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Reflections on Privatisation
Roderick DeaneMarch 3, 1991OP32

Although privatisation of state-owned enterprises made great progress in New Zealand and elsewhere throughout the...

Aid and Development in the South Pacific
Peter T. BauerFebruary 5, 1991PP02

The political economy of the South Pacific is dominated by foreign aid. This promotes domestic...

Economics 91
Tim RileyDecember 21, 1990SP1991

The ECONOMICS ’91 Conference served two purposes. First, it attempted to break down state barriers...

Unravelling Intervention in the Wool Industry
Alistair WatsonNovember 10, 1990PM17

Marketing arrangements for wool have recently been under enormous strain. Both the supply of wool...

Voluntary Welfare A Greater Role for Private Charities
Alistair WatsonOctober 4, 1990PM16

Despite the rise of the welfare state, the private charities continue to flourish and to...

The Inequity of ‘Pay Equity’. Comparable worth policy in New Zealand
Penelope J BrookAugust 1, 1990NZPP1

In New Zealand as in many other Western countries, pressure for women’s groups has increased...

When an apple is not simply an apple
Phil RennieJanuary 12, 2007The Otago Times

If there’s one thing Australia is bad at, it’s losing. This applies to trade just...

Better medicine for all in single-source funding
Nick CoatsworthJanuary 10, 2007The Australian

So the Rudd-Gillard plan to reform federal-state relations in health is going into risky territory....

Palmed off and abused
Helen HughesJanuary 8, 2007The Courier Mail

The Mulrunji case did not start in the Palm Island police station. It is a...

Charting a course for legal disaster
Benjamin JellisJanuary 4, 2007The Australian

American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes once described law as the “calling of thinkers”. An unfortunate...

What would Hayek say?
Greg Lindsay AODecember 29, 2006

In the past month, Australian intellectual life has been made somewhat livelier by a sideshow...

Wrapped in red tape and denied the flexibility to grow
John ClearyDecember 29, 2006The Australian

In the Northern Territory and Western Australia, policymakers and advisers are acknowledging what the residents...

CIS Executive Director Tom Switzer’s interview with Professor Mearsheimer on ABC Radio Nationa, john mershiemer, tom switzer, russia, ukraiin, australia
John Mearsheimer: Will Israel and Ukraine derail the US pivot to Asia
John MearsheimerOctober 26, 2023
CIS Executive Director Tom Switzer’s interview with Professor Mearsheimer on ABC Radio National....
Annual Gala Dinner and John Bonython Lecture 2023
Jason Riley, Tom SwitzerSeptember 1, 2023

The Soul of Black Conservatism Jason Riley is a columnist at the Wall Street Journal,...

The State Of American Politics and Discourse
Tom Switzer, Jason RileyAugust 24, 2023

On Monday, 31 July our 2023 John Bonython lecturer, Jason Riley and Naomi Schaefer Riley,...

John Howard OM AC: From the Pavilion Book Launch
John Howard OM AC, Andrew Blyth, Tom SwitzerAugust 18, 2023
On Tuesday, 18 July, we celebrated the launch of John Howard: From the Pavilion (Connor...
The New Superannuation Tax Targets Your Savings
Robert CarlingJuly 30, 2023
Complex tax changes always have unintended consequences, but in this case it is difficult to...
A million extra homes won’t fix housing affordability!
Maya KuranaJuly 23, 2023
The budget's announcement of one million houses over the next five years will do very...
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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