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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...

Rudd’s baby farms are not going to be great for kids
April 18, 2008The Australian

Kevin Rudd’s ‘Big Idea’ for this weekend’s 2020 Summit is a plan to help ‘working...

Policy reform to close the gap between black and white
Helen HughesApril 15, 2008The Australian Financial Review

After some 200 years of discrimination, the basic principles that must inform policies that affect...

Who should pay for maternity leave – employers, unions or taxpayers?
April 14, 2008The Age

Elizabeth Broderick, Sharan Burrow and Heather Ridout have come together to argue in favour of...

Supersize my economy
Phil RennieApril 11, 2008The National Business Review

Everyone knows that Australians are richer than New Zealanders, with wages a third higher on...

Let’s review all family benefits, not just paid maternity leave
April 10, 2008The Canberra Times

Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard a myriad of competing opinions about the possible...

Much to learn from Hayek on efficiency
Nicholas GruenApril 10, 2008The Australian

Here are two figures I think of when I think about regulation. The first is...

Antisemitism Is Not a Jewish Problem, It’s an Australian Problem | Frydenberg, Finlay & Sackville
Peter Kurti, Michael Stutchbury, Josh Frydenberg, Lorraine Finlay, Ronald Sackville AO KCApril 10, 2026

Michael Stutchbury, Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Studies, opens this panel discussion with...

Australia’s Hate Speech Failure | Dimitri Burshtein
Dimitri BurshteinMarch 31, 2026

The tragic events at Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025 expose a deepening crisis in...

Behind Every Great Teacher Is a Great System | David Didau, Jenny Donovan & Trisha Jha
Trisha Jha, David Didau, Jenny DonovanMarch 20, 2026

David Didau — education consultant, teacher trainer, and author of Making Kids Cleverer and Intelligent...

Housing, handouts, and the Collapse of the Australian Dream
Parnell McGuinnessMarch 19, 2026

Over the past several decades, Australian society has undergone profound economic, social, and cultural change....

“The 50% discount is unfair” and other CGT myths | Robert Carling & Michael Stutchbury
Robert Carling, Michael StutchburyMarch 11, 2026

The criticisms and characterization of the 50% capital gains tax discount over many years have...

The Case for Optimism: More People, More Ideas, More Wealth | Marian Tupy
Marian L. Tupy, Michael StutchburyMarch 6, 2026

Marian Tupy — editor of HumanProgress.org, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and co-author of...

Against simplistic ideology—even liberalism as a simplistic ideology
Robert Forsyth, Parnell McGuinnessJanuary 12, 2021Liberalism in Question

Parnell McGuinness is a columnist at the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, and is...

Yes, Classical Liberalism is under threat
Robert Forsyth, Glenn FaheyJanuary 5, 2021Liberalism in Question

Glenn Fahey is a Research Fellow in Education Policy at the CIS. Previously Glenn has...

Why liberalism needs a new social contract to be renewed
Robert Forsyth, Tim WilsonDecember 29, 2020Liberalism in Question

Rob interviews Tim Wilson, who at the time of recording was MP for Goldstein, about...

“We can’t allow our liberalism to be historically blind.”
Robert Forsyth, Stan GrantDecember 22, 2020Liberalism in Question

Stan Grant an experienced journalist, thinker and writer has thought deeply about liberalism to which...

Unashamedly upbeat about liberalism— “More Fukuyama than Fukuyama.”
Robert Forsyth, Salvatore BabonesDecember 15, 2020Liberalism in Question

In an energetic discussion of both sociology and history Salvatore Babones, Associate Professor of Sociology...

Liberalism—both a prejudice to freedom and a delicate flower.
Robert Forsyth, Ian HarperDecember 8, 2020Liberalism in Question

Rob chats with Professor Ian Harper, member of the Reserve Bank Board and dean of...

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