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School Funding on a Budget
Jennifer Buckingham OAMApril 30, 2014T30.09

Government expenditure on schools has more than doubled in real terms in the last 25...

Still Damaging and Disturbing: Australian Child Protection Data and the Need for National Adoption Targets
Jeremy SammutApril 16, 2014IA145

In December 2013, the Abbott government announced plans to make it easier for Australian parents...

States of Debt
Robert CarlingMarch 20, 2014T30.07

While Commonwealth government debt has been the focus of attention recently, this report takes a...

Preserving Peace as China Rises I
Benjamin HerscovitchMarch 13, 2014FPA9

Inventive foreign policy that can simultaneously reassure the Indo-Pacific’s established powers and accommodate Chinese ambitions...

Why Jaydon Can’t Read: A Forum on Fixing Literacy
Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Justine Ferrari, Tom AlegounariasFebruary 18, 2014IA144

Many thousands of Australian students have very low levels of literacy after spending four or...

Conversation with Daniel Hannan
Nick CaterFebruary 14, 2014

Nick Cater in conversation with Daniel Hannan MEP February, 2014 Daniel Hannan is one of...

A Solution Worse Than the Disease
Monica WilkieApril 22, 2021Quadrant Online

The discussion about what should and should not be ‘allowed’ on social media has been,...

Cancel culture is destroying our society
April 16, 2021The Australian

As we approach the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, and the wave of...

States spoil Australia’s school scorecard
Glenn FaheyApril 14, 2021Financial Review

Arresting Australia’s educational decline calls for national leadership. And federal Education Minister Alan Tudge, has...

Biden’s global minimum tax is a trap for mobile capital
Robert CarlingApril 13, 2021Financial Review

If taxation is an enigma to all but tax experts, then global corporate tax is...

Captain America versus… Jordan Peterson?
Monica WilkieApril 12, 2021Spectator

The progressives’ latest offering of ‘woker-tainment’ shows they are more interested in political posturing than...

A democracy must protect pluralism at all costs
Simon CowanApril 10, 2021Canberra Times

The NSW government has just released its discussion paper on social media companies’ liability for...

On Liberty EP44 Australia’s Groundwater Crisis in the Making
Grahame Campbell, Salvatore BabonesMarch 24, 2021On Liberty

The dry continent is home to massive groundwater resources, but we don’t even know how...

On Liberty EP43 How big is big enough government?
Glenn FaheyMarch 17, 2021On Liberty

“The goal should be to shrink, focus and improve the state.” We welcomed Adam Smith...

On Liberty EP42 How an unprecedented presidency changed everything.
Salvatore BabonesMarch 10, 2021On Liberty

Donald Trump turned America on its head and shocked the world, taking an isolationist approach...

25 years since John Howard’s landslide election victory
John Howard OM ACMarch 9, 2021

4, March 2021 marked the 25th anniversary of the Howard Coalition government’s election. In honour...

On Liberty EP41 The Paradox of Prosperity
Salvatore Babones, Peter MurphyMarch 3, 2021On Liberty

Does prosperity depend on discipline, rational planning, and strict adherence to scientific principles? Or is...

On Liberty EP40 Biden shows he is no Barack Obama
Salvatore Babones, John LeeFebruary 24, 2021On Liberty

We welcomed former CIS scholar John Lee. Recently writing in The Australian, John highlighted the...

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