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Building Prosperity: Australia’s Future as a Global Player
Wolfgang KasperMarch 2, 2000SP03

Australia has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past quarter century. One only has to...

Shooting the Messenger: A Critique of Australia’s Internet Content Regulation Regime
Heath GibsonFebruary 2, 2000IA10

With the expansion of the Internet into society, media reports of pornography, paedophiles and racist...

The Puzzle of Boys’ Educational Decline: A Review of the Evidence
Jennifer Buckingham OAMNovember 18, 1999IA9

The declining standard of boys school performance in the last decade is great cause for...

The End of Chaos? Global Markets in the Information Era
November 11, 1999OP72

The Sixteenth Annual John Bonython Lecture delivered by Jerry Jordan The 16th Annual John Bonython...

Christianity and Entrepreneurship: Protestant and Catholic Thoughts
Samuel GreggNovember 5, 1999PM44

This monograph is a scholarly yet understandable study of entrepreneurship from both a Protestant (Preece)...

Economics & Ethics: The Dispute and the Dialogue
Samuel GreggNovember 2, 1999OP71

The relationship between economists and religious thinkers is often acrimonious. In this Occasional Paper, an...

UK and French elections highlight flaws of fixed-term parliamens
Scott PrasserJuly 12, 2024SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Business Council of Australia suggested Australia...

Déjà vu in Australian higher education
Steven SchwartzJuly 4, 2024SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE

History repeats itself, often with a sense of irony only those with long memories can...

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The Smart Energy Council makes two basic mistakes
Alex BaintonJuly 2, 2024SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE

The Energy Minister has claimed the Coalition’s seven proposed nuclear sites will barely make a...

inflation
Tax cuts + inflation = 80% of Aussies worse off by end of decade
Simon Cowan, Matthew TaylorJune 29, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

The contrast between this week’s high inflation figures with the long-awaited commencement of the Stage...

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Nothing pretty about a post-pandemic budget
Robert CarlingJune 21, 2024SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE

The New South Wales Budget tabled this week completes the series of 2024-25 budgets from...

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Schools are finally getting back to what works best
Trisha Jha, Simon CowanJune 15, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

This week Victoria finally embraced the evidence on how kids learn to read, and the...

Adam Creighton on The Drum, ABC 24
December 21, 2011
One on one with David Coltart
December 19, 2011
One on one with David Coltart
December 19, 2011
Oliver Marc Hartwich on Network Ten – The Project, Price Drivers
December 15, 2011
Price Drivers — Five Case Studies in How Government is Making Australia Unaffordable
December 12, 2011
Price Drivers — Five Case Studies in How Government is Making Australia Unaffordable
December 12, 2011
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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