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Crucial Collaboration: The Case for Closer Australia-UK Defence and Security Ties in Light of a Rising China
Tom TugendhatJune 23, 2021PP42

This paper argues that the now is the time to broaden and deepen the Australia-UK...

Cancelling the Culture: Critical Theory and the Chasm of Incoherence
Peter KurtiJune 3, 2021AP22

Critical Theory exerts a significant intellectual hold on the formation of policy and the conduct...

The MMT Hoax
Tony Makin, Gene TunnyMay 27, 2021PP41

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a supposedly new macroeconomic paradigm, but it is essentially a...

Back to Basics: A new model for business creation in remote Indigenous communities
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO, Elizabeth HendersonMay 20, 2021AP21

This paper focuses on a new model to increase the potential for Indigenous business creation...

Indigenous suicide: Finding a catalyst for action
Anthony DillonMay 6, 2021OP180

This paper aims to provide a catalyst for the actions needed to address the crisis...

Does high-rise development damage neighbourhood character?
Peter Tulip, Zachary LaniganApril 29, 2021PP40

Local residents often oppose new high-rise development apartment buildings on the grounds that they would...

Australian State Budgets Serve Up More Debt on the Menu
Robert CarlingJune 29, 2021Epoch Times

The dramatic transformation of Australia’s fiscal landscape by the COVID-19 pandemic has been confirmed by...

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in Senate will be a turning point for Indigenous affairs
Tom SwitzerJune 28, 2021The Australian

The term watershed is often misplaced in politics, but perhaps not so this past weekend....

Treat teaching as a supply-side problem
Glenn FaheyJune 24, 2021Financial Review

Opening up the teaching workforce, rather than tolerating anti-competitive protection of incumbents, is the way...

Why problem-based approaches are not the right answer
Glenn FaheyJune 20, 2021Canberra Times

The draft revised school curriculum’s push to prioritise problem-solving is educationally flawed and will handicap...

Sorry, but ‘Covid-zero’ can’t be our new normal
Simon CowanJune 19, 2021Canberra Times

As Victoria surfaces slowly from its latest lockdown, it’s become increasingly clear just how difficult...

It’s nowhere near curtains for oil
Tom SwitzerJune 15, 2021The Australian

Great efforts are under way to decarbonise the global economy. It’s not just that Western...

On Liberty EP58 Indigenous truth-telling
Glenn Fahey, Anthony DillonJuly 8, 2021On Liberty

We welcome CIS contributor and Australian Catholic University academic, Dr Anthony Dillon. Writing in The...

Desert Voices | NAIDOC Week 2021
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Mark Lockyer, Theresa Napurrurla Price, Dennis Roy Kunoth, Cecilia Alfonso, Bess Nungarrayi Price, Linda Hughes, Nicole Laughton, Nicholas Williams, David Price, Jennifer HubertJuly 6, 2021

For decades, the Centre for Independent Studies has been committed to the study of indigenous...

On Liberty EP57 A new dark age? Identity politics and the threat to civilization
Salvatore Babones, Peter BaldwinJune 30, 2021On Liberty

As Sydney starts another round of lockdown, we are pleased to say we will still...

Overcoming economic, cultural and strategic crises
Tom SwitzerJune 28, 2021

Executive Director, Tom Switzer highlights the achievements of CIS as the financial year draws to...

On Liberty EP56 Can Australia succeed in commercialising science?
Salvatore Babones, Bob GrahamJune 23, 2021On Liberty

Australia does a lot of great science, but has a poor record of translating that...

The State of our Economy
Tom SwitzerJune 19, 2021

Will Canberra’s historic spending blowout lead to an inflation surge, prompting higher interest rates? Where...

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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