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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

Cautious route on a poll-driven tax bandwagon
July 23, 2004The Canberra Times

If opinion polls are to be believed, most voters are now willing to reject tax...

Support for spending spree won’t last forever
July 22, 2004The Australian

AT budget time, newspaper commentators puzzled over why, with polls showing voters preferred more health...

Best and brightest can afford to pay more
July 19, 2004The Australian Financial Review

Natasha Stott Despoja is never slow to make the case against higher education contribution scheme...

An end to benign neglect
Helen HughesJuly 15, 2004The Australian

INCREASING aid to Papua New Guinea to more than $425 million for 2004-05 will enable...

Only internal reform can rescue a stagnant PNG
Helen HughesJuly 15, 2004The Canberra Times

PAPUA New Guinea's GDP growth, with good weather and high mineral export prices, is still...

Ramshackle propaganda exercise ignores reality
Peter SaundersJuly 13, 2004The Australian Financial Review

Francis Sullivan (chief executive of Catholic Health Australia) says Australia is facing a huge and...

An Ounce Of Prevention
February 18, 2015
Fairness is a complex concept
February 17, 2015
Fairness is a complex concept
February 17, 2015
Fairness is a complex concept (Media edit)
February 16, 2015
Fairness is a complex concept (Media edit)
February 16, 2015
EU and Ukraine – Russia standoff
February 13, 2015
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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