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The Looming Iceberg: Australia’s post-pandemic debt risk

Robert CarlingJanuary 28, 2021PP35

After many years with low public debt, Australia is seeing a much higher debt burden...

Worlds Apart: Remote Indigenous disadvantage in the context of wider Australia

Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJanuary 25, 2021PP34

Remote and very remote Indigenous communities have become victims of a ‘wicked problem’. A combination...

The New President: What Biden’s Foreign Policy Agenda Means for Australia

Salvatore BabonesJanuary 19, 2021OP178

Joe Biden comes to the presidency amid great expectations for a return to normalcy in...

Victims of failure – how the COVID-19 policy response let down Australians

Monica WilkieDecember 9, 2020AP18

The government response to COVID-19 has imposed restrictions on Australians unseen in peacetime. As Australians...

Planning restrictions harm housing affordability

Peter TulipDecember 3, 2020PP33

Planning restrictions reduce the supply of housing and hence raise its price. This paper summarises...

Dollars and Sense: Time for smart reform of Australian school funding

Glenn FaheyDecember 1, 2020RR40

Australia is among the world’s highest-spending countries on schooling. Yet, the educational return on this...

And the winner is … Robamamney!

Benjamin HerscovitchNovember 9, 2012

As Barack Obama’s Midwest ‘firewall’ was delivering him the presidency, the ABC’s Mark Simkin asked...

Facts favour nuclear-powered submarines

Simon CowanNovember 5, 2012ON LINE Opinion

Australia's $40 billion project to replace our six Collins Class submarines with 12 Future Submarines...

The interest rate cut that wasn’t

Stephen KirchnerNovember 5, 2012Business Spectator

If financial markets are any guide, the Reserve Bank is set to reduce official interest...

Smelling the fiscal rat

Robert CarlingNovember 2, 2012

Ordinary people don’t understand the entrails of government budgets, but they can certainly smell a...

Half-baked language policy is al dente

Benjamin HerscovitchNovember 2, 2012

The government’s recently released white paper, Australia in the Asian Century, is heavy on big...

Adoption: Proof think tanks CAN DO

Jeremy SammutNovember 2, 2012

The Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry has endorsed adoption ‘as one response’ to the...

Don’t waste trillions on BAD Climate Policy

Bjorn LomborgFebruary 24, 2020

Global warming is a problem that we should tackle… smartly. But climate change will not...

The Next Pandemic; China’s Coronavirus

Doug Bandow, Private: Sue Windybank – Do not Use – Duplicate, Natasha Kassam, Salvatore Babones, Vicky XuFebruary 24, 2020

But what happens if the virus can’t be suppressed? How significant will the economic loss...

The Skeptical Environmentalist

Bjorn LomborgFebruary 14, 2020

The world’s governments have picked 169 well-meaning targets, promising everything to everyone. But too many...

2020 Iowa Caucus Elections, confusion and delays. Trump claims victory.

Doug Bandow, April Palmerlee, Stephen Loosley, Gorana Grgic, Tom SwitzerFebruary 5, 2020

Many seasoned experts of American politics believe Donald Trump is the most vulnerable first-term president...

Revitalising the Australian Economy

Andrew Stone, Tony Abbott, Paul Kelly, Tom SwitzerJanuary 29, 2020

To launch Restoring Hope: Practical Policies to Revitalise the Australian Economy by Andrew Stone, CIS...

Changing the Debate around Australian Indigenous Policy

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO, Anthony Dillon, Chris KennyJanuary 24, 2020

Changing the Debate; Our expert panel comprised of CIS’s Indigenous Program director, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price,...