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Overcoming Enmity and Restoring Tolerance. Antisemitism’s challenge for the civic compact
Damien FreemanFebruary 5, 2026AP99

Foreword When the Book of Genesis speaks of enmity between the serpent and the descendants...

Progressive Intolerance. The contemporary antisemitism landscape in Australia
Philip MendesJanuary 22, 2026AP98
The evidence is comprehensive and damning. From universities to trade unions, from civil society organisations...
Future No Longer Made in Australia: How we lost our low-cost electricity advantage
Zoe Hilton, Michael StutchburyDecember 18, 2025IA154
Trouble has been brewing in Australia’s smelting paradise over the last two decades, as rising...
Reframing an Ancient Hatred: the intersection of left-wing antisemitism and anti-Zionism
Julie ClaridgeDecember 11, 2025AP97
Anti-Zionism has evolved to create a further mutation of antisemitism, cloaking bias and discrimination in...
Politics of Pressure: how government intervention left us short of gas
Grahame CampbellDecember 4, 2025AP96

Introduction Australia’s natural gas sector has transformed dramatically between 1975 and 2025. What began...

Taxing Tobacco into Illegality: how split responsibilities and high excise created Australia’s tobacco wars
Sinclair DavidsonNovember 27, 2025AP95

Executive Summary Australia’s tobacco control policy has reached a breaking point. For decades, bans on...

Long-term welfare detrimental to kids, says new report
October 2, 2009

Welfare campaigners this week lobbied the government to lift unemployment benefits, after the OECD revealed...

China’s statistical setback
John LeeOctober 1, 2009Forbes

Nationalistic pride can be found in strange places when it comes to celebrating the 60th...

Canberra’s Investment Confusion
Stephen KirchnerSeptember 30, 2009The Wall Street Journal

Chinese companies are increasingly looking to invest overseas, and foreign capitals are calibrating their policy...

For Merkel, it’s now or never to get serious
Oliver Marc HartwichSeptember 29, 2009The Australian

Angela Merkel’s confirmation as Chancellor in Sunday’s German elections could at first look like a...

Ferguson shown the door by media and the mob
Jeremy SammutSeptember 29, 2009The Newcastle Herald

The Rees government’s decision to evict child-sex offender Dennis Ferguson from his public housing unit...

The Party’s Not Over: Why China’s 60th birthday is nothing to celebrate
John LeeSeptember 28, 2009Foreign Policy

On 16 September, the blockbuster film The Founding of a Republic was released to commemorate the...

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo: US-Australia Relations
Mike Pompeo, Marise Payne, Tom SwitzerSeptember 19, 2019

It’s not often that an Australian think tank gets to host the world’s leading diplomat,...

Boris Johnson and British Conservatism
Simon Heffer, Tom SwitzerSeptember 10, 2019

Hear from Simon Heffer, a leading conservative commentator who has known Boris Johnson for three...

Time to get tougher with the PRC?
Jason Yat-sen Li, Anastasia Lin, Salvatore Babones, Private: Sue Windybank – Do not Use – DuplicateAugust 24, 2019

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s increasingly hardline rule at home and growing assertiveness abroad show few...

Australia’s choice in a US-China conflict
John Mearsheimer, Tom SwitzerAugust 19, 2019

As China converts its growing economic power into military power, it will seek to dominate...

Anastasia Lin: China and human rights
Anastasia Lin, Tom SwitzerAugust 16, 2019

China uses its trade power as leverage to infiltrate institutions and bully virtually every Western...

China debate: John Mearsheimer vs Hugh White
John Mearsheimer, Hugh WhiteAugust 12, 2019

For years, Australian policymakers have balanced China’s desire for an enhanced regional role with our...

How loss of cheap energy pressures wage system | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyNovember 27, 2025

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Dark Forces at Work? Sir Frank Lowy on the Return of Antisemitism | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyOctober 10, 2025Liberalism in Question

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Iron, Ideas, and Abundance: Supply Side Mistakes and Lessons | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 26, 2025

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Why Australians Vote for Big Government | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 19, 2025

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Our Prosperity is Slipping Away | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 16, 2025

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Protests, Polarisation and Immigration | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 15, 2025

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