Peter Saunders suggests the federal government’s Future Fund should be denationalised and the money distributed into individual savings accounts for all Australians. Saunders disputes the government’s claim that we need a Future Fund to pay for public servants' superannuation. A much more pressing problem for the future is the escalation in the cost of age...

This report says we should welcome the gradual erosion of the mass welfare state by the move to self-funded benefits and services. Peter Saunders identifies strong economic arguments in favour of self-funding: it is more efficient, it strengthens incentives and it helps reduce the mounting pressure on government age pension and health budgets caused by...

A recent St Vincent de Paul Society report claimed income inequality in Australia is dramatically widening. Peter Saunders suggested the report was grossly exaggerated. The authors of the report responded by telling the CIS to take a Bex and have a lie down. But Saunders argues that his critique, outlined in this report, still stands.

The St Vincent de Paul Society's recent paper, The Reality of Income Inequality in Australia, warns of Australia's 'current headlong dash into the chasm of inequality'. In his response Peter Saunders shows this claim is grossly exaggerated. The Vinnies' report argues that there has been 'a very significant shift to greater inequality' of disposable incomes...

Peter Saunders analyses how the welfare state might be transformed to give ordinary people more control over key areas of their lives which are currently managed for them by the government. Saunders demonstates that, to a large extent, we no longer need the welfare state. Most people could afford to buy most of the services...