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Life Before Death: Improving Palliative Care for Older Australians
Jessica BorbasiNovember 19, 2017RR34

The notion that the problems associated with modern death and dying can be solved simply...

Resetting the Pendulum: Balanced, Effective, Accountable Child Protection Systems and Adoption Reform in Australia
Jeremy SammutNovember 11, 2017RR33

The national significance of the NSW child protection and adoption reforms cannot be overstated. The...

The History Wars Matter
Jeremy SammutNovember 8, 2017OP159

Despite what the post-modern theorists claim, the nation remains the ultimate political reality. The power...

UBI – Universal Basic Income is an Unbelievably Bad Idea
Simon CowanNovember 5, 2017RR32

The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), paid by the government to its citizens...

Impact Investing: harnessing capital markets to solve societal problems
Josephine CashmanOctober 25, 2017OP158

In the post GFC environment, with the risk and return matrix and reputation risk to...

Getting the most out of Gonski 2.0: The evidence base for school investments
Blaise JosephOctober 14, 2017RR31

Schools should invest in evidence-based, cost-effective policies to improve literacy and numeracy results. Early literacy...

SUPER WARS
The next tax raid in the super wars
Robert CarlingSeptember 12, 2022SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE

One predictable consequence of the change of government in May was that it would take...

Stage 3 Tax cuts
Anthony Albanese’s stage 3 tax cut blues
Simon CowanSeptember 10, 2022CANBERRA TIMES

The current uncertainty surrounding the Stage 3 tax cuts was both an entirely predictable and...

A remarkable 70-year reign
Tom SwitzerSeptember 9, 2022

Like so many people across the globe, we at CIS pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth...

domestic violence
‘Anti-racism’ makes it impossible to speak up about Aborginal domestic violence
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 7, 2022SKY NEWS

Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly is not afraid to cause a stir by...

Indigenous Australia cannot be spoken for by a single Voice
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 6, 2022THE WEST AUSTRALIAN

No other Western constitution provides for an Indigenous “Voice”. Canada’s Constitution includes a simple statement...

Tax cuts
Why the government has to make the case for stage 3 tax cuts
Robert CarlingSeptember 5, 2022FINANCIAL REVIEW

The Morrison government’s stage 3 income tax cuts— still almost two years away from their...

Price Drivers — Five Case Studies in How Government is Making Australia Unaffordable
December 12, 2011
Q&A Update on the Euro Crisis with Oliver Marc Hartwich
December 12, 2011
Update on the Euro Crisis with Oliver Marc Hartwich
December 12, 2011
Update on the Euro Crisis with Oliver Marc Hartwich
December 12, 2011
Jessica Brown on The Drum, ABC 24
December 2, 2011
Pragmatism vs. Ideology
December 1, 2011
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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