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closing the gap
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...
AP66 AUKUS
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...
The mental health system may be making us sicker
Steven SchwartzApril 6, 2026CANBERRA TIMES

Australia has a mental health crisis, but not the one we think. Despite decades of...

Housing negative gearing tax
Reducing the discount would likely not have any lasting impact in lowering house prices
Robert Carling, Michael StutchburyMarch 21, 2026CANBERRA TIMES

Anyone watching the smoke signals from Canberra knows that moves are afoot to try and...

Alarm bells ringing on more interest rate pain
Michael StutchburyMarch 18, 2026DAILY TELEGRAPH
Australians were losing faith that the combination of Labor’s economic policies and the RBA monetary...
Labor’s capital gains tax myths need busting
Robert CarlingMarch 11, 2026DAILY TELEGRAPH

Labor has long held an axe over the capital gains tax 50% discount and negative...

Measuring affordability in time, not dollars paints a different inflation picture
Marian L. TupyMarch 9, 2026CANBERRA TIMES

Even before new Middle East conflict sparked concern about petrol prices, Australia’s latest CPI release...

Blame diagnostic inflation for the NDIS’ $10b Autism bill
Steven SchwartzMarch 5, 2026AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

As recently reported in The Australian Financial Review, autism costs the National Disability Insurance Scheme...

Long Term Unemployment – Jessica Brown
August 18, 2010
Tax Reform – Lateline Business 3 March 2010 -Robert Carling
March 4, 2010
The Fall of the Wall and German Reunification – Oliver Hartwich
November 11, 2009
PJ O’Rourke on the Ten Commandments
July 23, 2009
PJ O’Rourke on “Charming Leftists”
July 20, 2009
What would Adam Smith say?? PJ O’Rourke
June 1, 2009
Liberalism and the ‘Broad Church.’
Robert Forsyth, John Howard OM ACDecember 1, 2020Liberalism in Question

In a wide ranging conversation, Rob chats to former prime minister John Howard AC about...

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