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Mapping the Indigenous Program and Funding Maze
Sara HudsonAugust 23, 2016Research Report 18

There is much goodwill in Australia to improve Indigenous outcomes. However, too many programs are...

The Limits of Australian Anti-discrimination Law
Helen AndrewsAugust 3, 2016Research Report 17

Anti-discrimination law has existed in Australia for only fifty years, and yet in that comparatively...

domestic violence
Homeland Truths: The Unspoken Epidemic of Violence in Indigenous Communities
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJuly 25, 2016OP148

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s speech is a powerful personal plea to stop the violence against women...

The High Court, Democracy and Same Sex Marriage
Barry MaleyJuly 19, 2016OP147

The High Court in 2013 overturned the understanding of marriage in the Marriage Act 1961...

The Democratic Deficit: How Minority Fundamentalism Threatens Liberty in Australia
Peter KurtiJuly 12, 2016Research Report 16

We are faced with a new kind of fundamentalism – call it ‘minority fundamentalism.’ It...

Society is Broken
Theodore DalrympleJune 20, 2016OP146

With experience as a prison doctor and psychiatrist, Theodore Dalrymple decries the impact of the...

Who should pay child support?
Arti SharmaDecember 13, 2005The Australian

At last, the Howard Government has announced its intention to reform the Family Law Act,...

US should reconsider financial aid for Vanuatu
December 8, 2005The Australian Financial Review

Vanuatu is among a select group of countries eligible for hundreds of millions of dollars...

Self-help beats handout state
Peter SaundersDecember 6, 2005The Australian

Peter Costello's suggestion that bad parents should lose their welfare payments has provoked a predictable...

Simpler tax is easy, but where’s the political courage?
John HumphreysNovember 30, 2005The Australian

Reform is good. Sometimes, revolution is better. Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has announced his intention...

Individuals can make a difference in the face of global threats
Miranda DarlingNovember 22, 2005The Canberra Times

There are few countries in the world where the threat of a potential avian flu...

Africa needs free markets, not aid, to flee poverty
November 10, 2005The Canberra Times

All-star economist Jeffrey Sachs recently made a fly-by presentation in Sydney, calling for a new...

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That’s not democracy, this is democracy!
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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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