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Ending the Violence in Indigenous Communities
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Marcia Langton, Josephine CashmanDecember 5, 2016OP152

Urgent action is need to address the epidemic of violence in Indigenous communities. Aboriginal women...

Contemporary “Duck & Cover”? Terror Challenges in the 21st Century
David KilcullenDecember 1, 2016OP150

Counter-insurgency expert, scholar and author Dr David Kilcullen is Chief Operating Officer of Meta Aerospace...

MEDI-VATION: ‘Health Innovation Communities’ for Medicare Payment and Service Reform
Jeremy Sammut, Gerald Thomas, Peta SeatonNovember 2, 2016RR21

Health Innovation Communities (HICs) would essentially constitute an Australian ‘Silicon Valley’ for health – hubs...

Fix it or Fail: Why we must cut company tax now
Michael PotterOctober 4, 2016RR20

Australia needs to cut company tax to 25% to boost business investment, which is currently...

Early Childhood Intervention: Assessing the evidence
Trisha JhaSeptember 20, 2016Research Report 19

Early childhood interventions are programs that aim to improve a child’s development trajectory over the...

The Battle of Ideas: can the beliefs that feed terrorism be changed?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Denis Dragovic, Tanveer Ahmed, Peter KurtiSeptember 19, 2016OP149

Defeating violent Islamic extremism has been a high priority for all western countries, including Australia,...

Beware governments bearing projections
Simon CowanJuly 3, 2021Canberra Times

Beware governments bearing projections! Somewhat overlooked — in the cascading national lockdown frenzy — was...

Why Religious Freedom Laws Are Needed in Australia Now More Than Ever
Peter KurtiJuly 1, 2021The Epoch Times

Cowed by public health reprimands and driven back into lockdown for fear of contagion, many...

Australian State Budgets Serve Up More Debt on the Menu
Robert CarlingJune 29, 2021Epoch Times

The dramatic transformation of Australia’s fiscal landscape by the COVID-19 pandemic has been confirmed by...

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in Senate will be a turning point for Indigenous affairs
Tom SwitzerJune 28, 2021The Australian

The term watershed is often misplaced in politics, but perhaps not so this past weekend....

Treat teaching as a supply-side problem
Glenn FaheyJune 24, 2021Financial Review

Opening up the teaching workforce, rather than tolerating anti-competitive protection of incumbents, is the way...

Why problem-based approaches are not the right answer
Glenn FaheyJune 20, 2021Canberra Times

The draft revised school curriculum’s push to prioritise problem-solving is educationally flawed and will handicap...

On Liberty EP77 Maths wars expose the great divide in education
Glenn Fahey, Salvatore BabonesDecember 1, 2021On Liberty

Australian student achievement has declined more steeply and more consistently than almost any other country,...

Identity politics is a threat to society
Yuki ChengNovember 26, 2021

Identity politics has been weaponised to sow division across the Western world. Genuine liberals believe...

On Liberty EP76 Will future generations share our enthusiasm for a democracy
Glenn Fahey, Michael JohnstonNovember 24, 2021On Liberty

We welcomed Dr Michael Johnston from the Victoria University of Wellington. He will discuss how...

On Liberty EP75 China’s risky path to riches
Salvatore Babones, Rowan CallickNovember 17, 2021On Liberty

The Chinese Communist Party is at the peak of its power, entering its second century....

On Liberty EP74 The Great COVID Panic
Salvatore Babones, Gigi FosterNovember 10, 2021On Liberty

In the Great Panic of early 2020, nearly every government in the world restricted the...

What Really Happened in Wuhan
Sharri Markson, Tom SwitzerNovember 4, 2021

Has China’s suppression of information of what happened in Wuhan mean we will never know...

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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