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Islands must act or face up to disaster
Stephan FreitagOctober 26, 2006The Australian Financial Review

The triangular tiff that has engulfed the Pacific Forum has far greater implications for the...

Tough love for the jobless
Peter SaundersOctober 26, 2006The Australian

Human services Minister, Joe Hockey, thinks a majority of unemployed people receiving Newstart Allowance are...

Burdens of Low Pay
Joel ButlerOctober 23, 2006The Courier Mail

The new Australian Fair Pay Commission is due soon to release its first minimum wage...

Fertile ground for born-again Muslims
Miranda DarlingOctober 23, 2006The Canberra Times

A militant Islamist ideology is feeding on the anger of young men all over the...

Economics spats grow deeper amid endemic corruption in Pacific
October 23, 2006The Courier Mail

Ever since the Howard government embarked on a more assertive approach toward the Pacific with...

Funding for indigenous communities still not finding targets
Helen HughesOctober 20, 2006The Canberra Times

The funding intended to help Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders does not reach most of...

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...
Outsmart Your Brain | Daniel Willingham | Glenn Fahey
Glenn Fahey, Mr Daniel WillinghamMay 8, 2023
Outsmart Your Brain...
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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