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Our media releases, opinion pieces, commentary, videos and audio podcasts are available in this section. Our experts are able to comment on a range of policy areas amd issues. Please contact our Communications Director, Karla Pincott via phone 0407 716 752 or email kpincott@cis.org.au

Mapping migrants: Australians’ wide-ranging experiences of immigration
Charles JacobsDecember 5, 2018PP13

Australians’ experiences of immigration are highly varied. Using 2016 ABS Census data, this POLICY Paper...

Why we should defend capitalism
Eugenie JosephNovember 28, 2018PP12

Capitalism has become a controversial idea in recent years; yet economic markets and free enterprise...

Why God is Good for You
Greg SheridanNovember 28, 2018OP169

Conversation with The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan and CIS senior research fellow Peter Kurti...

Have We All Gone Mad? The Snowflake Epidemic
Steven Schwartz, Lindsay Shepherd, Claire Lehmann, Tiffany JenkinsNovember 22, 2018OP168

University campuses throughout the West are in the grip of a troubling social phenomenon, now...

Australian Attitudes to Immigration: Coming Apart or Common Ground?
Jeremy Sammut, Monica WilkieNovember 18, 2018PP11

Immigration has been a contentious political issue in Australia and overseas for a number of...

University Freedom Charters: How best to protect free speech on Australian campuses
Jeremy SammutOctober 7, 2018PP10

This POLICY Paper recommends how and why a ‘university freedom charters’ policy that is backed...

Big government Libs
Greg LindsayDecember 12, 2006The Australian Financial Review

In Parliament last week the Prime Minister railed against critics of his family policies. ‘They...

The blight of restrictive trade policy
Phil RennieDecember 12, 2006The Canberra Times

Protectionism is alive and well in Australia with some of the biggest culprits raising their...

Do tax cuts make a difference?
Phil RennieDecember 12, 2006New Zealand Center For Political Debate

With a budget surplus of over $11 billion the government is fast running out of...

English literacy in remote indigenous communities
Kirsten StorryDecember 7, 2006ABC Radio National

In early November, Secretary to the Treasury Ken Henry said that Australia will not have...

Brough’s welfare plan on right track
Peter SaundersDecember 4, 2006The Canberra Times

Family Services Minister Mal Brough wants to withhold up to 40per cent of the welfare...

Welfare fails to save the world
Deepak LalDecember 4, 2006The Australian

The humanitarian case for aid has been based on an analogy with the Western welfare...

The China and US Tech War
Alice HanMarch 9, 2023
2022 CIS Scholar in Residence Alice Han discusses the battle between China and the USA...
How to deal with China
James Mann, Alice Han, James Laurenceson, Richard McGregor, Tom SwitzerFebruary 23, 2023
We hosted CIS Scholars-in-residence James Mann and Alice Han, as well as journalist and china...
Emily Hanford: Sold A Story
Emily Hanford, Glenn FaheyFebruary 3, 2023
We welcomed Investigative education reporter and host of the ground-breaking Sold a Story podcast, Emily...
Is Britain Broken?
Daniel Hannan, Tom SwitzerFebruary 2, 2023
We were delighted to have Lord Daniel Hannan to discuss the problems facing Britain and...
Prudence and Power: The Writings of Owen Harries
Paul Kelly, Michael Easson, Sue Windybank, Tom SwitzerDecember 13, 2022
The eminent journalist Paul Kelly launches our new book Prudence and Power: the Writings of...
CIS Nanny State Awards 2022
Steven SchwartzDecember 8, 2022

This year’s highly un-coveted Nanny State Award was a tight contest, with a horde of...

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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