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Our media releases, opinion pieces, commentary, videos and audio podcasts are available in this section. Our experts are able to comment on a range of policy areas amd issues. Please contact our Communications Director, Karla Pincott via phone 0407 716 752 or email kpincott@cis.org.au

Why we should defend capitalism
Eugenie JosephNovember 28, 2018PP12

Capitalism has become a controversial idea in recent years; yet economic markets and free enterprise...

Why God is Good for You
Greg SheridanNovember 28, 2018OP169

Conversation with The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan and CIS senior research fellow Peter Kurti...

Have We All Gone Mad? The Snowflake Epidemic
Steven Schwartz, Lindsay Shepherd, Claire Lehmann, Tiffany JenkinsNovember 22, 2018OP168

University campuses throughout the West are in the grip of a troubling social phenomenon, now...

Australian Attitudes to Immigration: Coming Apart or Common Ground?
Jeremy Sammut, Monica WilkieNovember 18, 2018PP11

Immigration has been a contentious political issue in Australia and overseas for a number of...

University Freedom Charters: How best to protect free speech on Australian campuses
Jeremy SammutOctober 7, 2018PP10

This POLICY Paper recommends how and why a ‘university freedom charters’ policy that is backed...

Conflict vs Mistake: Academic cultures and explanatory conflict
Claire LehmannSeptember 11, 2018OP167

The 2018 Helen Hughes Lecture explains why and how universities are fuelling the corrosive identity...

Comment: Education does not need Commonwealth in schools
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 3, 2014Canberra Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age

Ahead of the federal government’s ‘white paper’ on reform of the federation, an issues paper...

Don’t Save the Charity Commission
Helen AndrewsOctober 3, 2014

An interesting letter arrived at the CIS office this week. Dr Andrew Leigh MP wrote...

Comment: Human right to the dole is nonsense
Peter KurtiOctober 2, 2014Daily Telegraph

These days any political, social or economic problem is quickly cast as a human rights...

The truth about fact checkers
Matthew TaylorSeptember 26, 2014

The ABC’s Fact Check website was launched in August last year on a mission to...

A balancing act: home schooling regulation
Jennifer Buckingham OAMSeptember 26, 2014

Most parents never progress beyond day-dreaming about home schooling, but it is becoming increasingly mainstream...

False conflation of classical liberalism
Cassandra WilkinsonSeptember 26, 2014

The phrase neo-Liberal gets thrown around a lot, most recently as a prefix to 'Abbott...

Antisemitism Is Not a Jewish Problem, It’s an Australian Problem | Frydenberg, Finlay & Sackville
Peter Kurti, Michael Stutchbury, Josh Frydenberg, Lorraine Finlay, Ronald Sackville AO KCApril 10, 2026

Michael Stutchbury, Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Studies, opens this panel discussion with...

Australia’s Hate Speech Failure | Dimitri Burshtein
Dimitri BurshteinMarch 31, 2026

The tragic events at Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025 expose a deepening crisis in...

Behind Every Great Teacher Is a Great System | David Didau, Jenny Donovan & Trisha Jha
Trisha Jha, David Didau, Jenny DonovanMarch 20, 2026

David Didau — education consultant, teacher trainer, and author of Making Kids Cleverer and Intelligent...

Housing, handouts, and the Collapse of the Australian Dream
Parnell McGuinnessMarch 19, 2026

Over the past several decades, Australian society has undergone profound economic, social, and cultural change....

“The 50% discount is unfair” and other CGT myths | Robert Carling & Michael Stutchbury
Robert Carling, Michael StutchburyMarch 11, 2026

The criticisms and characterization of the 50% capital gains tax discount over many years have...

The Case for Optimism: More People, More Ideas, More Wealth | Marian Tupy
Marian L. Tupy, Michael StutchburyMarch 6, 2026

Marian Tupy — editor of HumanProgress.org, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and co-author of...

The Impact of the Shadow Carbon Price
Karla PincottJuly 1, 2024What You Need to Know About

The federal, state and territory Energy Ministers have introduced a shadow carbon price for the...

The Art of Opposition
Tom Switzer, Andrew Blyth, John Howard OM ACJuly 1, 2024

Oppositions hold governments to account, raise issues of public concern, represent aggrieved citizens, propose alternative...

Is the market more efficient than the government? | Robert Carling
Robert Forsyth, Robert CarlingJuly 1, 2024Liberalism in Question

#auspol #freemarket #economics Robert Carling is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies....

The six fundamental flaws underpinning the energy transition
Karla Pincott, Aidan MorrisonJuly 1, 2024What You Need to Know About

The Australian Government wants to transition our electricity system to net zero carbon emissions by...

Being a Rational Optimist in a Woke World | Matthew Ridley
Robert Forsyth, Matt RidleyMay 7, 2024Liberalism in Question

Matthew Ridley is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He is known for his...

How to Build Low-Cost Nuclear: Lessons from the world
Aidan MorrisonApril 13, 2024Research Collection

How to Build Low-Cost Nuclear: Lessons from the world by Aidan Morrision. First published on...

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