absence of political leadership, as Ken Henry points out in his opening comments, our problem may not be so much complacency about the need for future reforms as a public lack of awareness about the challenges that we face. Accordingly our hope is that this book will raise public awareness and act as a catalyst for further public discussion of what we see as the most important issues facing Australia at this time. The selection of articles covers what we see as the key policy challenges for the future. They reflect the views of independent commentators who are experts in their field and able to draw on the available evidence to support their arguments. In the present policy vacuum we consider it is only by this type of informed public discussion that sufficient consensus will emerge to encourage the political parties to embrace a proper reform agenda."--Publisher website |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Also issued in digital formats |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also published electronically |
| Subject |
Policy sciences -- Australia.
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Political planning.
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Political science -- Australia.
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Politics, Practical -- Social aspects.
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Political planning -- Australia.
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Social planning -- Australia.
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Social policy.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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Australia -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100478
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| Author |
Keating, Michael, 1940- editor
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Menadue, John, 1935- editor
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| LC no. |
2015513983 |
| ISBN |
9781925309089 |
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9781925309096 |
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