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Social Justice, Socialism and Democracy: Three Australian Lectures

F.A. HayekJanuary 5, 1979OP2

“The term “social justice” is today generally used as a synonym of what used to...

Liberty, Equality and Unhappiness

Lauchlan ChipmanSeptember 26, 1978OP1

The first in the series of Occasional Papers. Professor Chipman uses in experience in the...

Wage-Price Control: Myth and Reality

Sudha R. Shenoy, Samuel Brittan, Michael R. Darby, Lee Eckermann, Malcolm Fisher, Milton Friedman, C. Jackson Grayson, Horst Mendershausen, Michael Parkin, Peter Samuel, Robert SchuettingerFebruary 1, 1978R1

The Centre for Independent Studies was set up with the object of providing a stream...

G8 loses way to point of nothing.

Oliver Marc HartwichJuly 7, 2009Camberra Times

A hectic sequence of state banquets, photo opportunities, and diplomatic excitement followed by a declaration...

Foreign Policy: Why Beijing Needs To Be Brutal

John LeeJuly 6, 2009Foreign Policy

After scolding the West for interfering in the internal affairs of Iran, Beijing’s public relations...

China’s Empty Land Reform

John LeeJuly 4, 2009Guardian

Recently, Beijing announced new procedures to ‘give an effective guarantee’ to rural citizens that their...

The road to Hawks Nest started back in the Seventies

Jeremy SammutJuly 3, 2009

The establishment of government-run child protection authorities staffed by university-trained social workers in the 1970s...

Are pensioners really impoverished?

July 3, 2009

The OECD this week released a report that claimed that one in four Australian pensioners...

Better protection is needed for vulnerable children

Jeremy SammutJuly 3, 2009The Newcastle Herald

The conviction of the Hawk Nest couple accused of starving their daughter to death again...

Antisemitism Is Not a Jewish Problem, It’s an Australian Problem | Frydenberg, Finlay & Sackville

Peter Kurti, Michael Stutchbury, Josh Frydenberg, Lorraine Finlay, Ronald Sackville AO KCApril 10, 2026

Michael Stutchbury, Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Studies, opens this panel discussion with...

Australia’s Hate Speech Failure | Dimitri Burshtein

Dimitri BurshteinMarch 31, 2026

The tragic events at Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025 expose a deepening crisis in...

Behind Every Great Teacher Is a Great System | David Didau, Jenny Donovan & Trisha Jha

Trisha Jha, David Didau, Jenny DonovanMarch 20, 2026

David Didau — education consultant, teacher trainer, and author of Making Kids Cleverer and Intelligent...

Housing, handouts, and the Collapse of the Australian Dream

Parnell McGuinnessMarch 19, 2026

Over the past several decades, Australian society has undergone profound economic, social, and cultural change....

“The 50% discount is unfair” and other CGT myths | Robert Carling & Michael Stutchbury

Robert Carling, Michael StutchburyMarch 11, 2026

The criticisms and characterization of the 50% capital gains tax discount over many years have...

The Case for Optimism: More People, More Ideas, More Wealth | Marian Tupy

Marian L. Tupy, Michael StutchburyMarch 6, 2026

Marian Tupy — editor of HumanProgress.org, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and co-author of...