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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

Reason, Repentance, and the Individual: Recovering the Religious Roots of Western Civilisation
November 23, 2017OP160

Reason, repentance, and the individual are three of the principal roots of Western civilization. They...

Life Before Death: Improving Palliative Care for Older Australians
November 19, 2017RR34

The notion that the problems associated with modern death and dying can be solved simply...

Resetting the Pendulum: Balanced, Effective, Accountable Child Protection Systems and Adoption Reform in Australia
November 11, 2017RR33

The national significance of the NSW child protection and adoption reforms cannot be overstated. The...

The History Wars Matter
November 8, 2017OP159

Despite what the post-modern theorists claim, the nation remains the ultimate political reality. The power...

UBI – Universal Basic Income is an Unbelievably Bad Idea
November 5, 2017RR32

The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), paid by the government to its citizens...

Impact Investing: harnessing capital markets to solve societal problems
October 25, 2017OP158

In the post GFC environment, with the risk and return matrix and reputation risk to...

Pathways to mediocrity
Monica WilkieMarch 12, 2020IDEAS@THECENTRE

Merit is under attack – again. The University of Technology Sydney now offers 10 bonus...

Moral hazard run amok
Salvatore BabonesMarch 12, 2020IDEAS@THECENTRE

Many Australians are rightly concerned about the health risks posed by arrival of the coronavirus...

Joe Biden is back from the dead, but there are twists and turns ahead
March 9, 2020Sydney Morning Herald

So much for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous claim that there are no second acts in...

Let the penalty fit the crime
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceMarch 9, 2020The Australian

In November 2018, a seven-year-old girl was savagely raped by a man in the toilet...

A wellbeing budget won’t help a sickly economy
Glenn FaheyMarch 9, 2020Spectator

There’s a concerted effort to shift the focus of economics away from financial data towards...

Here we Gonski again
March 5, 2020IDEAS@THECENTRE

Australian education is still paying the price of bad, expensive ideas from previous reviews. Let’s...

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