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MEDI-VALUE: Health Insurance and Service Innovation in Australia – Implications for the Future of Medicare
Jeremy SammutApril 20, 2016Research Report 14

For healthcare innovation to flourish there needs to be a real market for health services...

Investor-State Arbitration and the Rule of Law: Debunking the Myths
Patrick CarvalhoApril 13, 2016Research Report 13

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is a legal provision in international agreements that enables foreign investors...

Taming the Monster: Reforming Personal Income Tax
Robert CarlingApril 5, 2016Research Report 12

Without any change in personal income tax rates or thresholds, the tax burden will increase...

Read about it: Scientific evidence for effective teaching of reading
Kerry Hempenstall, Jennifer Buckingham OAMMarch 7, 2016Research Report 11

Five from Five is now a community education project supported by MultiLit, a reading program...

Untangling childcare and family policy
Trisha JhaMarch 5, 2016

Speech given by CIS Policy Analyst Trisha Jha to the NSW Liberal Party’s Rural and...

The myths of the generational bargain
Simon CowanMarch 1, 2016Research Report 10

There has been a marked growth in pension cost and cohort. The percentage of people...

Prison
Don’t let death become an easy way out for criminals
Peter KurtiSeptember 3, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH
Hume’s death raises serious questions. Not just about his rights, but about ours. About the...
The end of cash for diagnosis? Now that would be a good thing
Steven SchwartzAugust 28, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN
The Albanese government’s plan to divert children with mild developmental delays out of the NDIS...
Productivity roundtable’s uncertain impact. What was the point?
Simon CowanAugust 23, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
Surely it was not the 10 supposed reform directions, some of which contradict the others...
degrowth
Summit must end national complacency about Australia’s prosperity
August 18, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
The Economic Reform Roundtable should commit to making Australia an aspirational and enterprise-driven, high-growth nation...
What Would Tocqueville Say About the NDIS? 
Greg LindsayAugust 15, 2025SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE

A curious query was put to me recently: What would Alexis de Tocqueville say about...

At this rate, the only outcome from this summit will be making us poorer
Simon CowanAugust 9, 2025CANBERRA TIMES

As we approach the productivity summit to end all summits, the various players have begun...

The Morality of Capitalism
June 2, 2015
The rise of China’s imperial president
May 12, 2015
The rise of China’s imperial president
May 12, 2015
The rise of China’s imperial president
May 12, 2015
How to fix the Age Pension
April 28, 2015
Freedom of Speech Symposium
April 27, 2015
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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