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Youth Unemployment in Australia
November 22, 2015Research Report 7

This report looks at quantifying the rising youth unemployment problem, understanding its causes and proposing...

Should a Baker be Forced to Bake Cakes for Same Sex Weddings: Democracy and the Rights and Limits of Religion and Conscience in Contemporary Australia
Anthony FisherNovember 6, 2015OP143

How important are religious liberty and freedom of conscience is in modern statecraft and nation-building?...

National Security and Counter-Terrorism
George BrandisNovember 6, 2015

On Friday 6 Nov. Senator the Hon. George Brandis QC, the Commonwealth Attorney-General, Vice-President of...

Health Innovation
Rohan Mead, Mark Fitzgibbon, Angus TaylorSeptember 22, 2015Event Speeches

It’s time to reposition health research. In the wake of the Medicare co-payment debate it...

Free to Choose Charter Schools: How charter and for-profit schools can boost public education
August 31, 2015Research Report 6

Charter schools and free schools – publicly-funded, privately-managed schools – have been introduced in several...

Anti-Semitism in the Schoolyard: Combatting Racial Prejudice Early On
Zehavit Gross, Suzanne RutlandAugust 27, 2015

This presentation is part of a broader, qualitative research project, which began in 2006 and...

Unions ramp up attack on private schools for poor
May 25, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

In his extraordinary 2009 book The Beautiful Tree, James Tooley revealed how low-cost private schools...

NAPLAN is much more gain than pain
May 18, 2018The Australian

  More than a million Australian students sat NAPLAN tests this week, assessing their standards...

NAPLAN much more gain than pain
May 18, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

More than a million Australian students sat NAPLAN tests this week, assessing their standards in...

Costello’s rare gift for lucidity
May 18, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

An enthusiastic audience braved Monday’s morning chill this week for a CIS breakfast with former...

Gaza slides further into violence, poverty and despair
May 18, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Sustained violence in protests along a series of staging points on the Gazan border with...

Keeping the roots healthy
May 18, 2018The Spectator

  Last year’s same-sex marriage campaigns prompted Australians to think deeply about one of the...

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