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Address by the Prime Minister
29 April 2013
Thank you to those who attended our Reform Agenda Series forum with Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Canberra.
Below is the full text of... 
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| | Reform Agenda Series:
Welfare to Work: Policy lessons from the UK
21 March 2013
Thank you to everyone who joined our Reform Agenda Series public forum in Melbourne featuring guest speaker Professor Dan Finn, Professor of Social...
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The Future of the Left in Australia: Embracing social liberalism?, with Andrew Leigh MP
5 December 2012
Thank you to everyone who joined our Reform Agenda Series public forum in Melbourne featuring guest speaker Andrew Leigh MP, Member for...
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| | The IR debate lacks rigour, logic, fact and integrity, 23 October 2012
REFLECTIONS ON THE IR DEBATE
In the last 20 years, industrial relations has regularly been the subject of intense political scrutiny and...
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| | Tim Soutphommasane - Don't Go Back to Where You Came From: why multiculturalism works, 27 September 2012
For many, multiculturalism has come to mean a flawed approach to integrating migrants. But has it been a failure? Political philosopher and...
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| | Roundtable Forum: The Euro - Future Indefinite, 11 September 2012
"The Euro - Future Indefinite"
This forum will be the 21st in the "Round Table" series of forums held at New South Wales Parliament House since...
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| | Policy Forum on Welfare, Morality and Politics, 21 August 2012
Thoughtbroker presents:
A Policy Forum on Welfare, Morality and Politics
With:
David Hetherington, Executive Director of Per...
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| | Reform Agenda Series:
Super Directions, 7 June 2012
On Thursday 7 June 2012, Per Capita hosted the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, the Hon. Bill Shorten MP, at a Reform Agenda...
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| | Reform Agenda Series:
Towards a Budget Surplus, 27 April 2012
Thank you to everyone who attended our Pre-Budget Forum in Sydney.
The Minister outlined the Government’s case for returning the budget surplus,...
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| | Reform Agenda Series:
Post-Budget Address with Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan, 17 May 2012
Thank you to all those who joined us in Adelaide for the Treasurer's Post-Budget Address.
Describing Per Capita as "a beacon of...
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| | Politics in the Hall, 3-4 December 2011
Politics in the Hall
Panel discussion: New forms of regulation in the modern market economy.
The panel will consist of:
David Hetherington,...
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| | Must-Read Histories, 29 November 2011
On 29 November 2011, the Wheeler Centre hosted Must-Read Histories, marking the launch of a new website, History Speaks. Fully searchable and...
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| | Quality at Work Forum, 24 November 2011
Quality at Work Forum: Creating Sustainable Employment through social enterprise models
Hosted by Social Traders and Social Firms Australia...
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| | Australian Engagement With Asia: A Patriotic Perspective
Speech by Tim Soutphommasane at the Griffith Asia Institute, Brisbane, 10 November 2011
Full text below, or listen to the full speech by...
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| | Is Social Democracy Exhausted, 17-18 February 2012
Hosted by Flinders University
This is a two day conference reflecting on the future of social democratic politics and policy.
Keynote speakers:...
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| | Battle of the Think Tanks, 12 November 2011
Thoughtbroker presents:
THE BATTLE OF THE THINK TANKS
Australia's most prolific and influential think tanks will duke it out over whose...
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| | The Reform Agenda Series:
A Conversation with the PM, 4 August 2011
Thoughtbroker presents:
THE BATTLE OF THE THINK TANKS
Australia's most prolific and influential think tanks will duke it out over whose
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| | Treasurer's Post-Budget Address and luncheon, 17 May 2011
Thoughtbroker presents:
THE BATTLE OF THE THINK TANKS
Australia's most prolific and influential think tanks will duke it out over whose
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| | Public forum with Senator Penny Wong, George Megalogenis and John Freebairn, Melbourne, 3 May 2011
Thank you to all those who attended the public forum at the Melbourne Town Hall on 3 May.
Our guest speaker, Senator Penny Wong, outlined why...
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| | Tim Soutphommosane at the Wheeler Centre
The Pleasures of Hate Mail
What: Lunchbox/Soapbox is a simple idea: an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, in the...
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| | All That's Left: What Labor Should Stand For, 9 December 2010
All That's Left: A lively Panel Discussion
Panel Speakers:
David Hetherington (Per Capita),
Professor Geoff Gallop (University of...
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| | Book launch: 'All That's Left - What Labor Should Stand For', 2 November 2010
The Hon Greg Combet, Minister for Climate Change, launched All That's Left: What Labour Should Stand For' at NSW Parliament on Tuesday 2 November.
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| | Is Right the New Left?, 2 October 2010
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Isn’t it refreshing that we come here today to discuss the lofty battle of left versus right. Because –...
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| | An Address by the Prime Minister, Adelaide, 12 July 2010
The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister of Australia, addressed the Per Capita Circle in Adelaide on Monday 12 July 2010. In her speech, the Prime...
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| | The Ethics of Climate Change, 11 June 2010
As part of the 2010 Alfred Deakin Lecture series, Tim Soutphommasane looks at how Australia can build a sustainable future.
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| | Dimensions of Power, 31 May 2010
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It’s a privilege to be here at the pre-eminent event for the community sector in Australia, and I’m particularly...
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| | Policy Exchange 2009: Policymaking for the Long Term, Canberra, 20-21 October 2009
Policy Exchange 2009, Per Capita’s annual policy conference, took place in Canberra on 20-21 October.
The two-day conference included 15...
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| | Politics and the Brain: How neuroscience can improve our body politic, 31 July 2009
Featured speakers:
- The Hon Lindsay Tanner MP, Finance Minister
- Neil Lawrence, Executive Creative Director, STW
- Annabel Crabb, Sydney...
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| | Public Perceptions: Making the connection between tax, investment and return, 7 July 2009
Building public support for meaningful policy reform is one of democracy’s biggest challenges. Nowhere is this harder than in taxation.
Tax...
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| | Promoting Good Choices – A Per Capita policy seminar, 13 May 2009
On 13 May Per Capita hosted a half-day seminar jointly with Adpartners in Sydney. The event was the first in a series on “politics and the brain,”...
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| | Crunch Time: Australia's Policy Future, 22-23 April 2009
Australia’s leading progressive think tanks, including Per Capita, are convening a major policy conference in Sydney on 22-23 April. The event,...
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| | Policy Exchange, Brisbane, 30-31 October 2008
Policy Exchange 2008, Per Capita’s annual policy conference, took place at Queensland Parliament House in Brisbane on 30-31 October.
The Federal...
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| | A Short History of Progress - Lunch with Ronald Wright, 22 September 2008
At Carlton's Lincoln Hotel on 22 September, the Per Capita circle had lunch with Ronald Wright, bestselling author of What is America (2008)...
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| | A New Direction for UK Foreign Policy – Lunch with Meg Munn, 8 May 2008
On Thursday 8th May in Sydney, Per Capita hosted a lunchtime discussion with Meg Munn, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the UK Foreign and...
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| | Summit Report II: The Australia 2020 Summit, Canberra, 19-20 April 2008
The paintings in the National Portrait Gallery have come off the walls, found themselves a drink and are standing around talking about ideas. The...
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| | Summit Report I: The Progressive Governance Summit, London, 4-5 April 2008
It’s not often you get 13 heads of government in a room with the bosses of the WTO, the IMF and African Development Bank, the UN High Commissioner...
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| | Lessons from the 2007 Election - Lunch with Nick Reece, 18 March 2008
On Tuesday 18 March, Per Capita and the Trawalla Foundation hosted a lunchtime discussion with Nick Reece, Head of Policy and Strategy to Victorian...
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| | Deeper in Debt - Lunch with Steve Keen, 14 March 2008
On 14 March, the Boston Consulting Group hosted the Per Capita circle for lunch with Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics, to discuss his...
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| | Renewing the Social Democratic Narrative - A chat with Will Hutton, 30 October 2007
Per Capita:
Gordon Brown has now been Premier for some months. Do you think he has been able to begin establishing a new narrative, or developing...
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| | Driving a Decade of Reform - Lunch with Alan Milburn, 6 September 2007
On Thursday 6 September, Per Capita hosted the Rt Hon Alan Milburn MP, former UK Secretary of State for Health and Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
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| | The Price of Progress - Lunch with Thomas Homer-Dixon, 31 August 2007
In Melbourne on Friday 31 August the Per Capita circle had lunch with Thomas Homer-Dixon. We were joined by our friends from Futureye...
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| | Prosperity and Fairness - An evening with Andrew Charlton, 30 August 2007
On 30 August, Per Capita was joined by Andrew Charlton at the Hero of Waterloo in Sydney to discuss his latest book, Ozonomics. Andrew is a...
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| | Inequality and Populism - A chat with Will Marshall, 24 August 2007
In the first of our 'six questions' series of interviews with leading progressive thinkers, Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute,...
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| | The Politics of Climate Change – Drinks with Nick Rowley, 2 August 2007
On 2 August, Per Capita was joined for drinks by Nick Rowley, director of Kinesis and former senior adviser to Tony Blair, in the Stone Room at...
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| | Values in Foreign Policy - An evening with Walter Russell Mead and Peter Hartcher, 2 July 2007
On 2 July the Per Capita circle was joined in conversation by Walter Russell Mead, Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow at the US Council of Foreign...
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| | Ideas and Decisions - Dinner with John McTernan, 29 May 2007
The Per Capita circle was joined for dinner on 29 May by John McTernan, Director of Political Operations at No 10 Downing...
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| | Public forum with Senator Penny Wong, George Megalogenis and John Freebairn, Melbourne, 3 May 2011
Please join us for a public forum, with guest speaker Senator the Hon. Penny Wong, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, and panel members...
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| | The Reform Agenda Series
Please join us for a public forum, with guest speaker Senator the Hon. Penny Wong, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, and panel members
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