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Childcare in Australia: A new approach

Gigi FosterNovember 20, 2025RR51

Executive summary Several well-known bodies, from the Productivity Commission to the Australian Competition and Consumer...

Keeping Budgets on the Rails: Rules for Fiscal Responsibility

Robert CarlingNovember 13, 2025AP94

Executive Summary Fiscal rules are numerical limits to one or more of government spending, revenue,...

Political legitimacy, harm protections and our freedoms

Paul TaylorNovember 10, 2025OP211

This article considers different concepts of ‘legitimacy’ and their contribution to understanding the difference between...

The Unworkable Solution: An Economic Assessment of a Cashflow Tax for Australia

Sinclair DavidsonNovember 6, 2025AP93

Executive Summary Australia faces persistent economic challenges. Productivity growth has slowed, business investment is uneven,...

Knowledge is power: What do teachers believe about learning?

Trisha JhaOctober 30, 2025AP92

Executive Summary This report presents findings from literature about what teachers believe about how students...

2025 Neville Kennard Address: The Dire Plight of the Mainstream Right

Andrew NeilOctober 27, 2025OP210

This is an edited version of the speech given to the 2025 CIS Consilium event...

The sinister sharia sisterhood

Rebecca WeisserApril 7, 2017The Spectator

“Ayaan Hirsi (is) asking 4 an a$$ whippin’. I wish I could take (her) vagina...

Cuts are not deep enough

Michael PotterApril 7, 2017Ideas@TheCentre

Australia finally has a corporate tax cut, after almost a year of acrimonious — even...

Hirsi Ali’s critics show intolerance

Peter KurtiApril 7, 2017Ideas@TheCentre

Self-identifying promotors of ‘tolerance’ have shown, once again, they’re only willing to tolerate that which...

Promoters of ‘tolerance’ are selective

Peter KurtiApril 7, 2017

Self-identifying promoters of ‘tolerance’ have shown, once again, they’re only willing to tolerate that which...

Justice targets won’t help Indigenous incarceration rates

Sara HudsonApril 7, 2017Ideas@TheCentre

Pressure is mounting for the Prime Minister to introduce Indigenous justice targets. But having targets...

Penalising big companies means a bonsai economy

Michael PotterApril 6, 2017Australian Financial Review

Do we want a bonsai economy for Australia? Everything in miniature, with growth actively discouraged....

On Liberty EP23 Intellectual entrepreneur and founder of CIS

Salvatore Babones, Greg Lindsay AOSeptember 10, 2020On Liberty

We welcomed founder of CIS Greg Lindsay AO. From a backyard shed in Pennant Hills...

On Liberty EP22 Will we see a democratic China in our lifetime?

Salvatore Babones, Chin JinSeptember 3, 2020On Liberty

we are joined by Dr Chin Jin, president of the Federation for a Democratic China....

On Liberty EP21 Cancel culture will divide us

Salvatore Babones, Peter KurtiAugust 27, 2020On Liberty

Salvatore Babones speaks with Peter Kurti. Peter is Director of Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society...

On Liberty EP20 How the pandemic has accelerated trends

Salvatore Babones, Claire LehmannAugust 20, 2020On Liberty

Salvatore Babones spoke with Claire Lehmann. Claire is Australian journalist and the founding editor of...

On Liberty EP19 Should we increase university places?

Salvatore Babones, Andrew NortonAugust 13, 2020On Liberty

Salvatore Babones spoke with Andrew Norton, co-founder of CIS Liberty & Society and Professor of...

Do schools need a transformation?

Jordan Baker, Pasi Sahlberg, Greg AshmanAugust 13, 2020

A discussion between leading experts on the future of Australian education. Pasi Sahlberg and Greg...