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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

A Self-Reliant Australia. Welfare Policy for the 21st century
Peter SaundersMarch 16, 2003OP86

In this paper Peter Saunders suggests that the time has come to turn back the...

Papua New Guinea on the Brink
Sue WindybankMarch 12, 2003IA30

Papua New Guinea (PNG) shows every sign of following its Melanesian neighbour, the Solomon Islands,...

The Missing Links: Class Size, Discipline, Inclusion and Teacher Quality
Jennifer Buckingham OAMFebruary 19, 2003IA29

The Vinson Report on Public Education in NSW contains a wealth of information, and makes...

Poor Laws (2): The Minimum Wage and Unemployment
Kayoko TsumoriDecember 2, 2002IA28

Many social policy researchers and practitioners in Australia believe that a high minimum wage helps...

The Unchained University
Andrew NortonNovember 19, 2002PM56

Australia’s universities are not preparing students adequately for their futures. Report author and higher education...

Getting it Right Some of the Time: An Appraisal of the Report on the Inquiry into the Education of Boys
Jennifer Buckingham OAMNovember 14, 2002IA27

The statistical evidence showing that boys have lower literacy levels and lower average performance than...

The true lesson Aussies should learn from Trump’s victory
Simon CowanNovember 16, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

Since the US election result confirmed Donald Trump would re-enter the White House in triumph,...

How Trump made the biggest political comeback possible
Tom SwitzerNovember 6, 2024AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
The sad thing about this dispiriting election campaign is that it hasn’t clarified America’s problems,...
War on misinformation doomed to fail: tariffs a case in point
Simon CowanNovember 2, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

Experts in misinformation will no doubt be closely following the extraordinary claims being thrown around...

Property ownership key to closing the gap
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOOctober 26, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

The debate around land reform on Indigenous traditional lands has been going on for decades,...

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Having an authority to rule on what is truth is deeply problematic
Simon CowanOctober 18, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

There is no better sign of the loss of faith in democracy than the belief...

Hayek-Friedrich road to serfdom
This book changed the world. The West needs to read it again
Tom SwitzerOctober 9, 2024AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

The Austrian economist and intellectual Friedrich Hayek was a victim of cancel culture long before...

What Lies behind the Indigenous Statistics
Ken WyattApril 10, 2018

The Hon Ken Wyatt spoke for CIS on Indigenous Health and Medical care.

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Big Australia or Slash Immigration?
Mark Latham, Judith Sloan, Glenn Withers, Adam CreightonMarch 21, 2018

Mark Latham & Judith Sloan vs Glenn Withers & Adam Creighton. Former prime minister Tony...

Fightback, 25 years on
John Hewson, Paul Kelly, Miranda Devine, Troy Bramston, Tom SwitzerMarch 15, 2018

March 13 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1993 federal election contest between the...

Modi, a transformative figure?
Sadanand DhumeMarch 6, 2018

What does Modi mean for Australia and the Western World. Sadanand Dhume, Author of My...

An update from across the Tasman
Oliver Marc Hartwich, Tom SwitzerMarch 1, 2018

After nine years of centre-right governments under Prime Ministers John Key and Bill English, New...

How Technology has Changed Policy
Leigh SalesFebruary 22, 2018

Leigh Sales, Australian award winning Journalist and author and host of the Australian television channel...

Human rights that give us our humanity
Lorraine Finlay, Robert ForsythNovember 24, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob chats to Lorraine Finlay, Human Rights Commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission, about...

That’s not democracy, this is democracy!
Roslyn Fuller, Robert ForsythNovember 17, 2022Liberalism in Question

On this episode Rob chats to author Roslyn Fuller. Liberals believe in the value of...

Challenges and opportunities for liberalism in Germany
Sabine Beppler-Spahl, Robert ForsythNovember 10, 2022Liberalism in Question

Speaking from Berlin, Sabine speaks with Rob about why she set up the Freiblickinstitut (Free...

Against tribalism. Take an empirical not emotional approach
Claire Lehmann, Robert ForsythNovember 3, 2022Liberalism in Question

Claire Lehmann, founding editor of Quillette sits down with Rob. Claire explains the philosophy of...

A theologian who thinks secularism is a very good thing
Mike Bird, Robert ForsythOctober 27, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob talks to Mike Bird, the Academic Dean at Ridley Theological College Melbourne, on the...

Liberalism: the winner in the battle of ideas but the loser on the ground
Steven Schwartz, Robert ForsythOctober 20, 2022Liberalism in Question

On this episode Rob chats with former university vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz. Steven understands liberalism as...

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