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Sacred & Profane: Faith and Belief in a Secular Society

Peter KurtiSeptember 20, 2020

Peter Kurti lifts up the stone on questions that our secular society thought it had...

Australia, the United States and China in a post-Covid world

Richard AlstonSeptember 14, 2020OP175

After three decades of prosperity and relative peace, Australia suddenly confronts a trifecta of crises:...

Cancelled! How ideological cleansing threatens Australia

Peter KurtiAugust 17, 2020AP13

‘Cancel culture’ campaigns in Australia are intended to erase elements of our history and to...

Industrial Relations in a Post-COVID World

Judith SloanAugust 13, 2020AP12

The economic shocks of COVID-19 and the associated government responses have rendered aspects of our...

Moral Terrorism

Simon HefferJuly 21, 2020OP174

We find ourselves living in an age when a small but highly vocal, and zealous,...

It’s The Economy, Stupid: Economic participation only way to Close the Gap

Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOJuly 14, 2020AP11

The gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians exists for one reason — too many Indigenous...

PM is a serious man for serious times

Tom SwitzerMay 17, 2020Australian Financial Review

Exactly a year after his surprise election victory, Scott Morrison enjoys overwhelming popular support. By...

Young to shoulder coronanomics burden

Glenn FaheyMay 15, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

While the worst health effects of covid are suffered by the elderly, the brunt of...

Not the budget speech

Robert CarlingMay 15, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

The Treasurer’s ministerial statement to parliament this week – in place of the usual budget...

Vale Deepak Lal (1940-2020)

Greg Lindsay AOMay 15, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

With someone you know well but don’t see too often, the shock of their passing...

No particular place to go

May 15, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

Queensland has just had its first weekends with some restrictions removed — we were allowed...

The economic statement: the real issues

Robert CarlingMay 13, 2020SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE

The Treasurer’s ministerial statement to parliament yesterday – in place of the usual budget speech...

NSW State Treasurer Andrew Constance -media edit

March 24, 2015

An Ounce of Prevention Q&A

February 20, 2015

Value of life-prolonging medicine questionable if life quality is crumbling

February 18, 2015

An Ounce Of Prevention

February 18, 2015

Fairness is a complex concept

February 17, 2015

Fairness is a complex concept

February 17, 2015