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Budget 2019: Why the long-term tax cuts should be fast-tracked
John HumphreysApril 4, 2019PP19

The centrepiece of the 2019/20 budget was a proposed doubling of the income tax cuts...

Overcoming the Odds: A study of Australia’s top-performing disadvantaged schools
Blaise JosephMarch 18, 2019RR39

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

Myth vs Reality: The case against increasing Capital Gains Tax
Robert CarlingMarch 5, 2019PP18

Australia’s capital gains tax (CGT) policy has been largely settled for almost 20 years. However,...

Does Western Civilisation Have a Future?
Wolfgang KasperFebruary 19, 2019PP17

The question, whether our civilisation has a future, will sound preposterous to many. Has Western...

Dividend Franking Credit Refunds: principle vs revenue
Robert CarlingFebruary 12, 2019PP16

Under Australia’s dividend imputation system of taxation, since 2000 taxpayers whose franking credits exceed their...

Reading Recovery: A Failed Investment
Jennifer Buckingham OAMFebruary 7, 2019PP15

Five from Five is now a community education project supported by MultiLit, a reading program...

Simpler tax is easy, but where’s the political courage?
John HumphreysNovember 30, 2005The Australian

Reform is good. Sometimes, revolution is better. Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has announced his intention...

Individuals can make a difference in the face of global threats
Miranda DarlingNovember 22, 2005The Canberra Times

There are few countries in the world where the threat of a potential avian flu...

Tax competition promotes good policy
November 10, 2005The Australian Financial Review

Beginning with the 1998 publication of Harmful Tax Competition: an Emerging Global Issue, the Paris-based...

Africa needs free markets, not aid, to flee poverty
November 10, 2005The Canberra Times

All-star economist Jeffrey Sachs recently made a fly-by presentation in Sydney, calling for a new...

A Cinderella story for the modern welfare state
Peter SaundersNovember 2, 2005The Age

Ron Howard's new movie, Cinderella Man, tells the true story of American boxer Jim Braddock....

Time to open gate to school-based training
Jennifer Buckingham OAMNovember 2, 2005The Newcastle Herald

A few things are known about education. The most important influence on how much a...

Political correctness and its discontents
Brendan O'Neill, Jeremy SammutJanuary 13, 2019

Join Brendan O’Neill, one of Britain’s quirkiest, wittiest and liveliest commentators, in conversation with Jeremy...

The 2018 CIS Nanny Awards
Steven Schwartz, Tom SwitzerDecember 13, 2018

The 2018 CIS Nanny Awards take a look back at the year’s best and most...

The Crisis of Democracy
Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, Janet Albrechtsen, Matthew Lesh, Glenn BarnesNovember 23, 2018

For generations, we just assumed democracy is fixed and given. However, all across the world,...

Bill McMahon, an eccentric economic reformer?
Patrick Mullins, Paul Kelly, John Howard OM ACNovember 21, 2018

William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics. Was...

Individualism and the Paradox of Affirmative Action
Daniel Hannan, Tom SwitzerNovember 16, 2018

Daniel Hannan is a leading British writer and journalist. After 17 years as a Member...

A Democratic wave or Trump triumph? – Panel Discussion on US Mid Terms 2018 Elections Results
Greg Sheridan, April Palmerlee, Bob Carr, Tom SwitzerNovember 7, 2018

US midterm elections are usually bad for the President’s party, but amid a booming economy...

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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