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Withholding Dividends: Better ways to make the public sector efficient

Alexander Philipatos · May 29, 2014 · T30.10

As the commission of audit has uncovered, the government must make significant cuts to spending to get the budget back …
Submission to the National Commission of Audit

Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham AOM, Jeremy Sammut, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan , Stephen Kirchner, Trisha Jha · April 1, 2014 · T30.08

The federal government’s Commission of Audit (CoA) was established in 2013 to review the performance and role of government. This …
Emergency Budget Repair Kit

Simon Cowan , Robert Carling, Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham AOM, Trisha Jha , Jeremy Sammut · November 22, 2013

The August 2013 Economic Statement estimates that the Underlying Cash Balance for the 2013–14 Budget will be a deficit of …
Emergency Budget Repair Kit

Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham AOM, Jeremy Sammut, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan , Trisha Jha · November 21, 2013 · T30.05

The new Abbott government should address its self-identified budget emergency by cutting wasteful spending now. Reducing government will also help …
Relics of a Byzantine IR System: Why Awards Should Be Abolished

Alexander Philipatos · May 23, 2013 · IA140

Howard’s Work Choices reforms were seen by many as the enemy of the Aussie ‘fair go.’ Since then, the spectre …
Back to the Bad Old Days? Industrial Relations Reform in Australia

Alexander Philipatos · December 6, 2012 · PM133

Since the Labor Government replaced WorkChoices with the Fair Work Act, many business leaders have complained that the new legislation …
Free-Trade Ferries: A Case for Competition

Alexander Philipatos · October 27, 2011 · IA127

Sydney needs a network of ferries that is able to cater to the city’s changing demographics but is also financially …

Youth woes are structural
Alexander Philipatos · July 11, 2014

Much has been made of lacklustre employment levels for our youth. Last month, for example, then Telstra chairwoman Catherine Livingstone …
Apply Adam Smith to dentistry to keep cavities away
Alexander Philipatos · June 27, 2014

Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations, ‘people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and …
Cutting penalty rates: who benefits?
Alexander Philipatos · June 13, 2014

The debate over whether to reduce or abolish penalty rates is often couched in the opposing interests of two groups …
Cut spending by cutting government
Alexander Philipatos · May 30, 2014

Plans to double the efficiency dividend from 1.25% to 2.25% indicate the government is lazy about designing public service cutbacks. …
Canberra should do less, but do what it does well
Alexander Philipatos · May 29, 2014

In his first budget, Joe Hockey cut more than 200 spending initiatives and abolished or merged more than 70 government …
Penalty rates cut will give youth a chance to find jobs
Alexander Philipatos · May 21, 2014

With unemployment for 15-year-olds to 24-year-olds more than double the national average, at 12.9 per cent, young people simply need more …
The bright side of non-competitive IR federalism
Alexander Philipatos · April 24, 2014

Classical liberals favour competitive federalism over national laws because competition between jurisdictions makes it harder for government to grow. If …
No easy fix for youth unemployment
Alexander Philipatos · April 22, 2014

A recent report from the Brotherhood of St Lawrence points to a trebling of long-term youth unemployment since the global …
Nothing to stop young workers being paid above minimum
Alexander Philipatos · April 4, 2014

The Fair Work Commission’s decision to lift the youth wage by 25 per cent for 20-year-old retail workers to the …
Minimum wage facts and myths
Alexander Philipatos · March 28, 2014

This year's review of minimum wages has generated the usual ambit claims from the union movement. ACTU secretary Dave Oliver …

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