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AFR 10th Annual Health Congress: Building a healthcare system around people and their needs

CPD Chair John Menadue and fellow Ian MacAuley will speak at the Australian Financial Review's annual Health Congress held in Sydney on February 27th-29th, 2008.


Let's go hula

Free Hula Hooping lessons


Reality Check - is Australia's economy as healthy as it seems?

Is Australia's economy as healthy as it seems? At the ALP Fringe Conference in 2007 The Centre for Policy Development invited three experts to examine the risk factors: carbon addiction, chronic overwork and a decade-long debt binge.


Beers without borders

Time: 
17 May 2007 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Everyone's favorite drink-tank Beers without Borders is back in Sydney on Thursday May 17.

Time: 6 pm to 9.30pm
Date: 1 March 2007
Location: Upstairs at the Edinburgh Castle
Address: 294 Pitt St, Sydney (corner of Bathurst St).



CPD launch May 23

Our official launch took place on May 23rd in Sydney, with Julian Burnside, John Menadue, Miriam Lyons and Charles Firth as MC.


Australian Workplaces: What rights? Whose rights? Your say...

The Honourable Paul Munro will speak on the rights based approach to regulating employment relations at an Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) event at the end of June.


Reform in the Australian Health Sector

John Menadue is keynote speaker at the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance's National Health Reform Summit in Canberra at the end of July 2007.



Robyn Williams 'in conversation' with Miriam Lyons

Join ABC Radio Presenter Robyn Williams in conversation with CPD Director Miriam Lyons to discuss Robyn’s new book Future Perfect: What next? And other impossible questions on 22 August.



Not all roads lead to Rome: Crisis without collapse

CPD members are invited to join Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down, and CPD fellow Ian Dunlop in Sydney on August 27th to discuss how we can build our capacity to deal with environmental and economic crises.


Preparing for the long haul on climate change: A one-day roundtable

This roundtable in Brisbane on August 29 will focus on community and business governance in the era of climate change, with keynote speaker Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down, and CPD fellow Ian Dunlop.


Deeper in Debt: Australia's addiction to borrowed money

'Deeper in Debt: Australia's addiction to borrowed money' is CPD fellow Steve Keen's analysis of Australia's looming crisis in housing affordability and private debt.

The paper will be launched by Michael McNamara, general manager of Australian Property Monitors, at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts in the Sydney CBD at 12:00 on Tuesday 18 September.



International Metropolis conference workshop: Multiculturalism vs plural monoculturalism

CPD Director Miriam Lyons and fellow Emma Dawson will join international researchers to present a workshop titled Narratives of Inclusion: Multiculturalism versus Plural Monoculturalism in Liberal Democracies at the 12th International Metropolis Conference on Migration, Economic Growth and Social Cohesion in October in Melbourne.



Citizen juries in Health

CPD and Sydney University's Australian Health Policy Institute will present a joint seminar on the use of citizen juries to improve outcomes in health policy decisions on Thursday 18 October at the Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney.


Launch of Julian Burnside's 'Watching Brief: reflections on human rights, law, and justice'

CPD patron Juian Burnside launches his collection of essays and meditations on law, justice, human rights, ethics and what constitutes a decent human society at Gleebooks on Friday 9 November at 6:30pm.


John Menadue at the Victorian Healthcare Association conference

John Menadue will address the Victorian Healthcare Association on 'the reform agenda', Tuesday November 13. His speech is available for download here.


Join us for a think-in

Join the CPD at the GetUp Refresh conference to discuss our progress so far and our plans for 2008.


Changing the country: ideas to shape the next three years

The country has changed governments, but will the government change the country? Michael Cooney, Jo-Anne Schofield and Miriam Lyons lead a discussion on the ideas that could have an impact on the new federal government


AFR 10th Annual Health Congress: Building a healthcare system around people and their needs

CPD Chair John Menadue and fellow Ian MacAuley will speak at the Australian Financial Review's annual Health Congress held in Sydney on February 27th-29th, 2008.


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