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Our media releases, opinion pieces, commentary, videos and audio podcasts are available in this section. Our experts are able to comment on a range of policy areas amd issues. Please contact our Communications Director, Karla Pincott via phone 0407 716 752 or email kpincott@cis.org.au

Equalising People: Why Social Justice Threatens Liberty
David GreenDecember 1, 1991OP37

Socialists of all parties have learned to live with markets because they want the prosperity...

Bougainville: The Mine and the People
Paul QuodlingOctober 4, 1991PP03

In Paul Quodling’s judgement, the two issues of the political conflict on Bougainville and the...

Dismantling Socialism: A Preliminary Report
Vaclav KlausAugust 5, 1991OP35

In the eighth John Bonython Lecture, Václav Klaus, Finance Minister of Czechoslovakia, gives an account...

Liberating Labour: The Case for Freedom of Contract in Labour Relations
Michael JamesAugust 5, 1991OP36

Although the case against centralised wage-fixing has won increasing support in recent years, many reservations...

Cut! Protection of Australia’s Film and Television Industries
Ross JonesJuly 7, 1991PM18

The Australian film and television industry has received large subsidies over the last 20 years...

No Waiting. Ideas for Improving Sydney’s Bus Services
Tony SorensenJuly 1, 1991PM20

A battle is being waged on a landscape that is much closer to home than...

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...

Q&A – Peter Saunders – Debunking the equality myth: A critique of ‘The Spirit Level’
June 15, 2011
Q&A – Peter Saunders – Debunking the equality myth: A critique of ‘The Spirit Level’
June 15, 2011
Peter Saunders – Debunking the equality myth: A critique of ‘The Spirit Level’
June 10, 2011
Peter Saunders – Debunking the equality myth: A critique of ‘The Spirit Level’
June 10, 2011
Andrew Norton
May 30, 2011
Luke Malpass NZ Budget Q&A
May 25, 2011
How loss of cheap energy pressures wage system | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyNovember 27, 2025

You can listen to The Stutchbury Sessions on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM or listen...

Dark Forces at Work? Sir Frank Lowy on the Return of Antisemitism | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyOctober 10, 2025Liberalism in Question

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Iron, Ideas, and Abundance: Supply Side Mistakes and Lessons | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 26, 2025

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Why Australians Vote for Big Government | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 19, 2025

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Our Prosperity is Slipping Away | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 16, 2025

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Protests, Polarisation and Immigration | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 15, 2025

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