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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...

Rioting UK students are misguided

Peter SaundersDecember 17, 2010

Thousands of student radicals and hangers-on smashed up London last week, desecrating the Cenotaph (Britain's...

Time to celebrate the wealth creation that makes giving possible

Stephen KirchnerDecember 17, 2010

'Tis the season of giving, and giving is nowhere more fashionable than among the world's...

Reform must start with Medicare

Jeremy SammutDecember 17, 2010Australian Medicine

The Gillard Government’s health reforms will not solve the biggest problem in the system –...

Europe’s self-inflicted crisis

Oliver Marc HartwichDecember 16, 2010ABC News

To superficial observers, this week's European summit in Brussels will look like any other high-level...

A fundamental Euro flaw

Oliver Marc HartwichDecember 16, 2010Business Spectator

As the leaders of the European Union gather for their last big summit of 2010...

Tearing Chindia apart

John LeeDecember 15, 2010Business Spectator

After the failed Copenhagen summit to discuss global action against climate change, many observers of...

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...