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The Constitutional Challenge
Michael James, G.S. Reid, D.J. Hamer, Anthony Rutherford, John Hyde, Campbell Sharman, James M. Buchanan, Philip Clark, Geoffrey de Quincey WalkerJuly 1, 1982R4

The Readings series of the Centre for Independent Studies was established to analyse certain issues...

The Politics of Multiculturalism
Raymond SestitoJune 4, 1982PM3

People of other than Anglo-Saxon origin are actively encouraged by the state to preserve their...

Rationalising Rustic Regulation
Ted SieperFebruary 26, 1982RS2

A landmark discussion of agricultural policy in Australia. Written in 1982, Ted Sieper asks ‘who...

A New Financial Revolution? An International Review of the Campbell Report
Malcolm Fisher, Michael ParkinFebruary 1, 1982R3

When the Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Australian Financial System (the...

Lessons from the Ord
B.R. DavidsonJanuary 1, 1982PM2

Readers will draw their own various conclusions from these two modest but compelling essays. It...

Liberty, Justice and the Market
Lauchlan ChipmanSeptember 26, 1981OP6

Professor Chipman challenges some views which have become orthodox in academic and intellectual circles and...

Ready, Set, Fire—Federal Budget Signals Upcoming Aussie Election Spending Spree
Robert CarlingMay 17, 2021The Epoch Times

There can be no doubt that the 2021-22 Australian federal budget announced last week was...

Will the last economic rationalists in the room please turn off the lights?
Simon CowanMay 8, 2021Canberra Times

Last year was extraordinary, in many respects. And last year’s budget wasn’t even in the...

Is a royal commission the best way to tackle veterans’ suicides?
Scott PrasserMay 5, 2021Spectator

The announcement by the Morrison Government to appoint a royal commission into the suicides of...

National curriculum must ditch politics for evidence
Glenn FaheyMay 3, 2021Sydney Morning Herald

As the dust settles on proposed changes to the national curriculum, gears must shift from...

Alarm bells ring on fiscal changes
Robert CarlingApril 30, 2021Conservative Daily News

The ranks of fiscal conservatives may be dwindling, but the reasons to be alarmed at...

Budget should abolish low-income tax offset by bringing forward cuts
Robert CarlingApril 25, 2021Financial Review

With two weeks to go to the budget, the informed reports, rumours and speculation have...

Australia’s China Policy Debate
Salvatore Babones, Satya Marar, Peter Hartcher, Yidi Yan, Frank Yuan, Chanum Torres, Yun Jiang, Yuki Cheng, Tom SwitzerJune 17, 2021

China’s increasingly repressive rule at home and assertiveness abroad show few signs of moderating as...

On Liberty EP55 The Communist Party in Chinese society
Salvatore Babones, David GoodmanJune 16, 2021On Liberty

With the Australian and Chinese governments arguing in increasingly shrill tones, has Australia really “hurt...

On Liberty EP54 Has ICAC gone too far?
Monica Wilkie, Chris MerrittJune 9, 2021On Liberty

With their sensationalist public questioning of Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s private life the NSW Independent Commission...

On Liberty EP53 Australians reject identity politics
Glenn Fahey, Bella D’AbreraJune 2, 2021On Liberty

We talked to Institute of Public Affairs’ Dr Bella d’Abrera. Speaking with The Australian recently,...

Scaling up success in majority Indigenous schools
Glenn Fahey, Noel Pearson, Alan TudgeJune 2, 2021

One of Australia’s most pressing public-policy challenges is to overcome poor education outcomes suffered by...

On Liberty EP52 Have Postmodern Politics Launched Us on a Ship of Fools?
Salvatore Babones, David Martin JonesMay 26, 2021On Liberty

Did the fall of the Soviet Union usher in the end of history for everyone,...

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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