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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

Parents’ perspectives on home-based learning in the covid-19 pandemic
Glenn Fahey, Blaise JosephSeptember 30, 2020AP15

School closures during the covid-19 pandemic temporarily shifted schooling from the classroom to the home....

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RATIONALISING REGULATION: Helping the economy recover from the corona crisis
Gene Tunny, Ben ScottSeptember 23, 2020AP14

Australia’s anachronistic, inconsistent, and excessive regulatory landscape is an area of immense potential for growth-enhancing...

Sacred & Profane: Faith and Belief in a Secular Society
Peter KurtiSeptember 20, 2020

Peter Kurti lifts up the stone on questions that our secular society thought it had...

Australia, the United States and China in a post-Covid world
Richard AlstonSeptember 14, 2020OP175

After three decades of prosperity and relative peace, Australia suddenly confronts a trifecta of crises:...

Cancelled! How ideological cleansing threatens Australia
Peter KurtiAugust 17, 2020AP13

‘Cancel culture’ campaigns in Australia are intended to erase elements of our history and to...

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Industrial Relations in a Post-COVID World
Judith SloanAugust 13, 2020AP12

The economic shocks of COVID-19 and the associated government responses have rendered aspects of our...

Warning Australia: wrong way, go back
Peter KurtiDecember 27, 2024DAILY TELEGRAPH

As we approach year’s end, there is growing fear that Australia is foundering. Cost of...

This childcare overhaul will actually do very little for parents
Simon CowanDecember 14, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

The news this week that the Prime Minister has committed to abolishing the activity test...

maths, anxiety, maths anxiety, policy, education
Do the maths or we’ll never be a STEM superpower
Glenn FaheyDecember 12, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

Calls for Australia to become a STEM superpower will never be answered unless our students...

Cutting gas risks plunging Australia into blackouts
Grahame CampbellDecember 3, 2024DAILY TELEGRAPH
If anti-gas campaigns succeed, Australia could face a wave of blackouts due to the inherent...
Banning under 16s? Maybe we could try literally any less draconian measure first
Simon Cowan, Emilie DyeNovember 30, 2024CANBERRA TIMES
Australia has become the first country in the world to attempt banning social media for...
Blackout fears prove our living standards are slipping
November 29, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

One good reason to have a controllable supply of electricity at our disposal is to...

George Brandis Interview on Human Rights
September 4, 2013
Lies & the unemployment rate – Andrew Baker on ABC The Business
August 30, 2013
Tax Reform with Robert Carling
August 6, 2013
Not Looking for Work – Andrew Baker
July 30, 2013
Jeremy Sammut on Lateline, 9 July 2013 – Foster Care Crisis
July 22, 2013
Jeremy Sammut on Lateline, 9 July 2013 – Foster Care Crisis
July 22, 2013
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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