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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...

Independent Charities, Independent Regulators: The Future of Not-for-Profit Regulation
Helen AndrewsFebruary 6, 2014IA143

The Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission was established by the Gillard government in 2012 with...

Free the teachers to help the students: Parental choice in schooling will improve education
Jennifer Buckingham OAMJanuary 23, 2002The Australian

A systematic comparison of the academic results of state and non-government schools has been a...

Poverty lines tangled: An influential report claiming that one in eight Australians lives in poverty is wrong
Kayoko TsumoriJanuary 17, 2002The Age

Our paper, Poor Arguments: A Response to the Smith Family Report on Poverty in Australia...

For richer or poorer, we’re still a lucky country: Don’t exaggerate the extent of poverty in Australia
Peter SaundersJanuary 16, 2002The Australian

The Australian economy experienced remarkable growth during most of the 1990s.  Yet social researchers are...

Risk of being burnt in the melting pot: There are costs to a society in taking in more asylum seekers
Helen HughesJanuary 4, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Asylum seekers have become, in parallel with terrorism and consequent on it, the first major...

The wasted decade: In the 90’s, America had unprecedented power, but did little with it. It must now rue its lost opportunity.
Owen HarriesDecember 18, 2001The Age

In the lead article of the current issue of the US journal Foreign Affairs, Fouad...

A generation drowns in boos: Repairing society’s attitude to rearing children would be revolutionary
Frank DevineDecember 13, 2001The Australian

Peter Saunders, Professor of sociology at the University of Sussex, said something dreadful at a...

Parental School Choice in Australia
Fiona Mueller, Michael Nuttall, Dallas McInerney, Dianne Giblin, Glenn FaheyNovember 26, 2019

Led by Fiona Mueller, the CIS education program focuses on School Choice and School Funding...

I’ll write what I damn well please
Lionel ShriverSeptember 23, 2019

The John Bonython Lecture is the annual Gala event for the Centre for Independent Studies....

Identity Politics, Political Correctness and #MeToo
Lionel ShriverSeptember 23, 2019

Award winning American author and opinion writer Lionel Shriver delivered this year’s JBL lecture. She...

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo: US-Australia Relations
Mike Pompeo, Marise Payne, Tom SwitzerSeptember 19, 2019

It’s not often that an Australian think tank gets to host the world’s leading diplomat,...

Boris Johnson and British Conservatism
Simon Heffer, Tom SwitzerSeptember 10, 2019

Hear from Simon Heffer, a leading conservative commentator who has known Boris Johnson for three...

Time to get tougher with the PRC?
Jason Yat-sen Li, Anastasia Lin, Salvatore Babones, Private: Sue Windybank – Do not Use – DuplicateAugust 24, 2019

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s increasingly hardline rule at home and growing assertiveness abroad show few...

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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