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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

Beyond Romanticism: Questioning the Green Gospel
Samuel GreggJuly 2, 2000OP73

In this occasinal Paper, Samuel Gregg raises questions about the adequacy of many Christian pronouncements...

Trailing the Class: Sole Parent Families and Educational Disadvantage
Alison RichJune 26, 2000IA11

The association between family structure and educational performance has been the focus of much research...

Boy Troubles: Understanding Rising Suicide, Rising Crime and Educational Failure
Jennifer Buckingham OAMJune 14, 2000PM46

Australian boys are at greater risk of doing badly at school, participating in juvenile crime,...

The Moral Foundations of Freedom: Lessons from the Religious Encounter with Democracy
George WeigelMay 30, 2000OP76

What happens when a society loses it moral capital? Can democracy thrive in a value-neutral...

Behavioural Poverty
Lucy SullivanApril 9, 2000PM45

The welfare debate is bedeviled by the failure to distinguish behavioral from financial poverty. The...

A Short History of Australian Liberalism
Greg MelleuishMarch 16, 2000OP74

This study was written in response to what I see as the misleading nature of...

Morality and Foreign Policy
Owen HarriesDecember 7, 2001ABC Radio

Recent events have generated a great deal of discussion about morality and foreign policy. It...

A clumsy hand is no help: Governments are no good at social policy
Peter SaundersDecember 6, 2001The Australian

US founding father and third president Thomas Jefferson was right after all: “The government that...

Tried and true way to economic growth
Wolfgang KasperDecember 6, 2001The Australian Financial Review

The Heritage Foundation in Washington has just published its economic freedom ratings for 2002, with...

Uni student quota system is unfair and inefficient
December 5, 2001The West Australian

Although the unlucky ones don’t yet know who they are, more young Western Australians than...

To populate or not to populate…
Barry MaleyDecember 5, 2001The Canberra Times

The question of legal and illegal immigration is likely to occupy the incoming federal government...

Aid has failed the Pacific
Helen HughesNovember 30, 2001

Per capita income has grown at less than 1% a year in the Pacific during...

NSW After the Pandemic
Gladys Berejiklian, Tom SwitzerJuly 1, 2020

In the battle of ideas, the Centre for Independent Studies is like a munitions factory,...

On Liberty EP13 Cancel Culture knows no limits
Salvatore Babones, James AllanJune 25, 2020On Liberty

“It is becoming clear that cancel culture knows no limits. Old, incredibly valuable pieties at...

On Liberty EP12 Five from Five Update
Salvatore Babones, Jennifer Buckingham OAMJune 18, 2020On Liberty

We were pleased to have Dr Jennifer Buckingham to On Liberty. Jennifer is director of...

NSW After the Pandemic
Dominic Perrottet, Simon CowanJune 15, 2020

Former NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet joins CIS research director Simon Cowan to discuss the aftermath...

On Liberty EP11 The role of Government
Salvatore Babones, Lindsay ShepherdJune 11, 2020On Liberty

Salvatore Babones spoke with Lindsay Shepherd. Lindsay has been covering the anti-lockdown protests and is...

Trump and America in Crisis
George F. Will, Tom SwitzerJune 8, 2020

CIS Executive Director, Tom Switzer interviews George Will and asks is America in Crisis? A...

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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