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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...

Hospital ‘crisis’ signals health challenges ahead
Jeremy SammutOctober 25, 2007The Newcastle Herald

Pre-election promises to ‘fix’ the public hospital system count for little when politicians lack the...

Capital flows the wrong way in China
John LeeOctober 25, 2007The Australian Financial Review

China has recently indicated that it intends to move away from an investment-driven growth strategy...

The danger of pursuing ‘Harmony’ in Chinese foreign policy
John LeeOctober 24, 2007The Canberra Times

The recently concluded five-yearly congress in Beijing reaffirmed two things. First, President Hu Jintao is...

Cash could be better spent outside daycare
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 23, 2007The Australian

However, a more careful reading of the research reveals that the evidence base of many...

A contrarian view of the economic miracle
Sheila MelvinOctober 22, 2007South China Morning Post

In Will China Fail? The Limits and Contradictions of Market Socialism, author John Lee takes...

China’s syndrome of lawless growth
John LeeOctober 20, 2007The Australian

One of the writers who best understood the phenomenon of totalitarianism in the 20th century,...

Professor James Allan – The Job of Judges in Democratic Societies
March 24, 2011
Craig Emerson MP at the CIS
March 18, 2011
How! Not How Much: Medicare Spending and Health Resource Allocation in Australia
March 14, 2011
Jessica Brown – Indonesia’s Strategic Role in a Changing Southeast Asia
March 6, 2011
Malaysian Dilemma: The Enduring Cancer of Affirmative Action with Dr John Lee
February 20, 2011
Tax, Borrow, Spend: How the States Compare – Robert Carling
February 15, 2011
How loss of cheap energy pressures wage system | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyNovember 27, 2025

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Dark Forces at Work? Sir Frank Lowy on the Return of Antisemitism | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyOctober 10, 2025Liberalism in Question

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Iron, Ideas, and Abundance: Supply Side Mistakes and Lessons | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 26, 2025

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Why Australians Vote for Big Government | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 19, 2025

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Our Prosperity is Slipping Away | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 16, 2025

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Protests, Polarisation and Immigration | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 15, 2025

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