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Defining Democracy Down: Political Judicialisation, Judicial Politicisation
Helen DaleJuly 21, 2022PP46
The overruling of Roe v Wade by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)...
Radical Conservatism: 
Tradition as a guide for managing change
Damien FreemanJuly 13, 2022OP188
This paper revisits conservative philosopher, Edmund Burke, to distil a “cast of mind” — a...
The Shadow Pandemic: Three reforms for the post-pandemic mental healthcare system
Meegan CornforthJune 29, 2022OP187

The Shadow Pandemic: Three reforms for the post-pandemic mental healthcare system Executive Summary Living through...

Decoding the Gap: Australia’s ongoing struggle to address Indigenous health outcomes
Richard X DaveyJune 2, 2022AP37

This paper outlines the base Indigenous health issues, the key causes, and how they can...

Structural reform of the Reserve Bank of Australia
Peter TulipApril 28, 2022AP36
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) structure makes mistakes likely. This paper outlines the need...
Raging against the past: Guilt, justice, and the postcolonial reformation
Peter KurtiApril 7, 2022AP35

Postcolonial Theory wages relentless campaigns of reformation against Enlightenment conceptions of reason, tolerance, and liberty....

Labor focus is on the wrong health problem
Jeremy SammutSeptember 8, 2007The Newcastle Herald

A Rudd Labor government will spend $220 million to establish "GP super clinics" in regional...

Trade skills lose out to scarfie lifestyle
Phil RennieSeptember 7, 2007The National Business Review

Do we really need so many students, especially when it’s so expensive for both the...

Future medicine only for those who help themselves
Jeremy SammutSeptember 7, 2007The Advertiser

This not only points to ever-greater capacity constraints in public hospitals. It also points to...

Poor way to detect poverty
Peter SaundersSeptember 5, 2007The Australian Finanacial Review

Someone at the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) is forgetting their Aesop. You will...

It’s always a case of another year, another excuse for not slashing Australia’s tax burden
Alex RobsonSeptember 5, 2007The Canberra Times

There is a famous gag in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip in which the very...

Extend a hand to an absent friend
Helen HughesSeptember 4, 2007The Australian

Although Sydney loves a party and gave world winners for the 2000 Olympics and the...

Reflecting Back: John Howard and Alexander Downer on Power, Alliances and Australia
John Howard OM AC, Tony Parkinson, Alexander DownerFebruary 5, 2026
Drawing on their experience during the Howard government, Alexander Downer and former Prime Minister John...
Evidence vs Ideology: Why the Science of Learning Matters?
Doctor Carl Hendrick, Doctor Simon Breakspear, Glenn FaheyJune 26, 2025

As Australian student outcomes decline and education inequality persists, a growing movement is challenging the...

Trump capitalised on the growing divide: Tom Switzer
Tom SwitzerNovember 7, 2024
Donald Trump’s election victory stands as one of the most remarkable political comebacks in modern...
JBL Eberstadt
The Coming Global Depopulation
Nicholas Eberstadt October 13, 2024
What could plunging birth rates mean for Australia?...
In Depth Q&A: Mearsheimer and Varghese disagree on US Grand Strategy, Ukraine, Russia and China.
John Mearsheimer, Peter Varghese, Tom SwitzerNovember 7, 2023

PART 2. Following a lecture from Professor John Mearsheimer in Brisbane on Monday, 23 October....

Israel-Hamas, Ukraine-Russia and China: John Mearsheimer on why the US is in serious trouble!
John MearsheimerOctober 31, 2023

PART 1. Professor John Mearsheimer addressed an audience in Brisbane on Monday, 23 October as...

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