In this policy monograph Policy Analyst Sara Hudson argues that it is time to abandon the misguided notion that CDEP ‘helps’ Indigenous people and acknowledge that CDEP masks the real level of Indigenous unemployment and hides the crisis in Indigenous education. “If the government wants to break the cycle of joblessness, welfare dependence, and its...

The Rudd government has based its $220 million GP Super Clinics and preventive health policy on the prevailing assumption that more spending on preventive care will tackle obesity, lower chronic disease rates, and reduce health costs. 'But,' Sammut says, 'GP Super Clinics threaten to accentuate, not alleviate, Medicare's unsustainabilty.'

KiwiSaver represents a fundamental change to New Zealand’s retirement system, which now combines one of the most generous pensions in the world with a heavily subsidised saving scheme. It represents a major shift in how people allocate money over their lives. It is a pointless and expensive straitjacket on the New Zealand economy. The incentives...

This is the first of a pair of policy monographs. The monographs examine the evidence base and assumptions of four key health policy areas.

With the numeracy and literacy skills of five-year-olds, ten thousand indigenous teenagers and young men and women are unemployable because of the educational failures of the last decade.