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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...

Gulliver Unbound: Can American Rule of World?
Joseph JoffeNovember 2, 2002OP85

Twenty first century America is the Gulliver of our times. It dominates the international sphere...

Islam in Pluralist Indonesia
Mohammad Fajrul FalaakhOctober 3, 2002OP83

In this, The Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom for 2002, noted Indonesian academic Mohammad...

Poor Laws (1): The Unfair Dismissal Laws and Long-term Unemployment
Kayoko TsumoriAugust 20, 2002IA26

Joblessness is a major cause of poverty. Poverty will be alleviated significantly by engaging the...

Whose Progress? A Response to the ABS Report Measuring Australia’s Progress
Peter SaundersAugust 20, 2002IA25

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recently launched a report, Measuring Australia’s Progress, which it...

Sustainable Immigration and Cultural Integration
Wolfgang KasperAugust 15, 2002PM55

In the report, entitled Sustainable Immigration and Cultural Integration, Professor Kasper outlines the benefits of...

Don’t blame the COVID pandemic for truancy
Glenn FaheyFebruary 8, 2024AFR

Don’t blame the COVID pandemic for truancy. Sliding attendance of Australia’s school students is a...

The War for Australia’s Past
Tom SwitzerFebruary 5, 2024AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE

The War for Australia’s Past. Australia ought to be in the world’s gaze for being...

Education policy must mature beyond calls for more money
Glenn FaheyFebruary 3, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

Education policy must mature from being dominated by demands for more funding and instead focus...

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Albanese slams door on Labor’s own tax aspirations
Robert CarlingFebruary 1, 2024AFR

Albanese slams door on Labor’s own tax aspirations. Australia’s personal income tax structure has been...

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Future Fund critics owe Costello an apology
Tom SwitzerJanuary 30, 2024AFR

Future Fund critics owe Costello an apology. Opinion writers and policy wonks make regular criticisms...

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Labor has gone a long way towards shredding its credibility
Simon Cowan, Robert CarlingJanuary 30, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

Labor has gone a long way towards shredding its credibility. It was said of a...

Ideas with Impact
Tom SwitzerJune 20, 2018

The CIS has been championing ideas for a better Australia for over 40 years. Help...

Life on the crossbench
David LeyonhjelmJune 5, 2018

Senator Leyonhjelm shared his thoughts about life on the crossbench and what makes him different...

Shaping the NSW Budget
Dominic PerrottetMay 30, 2018

As Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet is focused on financial discipline and making better use of the...

The audacity of Xi Jinping
Rowan Callick, Tom SwitzerMay 18, 2018

Xi Jinping seeks to entrench his legitimacy as unchallengeable ruler for the next decade or...

Australia’s miracle economy
Peter Costello, Simon CowanMay 14, 2018

Peter Costello delivered 12 budgets — 10 of them surpluses — and when he left...

Australia’s Energy Debate
Audrey ZibelmanApril 24, 2018

Ms Zibelman leads AEMO, the independent gas and electricity system and market operator in Australia,...

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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