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The Fraught Politics of Saying Sorry for Forced Adoption: Implications for Child Protection Policy in Australia
Jeremy Sammut

Many Australians will believe a national apology for forced adoption is overdue. But there is a danger that the apology will deligitimise the use of adoption for child protection purposes and make it more difficult for the community to effectively address child abuse and family dysfunction.

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TARGET30: Tax-Welfare Churn in the Australian Welfare State
Andrew Baker

CIS Policy Analyst Andrew Baker will outline the nature of tax-welfare churn in Australia and provide a number of pragmatic reforms aimed at reducing the size and scope of our inflated welfare state.

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TARGET30 – Towards Smaller Government and Future Prosperity
Author: Simon Cowan
Contributors: Andrew Baker, Jennifer Buckingham, Robert Carling, Stephen Kirchner, Peter Kurti, Jeremy Sammut and Peter Saunders

'SNAPSHOT' OF LAUNCH PAPER

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LIBERTY AND SOCIETY STUDENT CONFERENCE APRIL 5-7

A group of 31 young people learnt, discussed and argued about the foundational ideas of liberty and freedom. They hit the jackpot on Friday night with Ayaan Hirsi Ali joining us for the opening dinner.

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