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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

Scrap this outdated fee
Andrew NortonMarch 23, 2005The Australian
Fix policies to make housing affordable
Peter SaundersMarch 16, 2005

The house price bubble has finally burst. While it lasted, the boom added substantially to...

New deal for communities
Helen HughesMarch 1, 2005The Courier Mail

Third World unemployment, welfare dependence, housing, ill health and violence in remote communities contrast starkly...

Coombs’ tragic legacy
Helen HughesMarch 1, 2005The Australian Financial Review

In reviewing the Community Development Employment Program the federal government has hopefully taken a first...

Welfare shake-up is long overdue
Peter SaundersFebruary 24, 2005The Australian

Forty years ago, fewer than one in 30 working-age adults relied on welfare payments as...

Iraq adventure is rich in dangerous precedents
Owen HarriesFebruary 21, 2005The Sydney Morning Herald

To a remarkable degree, the debate over Iraq has been conducted in moral terms. President...

The Skeptical Environmentalist
Bjorn LomborgFebruary 14, 2020

The world’s governments have picked 169 well-meaning targets, promising everything to everyone. But too many...

2020 Iowa Caucus Elections, confusion and delays. Trump claims victory.
Doug Bandow, April Palmerlee, Stephen Loosley, Gorana Grgic, Tom SwitzerFebruary 5, 2020

Many seasoned experts of American politics believe Donald Trump is the most vulnerable first-term president...

Revitalising the Australian Economy
Andrew Stone, Tony Abbott, Paul Kelly, Tom SwitzerJanuary 29, 2020

To launch Restoring Hope: Practical Policies to Revitalise the Australian Economy by Andrew Stone, CIS...

Changing the Debate around Australian Indigenous Policy
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO, Anthony Dillon, Chris KennyJanuary 24, 2020

Changing the Debate; Our expert panel comprised of CIS’s Indigenous Program director, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price,...

The 2019 CIS Nanny Awards
Steven Schwartz, Tom SwitzerDecember 11, 2019

The 2019 CIS Nanny Awards take a look back at the year’s best and most...

Is there more to life than politics?
John Howard OM AC, Richard Alston, Tom SwitzerDecember 9, 2019

On Thursday, 5 December we launched Richard Alston’s new book, More to Life than Politics...

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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