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Resetting the Pendulum: Balanced, Effective, Accountable Child Protection Systems and Adoption Reform in Australia

Jeremy SammutNovember 11, 2017RR33

The national significance of the NSW child protection and adoption reforms cannot be overstated. The...

The History Wars Matter

Jeremy SammutNovember 8, 2017OP159

Despite what the post-modern theorists claim, the nation remains the ultimate political reality. The power...

UBI – Universal Basic Income is an Unbelievably Bad Idea

Simon CowanNovember 5, 2017RR32

The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), paid by the government to its citizens...

Impact Investing: harnessing capital markets to solve societal problems

Josephine CashmanOctober 25, 2017OP158

In the post GFC environment, with the risk and return matrix and reputation risk to...

Getting the most out of Gonski 2.0: The evidence base for school investments

Blaise JosephOctober 14, 2017RR31

Schools should invest in evidence-based, cost-effective policies to improve literacy and numeracy results. Early literacy...

Medi-Mess: Rational Federalism and Patient Cost-Sharing for Public Hospital Sustainability in Australia

David Gadiel, Jeremy SammutJuly 16, 2017RR30

The latest attempt to ‘end the blame game’ between the state and federal governments over...

Doing the right thing

Barry MaleyApril 10, 2018The Spectator: Flat White

As calm settles over the cricket ball-tampering crisis and the extraordinary public reaction to it,...

South Australia’s trial of England’s year one phonics check shows why we need it

Jennifer Buckingham OAMApril 10, 2018The Conversation

The proposal to introduce a phonics check — employed in schools in England towards the...

Tax collectors: when did sinners become saints?

Eugenie JosephApril 6, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

It is curious that Australians can be so apathetic about high taxation. Being still in...

Why have a superannuation system?

Simon CowanApril 6, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Why have a superannuation system at all? It’s a question never asked during debates over...

Voters keeping our democracy alive

Charles JacobsApril 6, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Our two-party system is broken, Australian democracy is in a ‘parlous state’, and the populists...

Canberra needs more people like Peter Reith

Tom SwitzerApril 2, 2018Sydney Morning Herald

It is almost exactly 20 years since the epic waterfront dispute. Even at this distance...

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...