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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...

Childcare in Australia: A new approach
Gigi FosterNovember 20, 2025RR51

Executive summary Several well-known bodies, from the Productivity Commission to the Australian Competition and Consumer...

Keeping Budgets on the Rails: Rules for Fiscal Responsibility
Robert CarlingNovember 13, 2025AP94

Executive Summary Fiscal rules are numerical limits to one or more of government spending, revenue,...

Pay increases don’t help the unemployed
Kayoko TsumoriDecember 5, 2002The Australian Financial Review

A few weeks ago, the Australian Council of Trade Unions announced yet another 'living wage'...

Poverty – flawed figures, gloomy estimates
Peter SaundersNovember 22, 2002The Adelaide Advertiser

Poverty is a harsh word for harsh conditions. It conjures up images of people sleeping...

Outdated laws create problems for universities
November 21, 2002The Courier Mail

Gloom and Australia's universities are longtime companions. The National Library's catalogue records half a dozen...

Lies and statistics
Helen HughesNovember 4, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Surjit Bhalla's book Imagine There's No Country has created a furore in Washington by convincingly...

We must dance with the devil
Owen HarriesOctober 29, 2002The Australian

IN the wake of the Bali bombing, it is imperative that we think clearly and,...

The poor are not poorer in fact
Peter SaundersOctober 26, 2002The Age

The Commonwealth Government has just acceded to pressure from the ALP and the welfare-spending lobby...

Luke Malpass – Alcohol Policy and the Politics of Moral Panic
May 23, 2011
Malcolm Turnbull discusses the NBN at CIS
May 19, 2011
Dr Stephen Kirchner – Hands, Mouths and Minds
May 19, 2011
Q&A Australia’s Urban Water Challenge Rebecca Gill
May 17, 2011
Q&A Australia’s Urban Water Challenge Rebecca Gill
May 17, 2011
Q&A Australia’s Urban Water Challenge Rebecca Gill
May 17, 2011
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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