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A Shy Hope in the Mind: Secularisation and the Diversity of Australia’s Religious Economy
Peter KurtiJune 12, 2018AP1

There are few facets of human society — whether political, social, or economic — that...

A Viable Option: A National Adoption Framework
Jeremy SammutJune 6, 2018PP4

Implementation of the National Child Protection Accountability Framework would correct the bias towards ‘early intervention...

The Future of Medicare: Health Innovation in 21st Century Australia
Jeremy Sammut, David Gadiel, Jessica Borbasi, Peta Seaton, Gerald ThomasJune 1, 2018

CLICK HERE TO BUY HARDCOPY If the status quo prevails, and we do not overcome...

Defending the Dual Citizen Ban
Simon CowanMay 31, 2018PP3

The High Court has rightfully resisted calls to read subjective elements into section 44(i) in...

Why We Need NAPLAN
Blaise JosephMay 13, 2018RR36

The National Assessment Plan – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is a crucial national assessment, but...

Let Money Speak
Simon CowanApril 25, 2018PP2

The government’s proposal to ban foreign donations and limit political contributions from charities is a...

Doha’s self-inflicted blows
David RobertsonJuly 4, 2006The Australian Financial Review

The World Trade Organisation and its forerunner, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is...

Little is fair in regulating taxi fares and licences
Krystian SeibertJune 30, 2006The Australian Financial Review

Through all the market reforms of the 1990s, examples of taxi market deregulation in Australia...

Steep learning curve for all
June 30, 2006The Australian

Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs Mal Brough has placed responsibility for school attendance squarely with...

The Rise of the Opinionators
Peter SaundersJune 17, 2006The Australian

It used to be the case that, if you knew what somebody did for a...

Growth in Labor support: it’s academic
Peter SaundersJune 17, 2006The Australian

It used to be the case that, if you knew what somebody did for a...

Polies teach us to pick our own pockets
Peter SaundersJune 2, 2006The Age

Victorian families, rejoice! As a result of John Brumby’s latest budget, all parents in the...

Debunking Maths Myths
Sarah Powell, Oliver Lovell, Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Glenn FaheySeptember 29, 2022
Leading mathematics teaching experts Sarah Powell and Ollie Lovell sat down with Glenn Fahey to...
On Liberty EP100 Liberty learnt over 100 episodes
Tom Switzer, Salvatore BabonesSeptember 28, 2022On Liberty
To celebrate 100 Episodes of On Liberty we flip the script and CIS executive director...
Can We Depend on Merit?
Steven Schwartz, The Hon Dr Gary Johns, Peter KurtiSeptember 22, 2022
Peter Kurti sat down with two distinguished CIS Adjunct Scholars, Professor Steven Schwartz and Dr...
Never Bet Against The United States
John Bolton, Stan GrantSeptember 20, 2022

Speaking at the 2022 John Bonython Lecture and Gala Dinner Ambassador John Bolton and Stan...

The U.S. vs the China-Russia entente
John BoltonSeptember 16, 2022
Speaking at the 2022 John Bonython Lecture, Ambassador Bolton addressed the U.S. vs the China-Russia...
On Liberty EP99 Teachers and nurses deserve choice, not monopoly unions
Glenn FaheySeptember 14, 2022On Liberty
We welcomed Red Union Managing Director, Jack McGuire to discuss whether Australia’s teachers and nurses...
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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