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John Roskam

John Roskam is the Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs.

Before joining the IPA, he was the Executive Director of The Menzies Research Centre in Canberra. He has also held positions as Chief of Staff to Dr David Kemp, the Federal Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, as Senior Advisor to Don Hayward, Victorian Minister for Education in the first Kennett Government, and as Manager of Government and Corporate Affairs for Rio Tinto. His policy analysis includes reports such as Australia's Education Choices (with Professor Brian Caldwell) and The Protocol: Managing Relations with NGOs (with Gary Johns).

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Not much light on the hill

Author: John Roskam

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Subject:	Not much between their ears
Posted by:	anthony william collins
Date:	6/19/2005
Federal Labor needs to purge its current members and start afresh. John Roskam thinks there are some members of the federal caucus with the intellectual capacity to cope with the challenges ahead. I am yet to see anything which would equate with the flicker of light from a hurricane lamp in a blizzard. If there is any life in the caucus let's hear it. For all Latham's faults at least he came out swinging. What use are these members if thay have an intellect and don't use it?

Where have all the conservatives gone?

Author: John Roskam

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Subject:	Clarity!!
Posted by:	Mark Hodge
Date:	10/2/2005
A fantastic article that should be compulsory reading for all pollies, journos and students. Consider in the light of the Economist's assertion that the conservative movement in the US is about to go through a period of serious change. http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4462459

Corporate responsibility is to make profits

Author: John Roskam

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Subject:	Spot On
Posted by:	Mark Hodge
Date:	1/13/2006
Profit = goodness, and nothing is free.

Subject:	Corporate Social Responsiblity
Posted by:	Shann Turnbull
Date:	8/26/2006
The benefits for business and society from corporations being socially responsible is increased competitiveness and self-regulation to minimize government regulation as described in my parliamentary submission at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=800904

Why the birthrate`s falling

Author: John Roskam

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Subject:	getting more kids.
Posted by:	Henry Thornton
Date:	12/5/2006
Perhaps if the Federal Government offered to pay the school fees for kids no.3 and no.4 it may help the middle classes to produce these future tax payers. For those who send their kids to State schools, they could receive a grant equal to the average payment for these much desired 3rd and 4th kids. My sister has 4 kids and she likes the idea. We do have a trillion dollar economy. Sir Wellington Boot.

Market has to set wages

Author: John Roskam

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Subject:	Price signals
Posted by:	Henry Thornton
Date:	5/19/2006
Spot on,that boffin Roskam. The only way forward in this skills crisis is to sqeeze these dopes in Canberra to allow into Australia the full range of trained manpower who are willing to work in Australia. Most of the whining unemployed are without useful skills. That is the long and the short of it. 40% of Australians drop out of their apprenticeships without completing. Why? The real enemy is the Immigration Dept. Devotees of a Nazi style autarky policy to a man. Sir Wellington Boot

Some children have only one shot at history

Author: John Roskam

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Subject:	Teaching History
Posted by:	Henry Thornton
Date:	8/8/2006
Liked the article by John Roskam. Knowing history puts a lot of perspective into one's life. To make History real and important our schools will need to teach the history of 'our tribe'. Australia is part of Western Civilization, andso this Civilization has to be taught comprehensively. Obviousl;y we are living in an area of the world where we are 'the odd man out'...this creates problems because we are not going away nor are we turning ourselves into something else. We shall remain part of Western Civilization. We have always taken good ideas and values from other people and we won't stop, but there are core values of our civilization. These need to be identified and taught...to ALL the kids in australian schools, irrespective of where their parents came from. Get the hint? Sir Wellington Boot.

Subject:	History
Posted by:	Greg
Date:	9/8/2006
Great article Roskam. I was personally discouraged studying history (a subject I loved) in VCE because it was marked SO tightly and was much harder to get a high mark than more exact sciences such as maths, biology or economics. In fact I think this is a problem with all humanities at VCE level and it is a terrible thing.

A single curriculum is not the answer

Author: John Roskam

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Subject:	Education reform - let's do it properly
Posted by:	Peter
Date:	11/10/2006
Bravo Brother Roskam. There is a more general point - private schools set their own agendas, so far As I can see, and get better results - hence the steady move to the private sector. What about a voucher system - the Feds could bribe one state to try it, and I bet within a decade it would be the rule everywhere but the People's Republic of Canberra

Subject:	curricula
Posted by:	Henry Thornton
Date:	11/10/2006
Must agree with comrade Roskam. The less centralism the better. Not only in education but all sorts of other social fields as well. The single biggest long term problem is the abandonment of serious study of literature. I think literature and the theatre (the real stuff, not rubbish)are crucial in forming civilised ideas in the heads of yoof. Connect the little twerps to their traditional culture and all problems will be manageable. Sir Wellington Boot.

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