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Welfare State and the Problem of the Common
David ThomsonDecember 20, 1992OP43

Modern welfare states involve large –scale pooling of risks and resources by peoples of different...

Advertising Bans: Administrative Decisions or Matters of Principle?
John GrayDecember 1, 1992OP42

Whereas in modern times artistic and cultural freedoms have expanded, freedom of commercial expression has...

How Much Justice does a Society Need?
Kenneth MinogueNovember 15, 1992OP40

Hard-headed people often say that perfect justice is impossible, merely a dream. the philosopher Kant...

Why I Am Not a Conservative
F.A. HayekNovember 2, 1992OP41

Liberals who uphold the idea of a free society in which both economic and civil...

Criminal Choice. The Economic Theory of Crime
Cathy BuchananNovember 1, 1992PM24

In the past 20 years, crime has increased dramatically in Australia. Burglary rates are higher...

From Welfare State to Welfare Society
Michael JamesJuly 1, 1992OP38

The legitimacy of the welfare state has survived the shift in recent years towards smaller...

A public holiday for a cancelled event? You can’t get much more corona-crazy
Scott PrasserAugust 9, 2021Spectator

Those south of the Queensland border may have heard of the Brisbane Exhibition — or...

Myanmar Coup – a turning point for the Rohingya people
Anjali NadaradjaneAugust 4, 2021Epoch Times

The coup d’état in Myanmar earlier this year, may have dismantled the fragile foundations of...

Labor’s tax backflip poses a bigger question: Why is treating people equally is increasingly seen as unfair?
Simon CowanJuly 31, 2021Canberra Times

Labor has formally announced it will abandon many of the tax policies it took to...

Protesting Harsh Restrictions Doesn’t Necessarily Make You an Anarchist
Peter KurtiJuly 30, 2021Epoch Times

Lockdown opponents took to the streets of Sydney’s CBD in late July, in defiance of...

Labor’s Landmark Tax Reversals Are Welcome, but Budget Deficits Now Look Enshrined
Robert CarlingJuly 30, 2021Epoch Times

Sidelined by this week’s news of gold medals in Tokyo, and an expanding COVID-19 outbreak...

As JobKeeper calls get louder, PM must be cautious
Robert CarlingJuly 26, 2021Financial Review

Just as Sydney was sinking deeper into the morass of a lockdown and Victoria was...

Diplomatic: A Washington Memoir Book Launch
Joe Hockey, James Morrow, Simon CowanApril 21, 2022
CIS welcomed former Treasurer and Australian Ambassador to the US Joe Hockey to launch his...
On Liberty EP86 What is Xi Jinping’s real agenda for China?
Elizabeth Larus, Salvatore BabonesApril 13, 2022On Liberty

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping will soon be appointed to a third term as...

Australia’s Universities: Can They Reform?
Salvatore Babones, Simon Haines, Glenn FaheyApril 11, 2022
Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation CEO Professor Simon Haines launches author and CIS adjunct scholar...
On Liberty EP85 Hate speech and the definition of ‘gender’
James Allan, Salvatore BabonesApril 6, 2022On Liberty

On Liberty talks to Prof James Allan of the University of Queensland. In his latest...

Raging against the Past: Why apologise for history?
Lord Sumption, Peter KurtiApril 5, 2022

CIS research fellow Peter Kurti speaks to distinguished British judge and historian, Lord Sumption about...

On Liberty EP84 2022 Federal Budget Recap
Mikayla Novak, Simon CowanMarch 30, 2022On Liberty

As this year’s election looms, the 2022 federal budget maybe the last chance the federal...

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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