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Topic: Centre for Independent Studies

	Learning Space - From Training Centre to Open Learning Environment
		The goal is to create a centre for independent studies at the colleges, where the student can study independently by using local area network services and global services via the internet with computers equipped with technical aids and special software.
		A large selection of cd-roms, software, videos and other study materials, such as books, are available in a form suitable for the individual, where we pay special attention to the needs of partially sighted, blind, deafblind and multihandicapped people.
		The centre for independent studies is part of a virtual study environment, where it is possible to study at virtual courses.
	www.arlainst.fi /projekt/space.htm (844 words)

	Centre For Independent Studies Pushes For Divorce Law Reform » ABC Hobart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Centre For Independent Studies Pushes For Divorce Law Reform » ABC Hobart
		Centre For Independent Studies Pushes For Divorce Law Reform
		With a divorce rate of approximately 40% and an average of 1 in 3 children living in single parent households, the prospect of separation is a reality for many families.
	www.abc.net.au /cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/hobart/stories/s938671.htm (264 words)

	LibertyGuide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Centre emphasizes the role of the free market in an open society and other voluntary processes in providing many of the goods and services normally supplied by the compulsory methods of government.
		The Centre is nonpartisan and independent in both funding and research.
		The aim of the French-based Institute of Economic Studies Europe is to stand at the center of a worldwide network of students, scholars and other intellectuals.
	www.theihs.org /libertyguide/links/links.php?id=3&print=1 (815 words)

	TownHall.com's RightPages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Centre for Independent Studies - The Centre for Independent Studies has been one of Australasia's leading independent public policy research institute since 1976.
		Centre for Policy Studies - The Centre for Policy Studies is the leading centre right think tank in the UK.
		Research Centre Free Europe - A research centre aimed to promove the case for an Estonia outside the EU Science Research Foundation - Organization in Turkey engaged in organizing activities to lay the appropriate ground for enlightened generations, and to protect the moral and ethical values that keep the Turkish state and society standing
	www.townhall.com /rightpages/261.asp?parent=261 (669 words)

	Independent Publisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Helen Hughes at The Centre for Independent Studies.
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	www.reprintrightseverymonth.com /make-money/independent-publisher.html (494 words)

	OMAN: Oman Studies Centre (Main Page)
		The Oman Studies Centre was founded in Germany in 1975 as a documentation centre on Oman and the Arabian Gulf.
		It is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit academic institution which mainly collects information on Oman to assist and coordinate research on Oman and to promote interest in Oman.
		In line with the Centre's interdisciplinary area studies approach, fields of interest cover a wide range from Oman's history, geography, culture, economy, arts, law, language, natural history and even include more marginal topics such as philately and numismatics.
	www.oman.org (321 words)

	The Centre for Independent Studies
		Papua New Guinea and Fiji are large enough to govern themselves independently if they adopt government structures appropriate to their populations of 5 million and nearly 1 million people respectively, if they engage modestly in international affairs and if they opt for pro-growth policies.
		The gains from the financial centre accrue to the same groups as the rents from aid, leaving people in the countryside without education and other services and infrastructure.
		The prospects for independence were long denied (as they still are in the French colonies) so that when independence came to the Pacific as a result of global anti-colonisation agitation, Pacific populations were unprepared for it.
	www.exkiap.net /articles/cis20030507_failed_aid/ia33.htm (12917 words)

	Australian institute calls for scrapping of foreign aid to Pacific
		The Centre for Independent Studies says the annual Australian aid budget for the South Pacific, 400-million dollars, is doing more harm than good.
		The Centre for Independent Studies says this means life for most people in the Pacific is no better than it was 25 years ago.
		The Centre says that Papua New Guinea and Fiji are the only economies big enough to be independent countries.
	abcasiapacific.com /news/stories/asiapacific_stories_848646.htm (246 words)

	A woman's place is in the struggle: In defence of no-fault divorce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Maley, a senior fellow at the Centre For Independent Studies (CIS), was launching his new discussion paper on Australia's divorce laws.
		Maley, a retired lecturer in behaviour studies, is frequently quoted by the corporate media as an “expert” on marriage, because of his credentials as director of the“Taking Children Seriously” research program — a program initiated and funded by CIS.
		According to its introductory web page, the program was initiated because, “changes to family law and taxation have not encouraged the institutions of marriage and the benefits of raising children, and it is more difficult today for families to survive financially under the taxation and welfare system than a generation ago”.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2003/554/554p9c.htm (676 words)

	The World News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A new report paints a grim picture of Papua New Guinea, as a failing state that has lost one generation to crime and is in danger of losing another to AIDS.
		The Centre for Independent Studies think-tank warns that billions of dollars in Australian aid will be wasted, unless the PNG Government commits to major reforms.
		PROFESSOR HELEN HUGHES, CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES: Half the children are not in school.
	www9.sbs.com.au /theworldnews/trans.php?transcript=27226 (297 words)

	Reform family law to raise status of marriage, says analyst
		Causes lie in the cultural, economic, social and legal changes that have impacted on family life over the past 30 to 40 years as a result of the introduction of sole parent pensions and no-fault divorce, the mass entry of women into the workforce and growth of childcare.
		What is urgently needed is a reform of family law that will raise the status of marriage, he argues in Family and Marriage in Australia, a policy monograph published by the Centre for Independent Studies.
		Family and Marriage in Australia by Barry Maley, 235pp, $29.95rrp, Centre for Independent Studies.
	www.catholicweekly.com.au /02/jan/6/19.html (296 words)

	ADB Shanghai 2002 - Seminars: Papers and Presentations - ADB.org
		WOLFGANG KASPER is senior fellow, Centre of Independent Studies, a free-market think tank in Sydney.
		Kasper's research and consulting work has focused on industry location, technical and organization innovation, defense economics, international trade and finance, and institutional development.
		He is an elected member of the international Mont Pèlerin Society; and serves on the Academic Advisory Council, Centre for Independent Studies, and the Presidium, the Centre for the New Europe.
	www.adb.org /AnnualMeeting/2002/Seminars/cvs/cv-kasper_wolfgang.html (110 words)

	Bottom line page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Only three months ago another paper from the Centre for Independent Studies carried this intriguing headline, "Can Papua New Guinea Come Back from the Brink".
		Prior to August 2002, the main achievement of former Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta lay in institutional reforms that mainly impacted the financial sector.
		These reforms included greater independence for the central bank, Bank of Papua New Guinea, particularly in its control of monetary policy, an issue with which Bottom Line has previously expressed some reservations and which might give cause for discussion on a later occasion.
	www.thenational.com.pg /1105/column2.htm (1013 words)

	ethics events - st james ethics centre
		Below you will find information about ethics-related events, including any run by St James Ethics Centre and those organised by others which may be of interest.
		St James Ethics Centre is pleased to announce that we will be holding a Lawyers' Lecture in Sydney on 18 October 2005.
		The Lawyers' Lecture provides an opportunity for the legal profession to initiate a conversation which the Centre hopes will stimulate debate about how the profession might realise the best that it is capable of for the ultimate benefit of society.
	www.ethics.org.au /things_to_do/events (894 words)

	Jesuit Social Services - What's News?
		The report issued by the Centre for Independent Studies on police number and crime statistics needs some critical analysis of the sort not often encountered by media reporters according to the Victorian Criminal Justice Coalition.
		The report "Does Prison Work?"suggested that there had been a dramatic fall in the American crime rate over the last decade and that this coincided with, and was thus related to, the massive expansion of the American prison population during the last two decades!".
		A recent study of Jesuit Social Services, Unequal in Life (Vinson, 1999) showed that crime tends to be concentrated in a limited number of localities.
	www.jss.org.au /news/m_crime.html (662 words)

	Atlas Economic Research Foundation
		The Centre for Independent Studies has been Australasia's leading public policy research institute since 1976.
		The Centre emphasises the role of the free market in an open society and other voluntary processes in providing many of the goods and services normally supplied by the compulsory methods of government.
		The Centre is non-partisan and independent in both funding and research.
	www.atlasusa.org /directory/institute_profile.php?refer=directory&org_id=71 (169 words)

	Te Puna Web Directory > NZ > Community and Social Studies > Social Sciences
		The Aotearoa New Zealand Federation of Social Studies Associations is the national professional body for social studies educators.
		The Centre for Independent Studies is a public policy research institute.
		The New Zealand Futures Trust is an independent non-profit organisation whose members aim to identify developments and changes affecting the lives and aspirations of New Zealanders, and to promote debate about possible futures.
	webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz /dir/en/nz/community-and-social-studies/social-sciences (1153 words)

	Postgraduates undertaking research are currently working in an environment in which the value of knowledge is ...
		Elected the first President of the National Tertiary Education Union in 1994, and re-elected in 1998, and again in 2002, she represents the Union’s 26,000 academic and general staff members in matters relating to tertiary education funding and policy issues.
		Andrew Norton is a Research Fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies, and also holds a part-time position at the University of Melbourne.
		Prior to joining Dr Kemp he was Editor of Policy, the quarterly journal of The Centre for Independent Studies and a fortnightly columnist for the Brisbane Courier-Mail.
	arts.anu.edu.au /sss/nigl/Panel.htm (952 words)

	Crikey Website - Wayne Swan: Books, fights and abuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was plugging a paper produced for the Centre by Sinclair Davidson of the RMIT School of Economics that argues Australian income tax rates are not only high by international standards, but also that higher rate taxpayers pay much more than their fair share (you can find it here - Perspectives on Tax Reform).
		Apparently to be titled "Postcodes", the book is out of the Pluto Press stable and is an analysis of the growing inequalities between rich and poor in Australia as examplified by income disparities according to place of residence.
		So the last thing the lad would have wanted was a study from the CIS undercutting his whole arguement by suggesting that the tax system is in fact benefiting the poor at the expense of the rich.
	www.crikey.com.au /articles/2004/06/03-0011.html (1584 words)

	BSU - About the University - Profiles
		CSAP grant gained in order to study alternative approaches to studying quantitative methods.
		Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney, Australia, 27th Oct 2003.
		This seminar has been set up for me to provide details, and to discuss, the findings from my research on speed cameras.
	www.bathspa.ac.uk /about/profiles/profile.asp?user=academic\buca1 (421 words)

	Dire predictions for Papua New Guinea's future
		An analysis released by the Centre for Independent Studies says life for PNG's five million people has barely improved since independence from Australia.
		He points out that when nearly 25 percent of the budget goes to servicing debt there is little room to move in.
		The Centre for Independent Studies report predicts that the country could degenerate into a patchwork of regions run by strongmen and criminals -- a violent trend already evident in the Highlands
	abcasiapacific.com /news/stories/asiapacific_stories_804520.htm (223 words)

	Destruction of Aboriginal society in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Independent commentary, free from the left-wing, politically correct bigotry of the majority of journalists
		The Centre for Independent Studies has just released a paper by two academics, Helen Hughes and Jenness Warin, that highlights the problems I first wrote about on this site in February 2004 - the devastation wrought on Australia's Aboriginal population by the the socialist policies of H.C. Coombs and other bleeding hearts.
		The academics make many of the same points I made- the degradation and frustration rife in hundreds of human zoos in the middle of nowhere.
	www.australian-news.com.au /Aboriginals2.htm (267 words)

	Broken homes and violated innocence - Barry Maley Centre for Independent Studies
		Broken homes and violated innocence - Barry Maley Centre for Independent Studies
		That means three things: concentrating immediate action in promptly identifying children at risk; doing nothing to make life more difficult for the overwhelming majority of intact families who raise their children well; and striving to create the conditions for such families to flourish in the future.
		Barry Maley is senior fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney and director of the centre's "Taking Children Seriously research programme.
	www.mensrights.com.au /child27c.htm (982 words)

	Russ Grayson argues that think-tanks should not be allowed so much influence over public policy - On Line Opinion - ...
		No, I'm not some leftist opponent of the likes of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) and the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS).
		I agree with some of their analysis as I do with much analysis from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (with the exception of their alarmist assertion that terrorists could use the Solomon Islands for training bases; rural residents there are well aware of what goes on even in remote parts of their customary territories).
		The antipathy of the IPA to NGOs is well known, so it is a fair question as to how independent, unbiased and free of ideological influence their report will be.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=729 (1286 words)

	Kicking Australia's welfare recipients by Andy Blunden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thank goodness in a time when academics still think that they can insulate themselves from the demands of the market, that there is an institution which can provide you with whatever opinion you are willing to pay for, and scientific arguments to back it up.
		Such an institution is the Centre for Independent Studies.
		It is more a handbook for the populist head-kicker than a serious scientific study.
	home.mira.net /~deller/ethicalpolitics/reviews/saunders.htm (942 words)

	Institutional Economics :: Home Page
		This set the stage for postgraduate study in economics, including a Master of Economics (Honours) from Macquarie University.
		An edited version of my Masters dissertation was subsequently published as a monograph by the Centre for Independent Studies.
		My postgraduate studies included participation in programs run by the Institute for Humane Studies and the Centre for Study of Public Choice, both at George Mason University.
	www.institutional-economics.com /index.php/section/about (475 words)

	Policy: A Journal of Public Policy and Ideas
		The OECD is using the post-September 11 political climate to browbeat so-called tax havens into dismantling legal and constitutional safeguards protecting financial privacy so that high-taxing EU governments can get the information they need to tax (again) income saved or invested in offshore jurisdictions (Summer 2002-03).
		Policy is a publication of The Centre for Independent Studies
		Please contact The Centre for Independent Studies (policy@cis.org.au) for permission to reprint material.
	www.cis.org.nz /Policy/polhome.htm (444 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - PNG on the path to chaos and poverty: report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An Australian think tank says Papua New Guinea is on the path to economic paralysis and government collapse.
		Graeme Dobell reports on an analysis released by the Centre for Independent Studies:
		The Centre for Independent Studies says falling living standards are linked to a severe degredation of government and bureaucracy, which are afflicted by corruption and clan cronyism.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_804448.htm (209 words)

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