Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: A New Reform Agenda for Australia

Hard Heads, Soft Hearts

This book is based upon the April 2002 Economic and Social Outlook Conference, Towards Opportunity and Prosperity.
It summarises the results of the conference and outlines the hard-headed but soft-hearted reform agenda that emerged. The book draws on contributions from a wide range of leading thinkers.
Topics covered include: unemployment, joblessness and welfare reform; education and innovation; population policy; work and family; ageing and retirement; health policy; the environment and the Kyoto Protocol; are we becoming a branch office economy?; and microeconomic reform.

Eds: Peter Dawkins and Paul Kelly

2003, 248 pages, ISBN 1 74114 021 8

 

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Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction and Background

  • Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: Introduction
  • Australia's Economic, Social and Environmental Performance: Stocktake and Outlook
  • The Australian Economy: Past, Present and Future
  • Globalisation: World Trade, Living Standards and Inequality

Part 2: The New Reform Agenda

  • Unemployment, Joblessness and Welfare Reform
  • Education and Innovation
  • Population Policy
  • Work and Family
  • Ageing and Retirement
  • Health Policy
  • The Environment and the Kyoto Protocol
  • Are We Becoming a Branch Office Economy? Taxation, Merger Law and Population Growth
  • Microeconomic Reform

Part 3: The Way Forward

  • The Way Forward: The Editors' View