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Our media releases, opinion pieces, commentary, videos and audio podcasts are available in this section. Our experts are able to comment on a range of policy areas amd issues. Please contact our Communications Director, Karla Pincott via phone 0407 716 752 or email kpincott@cis.org.au

Reform, Retreat and Relinquishment: Lessons from historic state ownership of businesses in NSW
September 24, 2019PP23

In the 1980s and 90s, Australian governments agreed to an ambitious program of micro-economic reforms...

What Do Parents Want? Australian childcare preferences and attitudes
Eugenie Joseph, Fiona MuellerSeptember 10, 2019PP22

Many Australian families rely on formal and informal childcare to enable them to take on...

Inquiry into measurement and outcome-based funding in New South Wales schools
Glenn FaheyAugust 31, 2019

The Portfolio Committee on Education in the NSW Legislative Council has set up an inquiry...

The China Student Boom and the Risks It Poses to Australian Universities
Salvatore BabonesAugust 20, 2019AP5

Australia’s universities are taking a multi-million dollar gamble with taxpayer money to pursue a high-risk,...

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The China Challenge
Rowan CallickJuly 28, 2019OP171

The rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has helped make Australia rich, but...

Overcoming the Odds 2: Where are the top-performing disadvantaged secondary schools?
July 23, 2019PP21

Students from disadvantaged social backgrounds perform worse academically on average than more advantaged students. However,...

Crowned king, but sword stayed in the stone
April 17, 2020The Australian

In the social media era, political journalism increasingly has become a vicious business. This is...

Rule of law meets Covid-19
April 16, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

In the space of just a few weeks, the rule of law in Australia has...

UBI still an unbelievably bad idea
Glenn FaheyApril 16, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

Opportunists across the political spectrum have been emboldened by the current crisis to propose all...

Fines and freedoms
April 16, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

When a learner driver is fined more than $1,650 for ‘non-essential travel’ by going for...

Tracking a pandemic: an unacceptable invasion of privacy
Monica WilkieApril 16, 2020Spectator

The federal government’s plan to use a voluntary tracking app to monitor our movements –...

Students are starting school online this week – only to face a Ruddy mess
Glenn FaheyApril 14, 2020Spectator

Nobody could have predicted the demands of this year’s schooling transformation, but we could —...

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