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Real Choice for Ageing Australians: Achieving the Benefits of the Consumer-Directed Aged Care Reforms in the New Economy
Jeremy SammutApril 9, 2017RR24

The consumer-directed aged care (CDC) reforms are an important opportunity to showcase the benefits of...

Report Card on State Finances
Robert CarlingFebruary 19, 2017RR23

The Commonwealth government’s perilous financial position is well known, but the finances of state government...

Politically-Feasible Health Reform: Whatever Will It Take?
Jeremy Sammut, Peta Seaton, Gerald Thomas, Terry BarnesDecember 7, 2016OP153

Despite the ever-escalating cost of health posing severe fiscal sustainability challenges, health reform has been...

Rediscovering Humility: Religious Freedom in a 21st Century Pluralist Society
Tim WilsonDecember 5, 2016OP151

Religious liberty is central to the Australian way of life. It is enshrined in the...

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...

Charities must support rules
Peter SaundersAugust 28, 2006The Australian

The federal Government and the welfare lobby have fallen out yet again over the way...

Australia’s water works
Roger BateAugust 23, 2006The Wall Street Journal

As much of Asia struggles with water shortages, Australia’s agricultural sector is thriving, despite its...

We lead the world on water
August 17, 2006The Courier Mail

Queensland’s water plan is similar to plans in other arid parts of the world. But...

Fees don’t dictate uni choices
August 14, 2006The Age

Labor’s higher education policy contains much that is new, but one proposal is a return...

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...

On Liberty EP95 No Harm Done from Harm Reduction
Glenn Fahey, Mr Simon BrehenyJuly 20, 2022On Liberty
Simon Breheny argues heavy-handed regulations are not the answer to improving heath outcomes. Education, rather...
On Liberty EP94 Early literacy important for later success
Pam Snow, Glenn FaheyJuly 6, 2022On Liberty
Glenn Fahey speaks with Professor Pamela Snow to discuss the correlation between poor literacy education...
On Liberty EP93 Energy can’t be spun
Chris Uhlmann, Tom SwitzerJune 29, 2022On Liberty
Guest host Tom Switzer speaks to journalist Chris Uhlmann on the likelihood of a clean...
Reclaiming our classrooms from disruption
Tom Bennett, Glenn FaheyJune 28, 2022
CIS education program director Glenn Fahey and one of the world’s leading practitioners of classroom...
On Liberty EP92 Ethical farming: Fad or Future?
Salvatore BabonesJune 15, 2022On Liberty
Emma Hurst MLC, member of the NSW Upper House, joins host Salvatore Babones to discuss...
On Liberty EP91 Have the next generation lost interest in politics?
Salvatore Babones, Deyi WuJune 1, 2022On Liberty
President of the NSW Young Liberals, Deyi Wu joins host Salvatore Babones to discuss whether...
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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