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Voting for a living: A shift in Australian politics from selling policies to buying votes?
Robert Carling, Terrence O’BrienSeptember 5, 2018PP9

This paper explores the hypothesis that growth of government has become self-sustaining through the emergence...

Euthanasia: Putting the Culture to Death?
Peter KurtiSeptember 2, 2018

CLICK HERE TO BUY HARDCOPY Mounting pressure to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia is a...

Why childcare is not affordable
Eugenie JosephAugust 29, 2018RR37

Childcare fees and out-of-pocket costs in Australia have been growing above inflation in recent years,...

Curbing Corporate Social Responsibility: Preventing Politicisation – and Preserving Pluralism – in Australian Business
Jeremy SammutAugust 21, 2018AP2

The unprecedented part that leading that Australian companies played in the same-sex marriage campaign in...

A Test of Maturity: The liberal case for action on religious freedom
Robert ForsythJuly 31, 2018PP8

Australia has long enjoyed religious freedom in practice without robust legal protections. Such protections as...

John Howard: A Conversation on Culture
John Howard OM AC, Tom Switzer, Jeremy SammutJuly 26, 2018OP166

Based on the remarks made by former Prime Minister John Howard at the launch of...

Self-interest skyrockets in spoilt nation
Gaurav SodhiAugust 11, 2006The Courier Mail

The Reserve Bank’s latest interest rate rise has been particularly revealing. Not only has it...

Report into literacy and numeracy too narrow
August 8, 2006The Canberra Times

Late last month, in his address to Reconciliation Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said education...

Water trading is the only way to go
August 8, 2006The Australian Financial Review

Environmental alarmists have been crying wolf about water wars for years but, like many green...

The real priorities
Bjorn LomborgAugust 8, 2006The Australian

A Mayor has a $10million surplus, which he wants to allocate to a good cause....

Bill Gates must set priorities
Roger BateAugust 3, 2006The Australian

With Warren Buffett’s largesse added to his own, Bill Gates has about $60 billion to...

Less tax better for business
August 2, 2006The New Zealand Herald

Underwhelming as it may seem, the Government’s Business Tax Review re-opens a huge philosophical debate...

On Liberty EP42 How an unprecedented presidency changed everything.
Salvatore Babones, Zoe DanielMarch 10, 2021On Liberty

Donald Trump turned America on its head and shocked the world, taking an isolationist approach...

25 years since John Howard’s landslide election victory
John Howard OM AC, Tom SwitzerMarch 9, 2021

4, March 2021 marked the 25th anniversary of the Howard Coalition government’s election. In honour...

On Liberty EP41 The Paradox of Prosperity
Salvatore Babones, Peter MurphyMarch 3, 2021On Liberty

Does prosperity depend on discipline, rational planning, and strict adherence to scientific principles? Or is...

On Liberty EP40 Biden shows he is no Barack Obama
Salvatore Babones, John LeeFebruary 24, 2021On Liberty

We welcomed former CIS scholar John Lee. Recently writing in The Australian, John highlighted the...

Helping People in 100 Years VS Helping People Now
Bjorn LomborgFebruary 21, 2021

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

Let’s look at the Facts of the 2020 Australian Bush Fires
Bjorn Lomborg, Tom SwitzerFebruary 20, 2021

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

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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