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2025 Neville Kennard Address: The Dire Plight of the Mainstream Right
October 27, 2025OP210

This is an edited version of the speech given to the 2025 CIS Consilium event...

2025 John Bonython Lecture: The Axis of Autocracy – New World Disorder
October 16, 2025OP209
Far from it being the end of history, the story of this century so far...
An economic walk on the supply side
October 16, 2025OP208

This is an edited version of Michael Stutchbury’s keynote address to the 2025 Freedom to...

Drawing the Line: Moral Conflict and the Fragility of Liberal Tolerance
October 9, 2025AP90
Liberal democracies face an unprecedented challenge: how to govern societies where citizens no longer disagree...
The Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
October 2, 2025AP89
The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the...
Our Prosperity is Slipping Away: Submission to Economic Reform Roundtable 
August 18, 2025AP87

 Introduction As Reserve Bank deputy governor Andrew Hauser noted last year, it can be...

A Solution Worse Than the Disease
Monica WilkieApril 22, 2021Quadrant Online

The discussion about what should and should not be ‘allowed’ on social media has been,...

Cancel culture is destroying our society
April 16, 2021The Australian

As we approach the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, and the wave of...

States spoil Australia’s school scorecard
Glenn FaheyApril 14, 2021Financial Review

Arresting Australia’s educational decline calls for national leadership. And federal Education Minister Alan Tudge, has...

Biden’s global minimum tax is a trap for mobile capital
Robert CarlingApril 13, 2021Financial Review

If taxation is an enigma to all but tax experts, then global corporate tax is...

Captain America versus… Jordan Peterson?
Monica WilkieApril 12, 2021Spectator

The progressives’ latest offering of ‘woker-tainment’ shows they are more interested in political posturing than...

A democracy must protect pluralism at all costs
April 10, 2021Canberra Times

The NSW government has just released its discussion paper on social media companies’ liability for...

GST carve-up does not reward state reform excerpt
October 25, 2016
Getting Privatisation Right
October 12, 2016
Market Freedom
September 21, 2016
Trump, Brexit and the Forgotten People
August 26, 2016
Dangerous State of the Nation
August 12, 2016
About CIS
August 10, 2016
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