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Opening up — not shuttering — markets will drive Australia’s post-COVID 19 recovery
Joanne TranMarch 15, 2021Spectator

Opening up — not shuttering — markets will drive Australia’s post-COVID 19 recovery. Despite this,...

The war on ‘normal’
Peter KurtiMarch 15, 2021Spectator

The long arm of cancel culture now threatens to reach over the shower screen to...

The challenge COVID-19 has posed to liberalism
Simon CowanMarch 13, 2021Canberra Times

This week marked the one-year anniversary of the WHO declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic. The...

Education reform starts at the end; student outcomes
Glenn FaheyMarch 12, 2021The Australian

It’s taken 20 years to trash the education system, but the newly minted federal Education...

25 years on from Howard’s landslide
Tom SwitzerMarch 12, 2021IDEAS@THECENTRE

Since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, CIS events have been generally confined to the...

Myanmar’s Democracy Worth Saving
Anjali NadaradjaneMarch 12, 2021IDEAS@THECENTRE

For many, the Myanmar coup marked the failure of a democratic experiment. It was a...

On Liberty EP25 Education reforms to boost productivity
Glenn Fahey, Peter AchterstraatSeptember 22, 2020On Liberty

Hosted by CIS Research Fellow, Glenn Fahey. In this webinar, Glenn spoke with Peter Achterstraat...

On Liberty EP24 Red tape and regulation hurt economic growth
Salvatore Babones, Gene TunnySeptember 17, 2020On Liberty

We welcomed Gene Tunny, Founder and Director of Adept Economics. Tunny, with co-author Ben Scott,...

On Liberty EP23 Intellectual entrepreneur and founder of CIS
Salvatore Babones, Greg Lindsay AOSeptember 10, 2020On Liberty

We welcomed founder of CIS Greg Lindsay AO. From a backyard shed in Pennant Hills...

On Liberty EP22 Will we see a democratic China in our lifetime?
Salvatore Babones, Chin JinSeptember 3, 2020On Liberty

we are joined by Dr Chin Jin, president of the Federation for a Democratic China....

On Liberty EP21 Cancel culture will divide us
Salvatore Babones, Peter KurtiAugust 27, 2020On Liberty

Salvatore Babones speaks with Peter Kurti. Peter is Director of Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society...

On Liberty EP20 How the pandemic has accelerated trends
Salvatore Babones, Claire LehmannAugust 20, 2020On Liberty

Salvatore Babones spoke with Claire Lehmann. Claire is Australian journalist and the founding editor of...

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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