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The Importance of Teacher Quality
Ken RoweFebruary 28, 2002IA22

The quality of teaching is the single most important influence on students’ academic performance. When...

The Social Foundations of a Free Society
Peter SaundersFebruary 12, 2002OP79

A look at five main areas where current trends may be eroding the free society...

What Governments Can’t Know: The Knowledge Economy and the Market
Lauchlan ChipmanFebruary 4, 2002OP77

Are governments well placed to foster the infusion of different types of complex knowledge to...

Poor Arguments: A Response to the Smith Family Report on Poverty in Australia
Kayoko TsumoriJanuary 16, 2002IA21

A recent Smith Family/NATSEM report claims that poverty in Australia increased during the 1990s and...

Dangerous Protections: How Some Ways of Protecting the Freedom of Religion May Actually Diminish Religious Freedom.
Robert ForsythSeptember 24, 2001OP78

The 2001 Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom delivered by Robert Forsyth. Sometimes efforts to...

Taxing the family : Australia’s forgotten people in the income spectrum
Lucy SullivanAugust 22, 2001PM50

Over the last two decades, the tax burden has shifted from taxpayers without to taxpayers...

Government is no Santa: the costs of stimulus
John HumphreysNovember 30, 0001Online Opinion

The government stimulus might look good now, but the long term consequence will be upward...

Australia’s Hate Speech Failure | Dimitri Burshtein
Dimitri BurshteinMarch 31, 2026

The tragic events at Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025 expose a deepening crisis in...

Behind Every Great Teacher Is a Great System | David Didau, Jenny Donovan & Trisha Jha
Trisha Jha, David Didau, Jenny DonovanMarch 20, 2026

David Didau — education consultant, teacher trainer, and author of Making Kids Cleverer and Intelligent...

Housing, handouts, and the Collapse of the Australian Dream
Parnell McGuinnessMarch 19, 2026

Over the past several decades, Australian society has undergone profound economic, social, and cultural change....

“The 50% discount is unfair” and other CGT myths | Robert Carling & Michael Stutchbury
Robert Carling, Michael StutchburyMarch 11, 2026

The criticisms and characterization of the 50% capital gains tax discount over many years have...

The Case for Optimism: More People, More Ideas, More Wealth | Marian Tupy
Marian L. Tupy, Michael StutchburyMarch 6, 2026

Marian Tupy — editor of HumanProgress.org, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and co-author of...

Old buildings and the housing crisis with Peter Tulip
Peter TulipMarch 4, 2026

Peter Tulip explains how several states have recently overhauled their planning legislation. However, the flaws...

Liberalism as fundamentalism
Robert Forsyth, Gordon MenziesFebruary 1, 2022Liberalism in Question
Rob and Gordon discuss issues arising from Gordon’s 2020 book Western Fundamentalism in which he...
Why liberalism is essential to the arts
Robert Forsyth, Simon Mordant AM AOJanuary 25, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob and Simon discuss how important liberalism is as philosophy of freedom and equality, despite...

Liberalism says No to the Voice to Parliament!
Robert Forsyth, Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOJanuary 18, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob and Warren discuss at length why Warren believes liberalism is good for indigenous Australians,...

Liberalism says Yes to the Voice to Parliament!
Robert Forsyth, Andrew BraggJanuary 11, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob and Andrew discuss some of the provocative ideas in his recent book Buraadja; The...

Liberalism is scepticism of power
Robert Forsyth, Chandran KukathasJanuary 4, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob and Chandran discuss Chandran’s journey from a young socialist to a thoughtful liberal. Chandran...

Liberalism needs conservatism too
Robert Forsyth, Hannes H. GissurarsonDecember 28, 2021Liberalism in Question

Rob and Hannes discuss everything from the pirate radio station he once ran to important...

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