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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

The impossible goal of “Covid Zero”
Peter KurtiAugust 25, 2021First Things

In 1901, Australia’s six colonies united in a single Commonwealth, marking the emergence of a...

It could be 2022 by the time we see the full impact on our kids’ education
Glenn FaheyAugust 25, 2021Daily Telegraph

Parents, educators, and policymakers will be relieved by new NAPLAN results showing NSW students are...

Could Canada’s Vaccine Rollout Success Show Australia the Way out of Lockdowns
Robert CarlingAugust 23, 2021The Epoch Times

After a slow start, vaccination rates have accelerated strongly in Australia, with 6,240,640 Aussies now...

Australian education is not keeping up
Glenn FaheyAugust 22, 2021Canberra Times

For too long, education policy and practice has failed to keep pace with the evidence....

One Nation No Longer Indivisible
Barry MaleyAugust 20, 2021Quadrant

Australia depends upon the United States for our defence in the event of a confrontation...

Postponing day of reckoning in Afghanistan would not change a thing
August 18, 2021The Australian

The debacle in Afghanistan evokes the old saw that the road to hell is paved...

Women in Politics
Eugenie JosephJanuary 31, 2019

Our panel of speakers thrashed out the issues surrounding women in politics. Are setting affirmative-action...

Political correctness and its discontents
Brendan O'Neill, Jeremy SammutJanuary 13, 2019

Join Brendan O’Neill, one of Britain’s quirkiest, wittiest and liveliest commentators, in conversation with Jeremy...

The 2018 CIS Nanny Awards
Steven SchwartzDecember 13, 2018

The 2018 CIS Nanny Awards take a look back at the year’s best and most...

The Crisis of Democracy
Janet AlbrechtsenNovember 23, 2018

For generations, we just assumed democracy is fixed and given. However, all across the world,...

Bill McMahon, an eccentric economic reformer?
Paul Kelly, John Howard OM ACNovember 21, 2018

William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics. Was...

Individualism and the Paradox of Affirmative Action
Daniel HannanNovember 16, 2018

Daniel Hannan is a leading British writer and journalist. After 17 years as a Member...

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