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Criminalising Hate Speech: Australia’s crusade against vilification
Monica WilkieSeptember 18, 2019AP6

In Australia, there are a range of criminal and civil vilification laws that exist to...

What Do Parents Want? Australian childcare preferences and attitudes
Eugenie Joseph, Fiona MuellerSeptember 10, 2019PP22

Many Australian families rely on formal and informal childcare to enable them to take on...

Inquiry into measurement and outcome-based funding in New South Wales schools
Glenn FaheyAugust 31, 2019

The Portfolio Committee on Education in the NSW Legislative Council has set up an inquiry...

The China Student Boom and the Risks It Poses to Australian Universities
Salvatore BabonesAugust 20, 2019AP5

Australia’s universities are taking a multi-million dollar gamble with taxpayer money to pursue a high-risk,...

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The China Challenge
Rowan CallickJuly 28, 2019OP171

The rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has helped make Australia rich, but...

Overcoming the Odds 2: Where are the top-performing disadvantaged secondary schools?
Blaise JosephJuly 23, 2019PP21

Students from disadvantaged social backgrounds perform worse academically on average than more advantaged students. However,...

No dancing past the fact we’ll have to live with Covid
Steven SchwartzFebruary 22, 2021The Australian

As COVID-19 trudges through endless revisions of rules and regulations, Australia’s response to the virus...

Woke Wars
Monica WilkieFebruary 19, 2021IDEAS@THECENTRE

The latest Hollywood cancellation has raised the usual hackles. But the problem is that a...

Calling time on an untimed syllabus
Glenn FaheyFebruary 19, 2021IDEAS@THECENTRE

The government’s decision to torpedo the controversial pitch for an ‘untimed syllabus’ in schools is...

Dismal understanding of democracy
Joanne TranFebruary 19, 2021IDEAS@THECENTRE

The apathy young Australians have for our democracy can be traced to dismal knowledge of...

Endless fiscal stimulus can’t be the new normal
Robert CarlingFebruary 18, 2021Financial Review

Governments everywhere are being urged to take advantage of near-zero interest rates, throw caution to...

Ditching academics’ fantasy a win for education
Glenn FaheyFebruary 16, 2021Sydney Morning Herald

The government’s decision to torpedo the controversial pitch for an “untimed syllabus” in schools is...

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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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