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The Limits of Australian Anti-discrimination Law
August 3, 2016Research Report 17

Anti-discrimination law has existed in Australia for only fifty years, and yet in that comparatively...

domestic violence
Homeland Truths: The Unspoken Epidemic of Violence in Indigenous Communities
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJuly 25, 2016OP148

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s speech is a powerful personal plea to stop the violence against women...

The High Court, Democracy and Same Sex Marriage
July 19, 2016OP147

The High Court in 2013 overturned the understanding of marriage in the Marriage Act 1961...

The Democratic Deficit: How Minority Fundamentalism Threatens Liberty in Australia
July 12, 2016Research Report 16

We are faced with a new kind of fundamentalism – call it ‘minority fundamentalism.’ It...

Society is Broken
June 20, 2016OP146

With experience as a prison doctor and psychiatrist, Theodore Dalrymple decries the impact of the...

The Role of Think Tanks: A Reply to the Critics
June 13, 2016OP145

Because their aims are educational and democratic, what think tanks do and why they do...

Key issues at heart of political divide
August 31, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

While it is impossible to separate the political events not only of last week but...

The storm in the inequality teacup
August 31, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The idea that economic inequality is a problem — and an increasing one — demanding...

The continuing political crisis
August 24, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

As Australia welcomes its sixth prime ministership in nearly eight years, observers might be forgiven...

Everything falls before politics
August 24, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Big businesses in Australia will not be getting their small tax cuts eight years in...

Curbing Corporate Social Responsibility
August 24, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

A current school of thought urges a legal approach to stop public companies becoming involved...

Anning is a Senator because of democratic will, not in spite of it
August 18, 2018SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

In all the furore over Fraser Anning’s appalling maiden speech, a number of people have...

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