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Emergency Budget Repair Kit
Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Jeremy Sammut, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan, Trisha JhaNovember 21, 2013T30.05

The new Abbott government should address its self-identified budget emergency by cutting wasteful spending now....

The Task Ahead: The Hon Joe Hockey MP
Joe HockeyNovember 8, 2013

The Task Ahead It’s a great pleasure to be addressing the Centre for Independent Studies...

Accountable Authoritarianism: Why China’s Democratic Deficit Will Last
Benjamin HerscovitchOctober 31, 2013FPA8

The Chinese Communist Party’s evolving model of ‘accountable authoritarianism’ is set to prove that prosperity...

Overcoming Governance and Cost Challenges for Australian Public Hospitals: The Foundation Trust Alternative
Jeremy Sammut, Peter PhelanOctober 13, 2013PM137

Australia will face problems funding its public hospital and other publicly funded health services if...

The Right to the Good Life: Improving Educational Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
Marcia LangtonOctober 1, 2013OP133

Education is a key ideological battleground in debates about how to address Indigenous disadvantage. Yet,...

Saving Medicare: The Case for Market-Based Health Reform
Jeremy SammutAugust 27, 2013

Paper for the Catholic Health Conference Australia. 26-28 August, 2013 Good morning ladies and gentlemen,...

Is Covid-zero a viable long-term strategy?
Simon CowanAugust 14, 2021Canberra Times

On Thursday, the ACT became the latest jurisdiction to enter a snap lockdown at just...

Rationalists Are Making a Deal With the Devil to Push Out Religion in Australia
Peter KurtiAugust 13, 2021Epoch Times

Every five years, Australians complete the Census survey to give governments the information needed to...

A public holiday for a cancelled event? You can’t get much more corona-crazy
Scott PrasserAugust 9, 2021Spectator

Those south of the Queensland border may have heard of the Brisbane Exhibition — or...

Myanmar Coup – a turning point for the Rohingya people
Anjali NadaradjaneAugust 4, 2021Epoch Times

The coup d’état in Myanmar earlier this year, may have dismantled the fragile foundations of...

Labor’s tax backflip poses a bigger question: Why is treating people equally is increasingly seen as unfair?
Simon CowanJuly 31, 2021Canberra Times

Labor has formally announced it will abandon many of the tax policies it took to...

Protesting Harsh Restrictions Doesn’t Necessarily Make You an Anarchist
Peter KurtiJuly 30, 2021Epoch Times

Lockdown opponents took to the streets of Sydney’s CBD in late July, in defiance of...

Women in Politics
Eugenie JosephJanuary 31, 2019

Our panel of speakers thrashed out the issues surrounding women in politics. Are setting affirmative-action...

Political correctness and its discontents
Brendan O'Neill, Jeremy SammutJanuary 13, 2019

Join Brendan O’Neill, one of Britain’s quirkiest, wittiest and liveliest commentators, in conversation with Jeremy...

The 2018 CIS Nanny Awards
Steven SchwartzDecember 13, 2018

The 2018 CIS Nanny Awards take a look back at the year’s best and most...

The Crisis of Democracy
Janet AlbrechtsenNovember 23, 2018

For generations, we just assumed democracy is fixed and given. However, all across the world,...

Bill McMahon, an eccentric economic reformer?
Paul Kelly, John Howard OM ACNovember 21, 2018

William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics. Was...

Individualism and the Paradox of Affirmative Action
Daniel HannanNovember 16, 2018

Daniel Hannan is a leading British writer and journalist. After 17 years as a Member...

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