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From Measuring to Merely Meeting: Productivity Commission misses mark on Closing the Gap
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOMay 16, 2024PP57
Why, despite decades of expenditure on Aboriginal affairs, do solutions to ‘Closing the Gap’ in...
Impact of a Shadow Carbon Price on our Electricity Bills
Michael Wu , Aidan Morrison, Alex Bainton, Zoe HiltonMay 9, 2024AP68
This paper estimates that including VER as a class of market benefit could enable the...
The six fundamental flaws underpinning the energy transition
Zoe Hilton, Aidan Morrison, Alex Bainton, Michael Wu May 2, 2024AP67
This paper focuses on the question of how Australians have been led to believe two...
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From ANZUS to AUKUS: Howard’s Legacy in Shaping Australia’s Defence Strategy
Andrew BlythApril 18, 2024AP66

The transition from the foundational ANZUS Treaty to the innovative AUKUS partnership signifies a watershed...

How to Build Low-Cost Nuclear: Lessons from the world
Aidan MorrisonApril 11, 2024AP65
In practice, the cost of nuclear energy depends on policy choices about how a nuclear...
The Truth About The Tax Burden
Robert CarlingApril 4, 2024PP56
While the focus is usually on income tax paid to the federal government, the reality...
Lack of GPs and other great health debate myths
Jeremy SammutFebruary 29, 2008Crikey

The prime minister and his health minister must now realise how hard is the task...

The politics of the big number
Robert CarlingFebruary 27, 2008The Australian Financial Review

True or false? The Commonwealth budget surplus is $62 billion. The Prime Minister’s salary is...

Strangers in their own land – An extract
Helen HughesFebruary 27, 2008The Australian

Two teenager girls from East Arnhem Land undergo a ten-week educational marathon in Sydney with...

Effective teachers where they are needed most
Kirsten StorryFebruary 25, 2008Online Opinion

The central and essential part of an education revolution will not be laptop computers for...

Fare go: WA just needs more taxis on the road
February 25, 2008The West Australian

Heard the one about the one about the service industry that doesn’t provide a service?...

Let local Indigenous communities decide who comes and goes
Sara HudsonFebruary 21, 2008The Australian

THE Rudd Government's legislation to restore the permit system for access to indigenous settlements in...

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...

The Impact of the Shadow Carbon Price
Karla PincottJuly 1, 2024What You Need to Know About

The federal, state and territory Energy Ministers have introduced a shadow carbon price for the...

The Art of Opposition
Tom Switzer, Andrew Blyth, John Howard OM ACJuly 1, 2024

Oppositions hold governments to account, raise issues of public concern, represent aggrieved citizens, propose alternative...

Is the market more efficient than the government? | Robert Carling
Robert Forsyth, Robert CarlingJuly 1, 2024Liberalism in Question

#auspol #freemarket #economics Robert Carling is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies....

The six fundamental flaws underpinning the energy transition
Karla Pincott, Aidan MorrisonJuly 1, 2024What You Need to Know About

The Australian Government wants to transition our electricity system to net zero carbon emissions by...

Being a Rational Optimist in a Woke World | Matthew Ridley
Robert Forsyth, Matt RidleyMay 7, 2024Liberalism in Question

Matthew Ridley is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He is known for his...

How to Build Low-Cost Nuclear: Lessons from the world
Aidan MorrisonApril 13, 2024Research Collection

How to Build Low-Cost Nuclear: Lessons from the world by Aidan Morrision. First published on...

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