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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

VAD
With VAD, our fear of death has been perpetuated
Simon Cowan, Jessica BorbasiNovember 4, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

One of the most unfortunate aspects of the debate around Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) is...

John Mearsheimer: ABC interview excerpts
John MearsheimerOctober 23, 2023ABC Radio Queensland

While in Australia with the Centre for Independent Studies, John Mearsheimer took time to speak...

Lesson school teach maths
Things to learn from the Voice to Parliament referendum
Simon CowanOctober 21, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

In the wake of the Indigenous Voice referendum failure, much has been written about why...

Loudest ‘voice’ in all interest groups is for more government spending
Simon CowanOctober 16, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

Regardless of whether you think the Voice has any merit, there is surely some merit...

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Why identity politics lost big in Australia
Tom SwitzerOctober 15, 2023NATIONAL REVIEW

On Saturday October 14, Australians defeated a ballot initiative that would have changed the Constitution...

How to turn around Australian kids’ appalling classroom behaviour
Glenn FaheyOctober 2, 2023AFR

The dismal state of student behaviour has long been the elephant in the classroom. To...

Multiculturalism & the Fetish of Diversity – Peter Kurti
December 9, 2013
Deirdre McCloskey – John Bonython Lecture 2013
December 8, 2013
Cautiously Optimistic: Bourgeois Dignity & Global Prosperity
Deidre McCloskeyDecember 8, 2013

The Centre for Independent Studies’ 2013 John Bonython Lecture(JBL) was given by Professor Deirdre McCloskey,...

Emergency Budget Repair Kit
November 22, 2013
Joe Hockey Speech – “The Task Ahead”
November 14, 2013
Efraim Inbar in conversation on the Middle East
November 6, 2013
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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