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Where Your Tax Dollars Go
Robert CarlingJuly 9, 2014

Taxation is imposed through the coercive power of the state. Politicians often speak of “asking”...

Where Your Tax Dollars Go
Robert CarlingJuly 9, 2014SP14

Taxation is imposed through the coercive power of the state. Politicians often speak of “asking”...

Fairer Paid Parental Leave
Matthew TaylorJuly 7, 2014T30.11

Australia spends just under $1.4 billion (2012–13) on statutory Paid Parental Leave (PPL) to provide...

The Forgotten Freedom: Threats to Religious Liberty in Australia
Peter KurtiJuly 1, 2014PM139

The campaign for what has been dubbed ‘marriage equality’ is gaining ground in many Western...

Catholic Resistance to German State Persecution: Lessons for Modern Australia
Dyson Heydon, Peter Kurti, Robert ForsythMay 30, 2014OP134

Anti-Catholic sectarianism is on the rise in Australian society even though Australian Catholicism has made...

Withholding Dividends: Better ways to make the public sector efficient
Alexander PhilipatosMay 29, 2014T30.10

As the commission of audit has uncovered, the government must make significant cuts to spending...

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Australia’s Asia Literacy Non-Problem
September 4, 2012
Update on the Middle East
August 20, 2012
Interview Andrew Leigh Tommy Tudehope
August 16, 2012
Q&A Politics & Social Media: A New Spin?
August 14, 2012
Politics & Social Media: A New Spin?
August 14, 2012
Q&A Little Green Lies
August 6, 2012
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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