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Raging against the past: Guilt, justice, and the postcolonial reformation
Peter KurtiApril 7, 2022AP35

Postcolonial Theory wages relentless campaigns of reformation against Enlightenment conceptions of reason, tolerance, and liberty....

Expand University Places without Blowing Out Budgets: The 1/1 Policy for Undergraduate Reform
Salvatore BabonesMarch 28, 2022OP186
As Australia heads to the polls in 2022, higher education is, as usual, a question...
Initial Teacher Education in mathematics
Failing to teach the teacher: An analysis of mathematics Initial Teacher Education
Glenn Fahey, Jordan O’Sullivan, Jared BussellNovember 25, 2021AP29

Policymakers have increasingly looked to improvements in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) as key to overcoming...

Between Geography and History: Delhi and Canberra in Indo-Pacific Security
C. Raja MohanNovember 11, 2021AP28

The Quad has emerged as a major new element of the architecture in Indo-Pacific security...

Beating lockdown blues: Students pass the Covid test
Glenn FaheyOctober 25, 2021RR42

Students have suffered educational disruption in combatting the spread of covid-19, particularly in dealing with...

Time to ‘step up’ the tempo: Australia’s answer to Beijing in Papua New Guinea
Sean JacobsOctober 21, 2021AP27

Papua New Guinea politics and development have become a focus for Australia in light of...

Aid no place for preaching pop stars
Helen HughesNovember 20, 2006The Australian

Young people are understandably concerned that 50 years into the most rapid improvements in living...

China: Death of the Dragon?
John LeeNovember 14, 2006The New Matilda

In his final press conference as Chinese Premier in March 2003, Zhu Rongji confidently declared...

States’ tax system is deficient
Robert CarlingNovember 8, 2006The Australian Financial Review

The recent focus of Commonwealth-state relations on policy coordination in pursuit of improved productivity and...

Why Guestworker Scheme is ‘Uneconomic’
Helen Hughes, Gaurav SodhiNovember 1, 2006Islands Business

Dr Wadan Narsey (Islands Business October 2006) insulted Australia by implying that its unwillingness to...

Let the schools choose which accredited curriculum to teach
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 30, 2006The Canberra Times

The idea of a national curriculum has been on the federal government agenda for several...

A warrior in the battle of ideas
Greg Lindsay AOOctober 27, 2006The Sydney Morning Herald

Lord (Ralph) Harris of High Cross was the last of a number of extraordinary individuals...

Indigenous Voting Rights in Australia
Neenah Robyn GrayNovember 21, 2022
CIS Research Assistant Neenah Gray discusses the voting rights of Indigenous Australians....
Indigenous Citizenship in Australia
Neenah Robyn GrayNovember 16, 2022
CIS Research Assistant Neenah Gray discusses Indigenous Citizenship in Australia....
Standing firm against identity politics
Mary Eberstadt, Peter KurtiNovember 10, 2022
American essayist, novelist, and author Mary Eberstadt joined Peter Kurti, Director of the CIS Culture,...
On Liberty EP103 Migrant communities in Australia
Ms Melissa Monteiro, Glenn FaheyNovember 9, 2022On Liberty
Guest host Glenn Fahey returns to discuss challenges facing new immigrants to Australia with Melissa...
Building world-class schools in Australia
Katharine Birbalsingh, Alan Tudge, Glenn Fahey, Manisha GazulaNovember 7, 2022
CIS Education program director Glenn Fahey is joined for a discussion on improving schools in...
On Liberty EP102 2022 Federal Budget Recap Part 2
Simon Cowan, John KehoeNovember 2, 2022On Liberty
Guest host Simon Cowan reenters the budget bunker to discuss the second federal budget in...
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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