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The Resource Rent Tax. A Penality of Risk Taking
John Bowers, Ray BallAugust 16, 1983PM5
Free to Shop
Geoff HogbinMay 18, 1983PM 4

Shopping hours and standards in Australia are far behind those of other countries. The trend...

The Christian and the State
Geoffrey BrennanApril 1, 1983OP7

What should be the nature of social and political action which flows from Christian commitment?...

The Entreprenuer in Society
Barry MaleyApril 1, 1983PF2
The Economics of Bureaucracy and Statutory Authorities
Gordon Tullock, Alistair Watson, Peter Swan AO, Warren HoganMarch 21, 1983PF1

Economists have two quite distinct approaches to the study of government enterprises and regulatory agencies....

The Entrepreneur in Society
Barry Maley, Malcolm Fisher, Michael G, Porter, Neville Kennard, Israel KirznerJanuary 1, 1983PF2

Despite his pivotal role in the marketplace, the entrepreneur has not been accorded a major...

Sydney Harbor Bridge
Omicron: A New Variant and New Hope for Australia
Peter KurtiDecember 3, 2021Epoch Times
As we approach the end of 2021, COVID-19 adds another component in the Greek alphabet...
Naplan
Learning loss of past two decades should be focus of policymakers
Glenn FaheyNovember 28, 2021Canberra Times
School students around the country are finally in exam mode, despite several bids to abandon...
Religious Believers in Australia Get Protections, Not Freedom
Peter KurtiNovember 23, 2021Epoch Times

Time appeared to be running out for the Australian government to deliver on its 2019...

We really don’t want to have to deal with runaway inflation
Simon CowanNovember 20, 2021Canberra Times

Last week it was revealed that US Consumer Price Index rose by more than 6%...

Ties between Delhi and Canberra crucial to Indo-Pacific security
C. Raja MohanNovember 11, 2021Spectator

The relationship between India and Australia has grown rapidly in recent years, underpinned by a...

We’re not the ‘human rights nation’ we thought we were
Simon CowanNovember 5, 2021Canberra Times

As the country celebrates the return of our ‘freedoms’, and promises echo that lockdowns are...

Parental School Choice in Australia
Fiona Mueller, Michael Nuttall, Dallas McInerney, Dianne Giblin, Glenn FaheyNovember 26, 2019

Led by Fiona Mueller, the CIS education program focuses on School Choice and School Funding...

I’ll write what I damn well please
Lionel ShriverSeptember 23, 2019

The John Bonython Lecture is the annual Gala event for the Centre for Independent Studies....

Identity Politics, Political Correctness and #MeToo
Lionel ShriverSeptember 23, 2019

Award winning American author and opinion writer Lionel Shriver delivered this year’s JBL lecture. She...

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo: US-Australia Relations
Mike Pompeo, Marise Payne, Tom SwitzerSeptember 19, 2019

It’s not often that an Australian think tank gets to host the world’s leading diplomat,...

Boris Johnson and British Conservatism
Simon Heffer, Tom SwitzerSeptember 10, 2019

Hear from Simon Heffer, a leading conservative commentator who has known Boris Johnson for three...

Time to get tougher with the PRC?
Jason Yat-sen Li, Anastasia Lin, Salvatore Babones, Private: Sue Windybank – Do not Use – DuplicateAugust 24, 2019

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s increasingly hardline rule at home and growing assertiveness abroad show few...

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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