Ideas scare people

“When did ideas become such a scary concept?” said Peter van Onselen in The Australian this week. Other commentators have said much the same. The context was the ‘leaking’ of parts of the Commonwealth government’s federalism green paper; not a white paper, not legislation, just some ideas for consideration.

It’s clear we are facing manifest problems in this country.  I don’t wish to rehearse the issues once again as we know what they are.  But it does take some bold thinking to find good solutions.  Well we at CIS are not scared of bold thinking and that’s what our great team of researchers do. And then it’s a matter of communicating these ideas and our small team of communication professionals work at that relentlessly and often at hours that would really scare most of us. Just this week for instance, CIS was in the media 539 times, and then we probably missed some.

With the end of financial year just days away, here’s your chance to back a few more scary ideas to help get this country to go boldly into a prosperous future.  Like the great reform period of the ’80s and ’90s that laid the foundations for one the country’s golden periods, we can do it again.

But it is good ideas that will help drive us there and it is good ideas that CIS is, well, good at.

Click here if you would like to support good ideas, and we thank you for your contribution.