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How to Build Low-Cost Nuclear: Lessons from the world
April 11, 2024AP65
In practice, the cost of nuclear energy depends on policy choices about how a nuclear...
The Truth About The Tax Burden
Robert CarlingApril 4, 2024PP56
While the focus is usually on income tax paid to the federal government, the reality...
Bracket Creep: Raiding our wallets
Matthew Taylor, Robert CarlingMarch 25, 2024RR48
Tax increases are built into Australia’s personal income tax policy by default. In fact, in...
Reimagining Teacher Professionalism. Why standards must be part of ITE reform
Rebecca BirchMarch 21, 2024AP64

1. Executive Summary The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Standards) do not adequately outline what...

Mind over matter. The philosophical arguments around AI, natural intelligence and memory
John SwellerMarch 7, 2024OP200

Foreword Though artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a greater part of our everyday lives, the...

Implementing the Science of Learning: teacher experiences
Trisha JhaFebruary 22, 2024RR47

Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Background and policy context A pathway for advancing the...

Labor focus is on the wrong health problem
Jeremy SammutSeptember 8, 2007The Newcastle Herald

A Rudd Labor government will spend $220 million to establish "GP super clinics" in regional...

Trade skills lose out to scarfie lifestyle
Phil RennieSeptember 7, 2007The National Business Review

Do we really need so many students, especially when it’s so expensive for both the...

Future medicine only for those who help themselves
Jeremy SammutSeptember 7, 2007The Advertiser

This not only points to ever-greater capacity constraints in public hospitals. It also points to...

Poor way to detect poverty
Peter SaundersSeptember 5, 2007The Australian Finanacial Review

Someone at the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) is forgetting their Aesop. You will...

It’s always a case of another year, another excuse for not slashing Australia’s tax burden
Alex RobsonSeptember 5, 2007The Canberra Times

There is a famous gag in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip in which the very...

Extend a hand to an absent friend
Helen HughesSeptember 4, 2007The Australian

Although Sydney loves a party and gave world winners for the 2000 Olympics and the...

On Liberty EP90 Prime Minister Albanese and a Labor Government
Salvatore Babones, Janet AlbrechtsenMay 25, 2022On Liberty
This week we speak to Janet Albrechtsen, columnist for The Australian to discuss the 2022...
Ethics, values, and moral humility in a changing world
Margaret Somerville, Peter KurtiMay 24, 2022
CIS welcomed Margaret Somerville to discuss the ethics and autonomy of providing protection in the...
Ensuring Australia’s maths teaching adds up to success
Eddie Woo, Greg Ashman, Glenn Fahey, Jenny DonovanMay 19, 2022
Hear from two of Australia's leading mathematics educators, Eddie Woo and Greg Ashman, as they...
On Liberty EP89 China’s expanse into the Pacific Islands
Salvatore Babones, Mihai SoraMay 18, 2022On Liberty
This week's guest Mihai Sora joins us to discuss China's expending presence in the pacific...
On Liberty EP88 Present at the Creation of Wokism
Salvatore Babones, Mr Bob CatleyMay 12, 2022On Liberty
On the show this week, we welcome Professor Bob Catley, as he discusses the creation...
On Liberty EP87 Constitution counts for Australia’s politics and society
Xavier Boffa, Glenn FaheyMay 4, 2022On Liberty
On the show this week, we welcome Executive Director of the Samuel Griffith Society, Xavier...
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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