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Tax cuts fail to deliver the incentive they could have
October 7, 2020Financial Review

Incentive, productivity, stimulus, equity, debt. These are the key words in assessing the federal budget’s...

Jobs for all idea is not a keeper
Glenn FaheyOctober 4, 2020The Australian

Of course the best form of welfare is a job, but that’s no justification for...

RBA ‘indolence’ and reform
Peter TulipOctober 2, 2020Ideas@theCentre

Last week Paul Keating blasted the Reserve Bank of Australia for its ‘indolence’ and ‘timidity’....

Why income tax cuts should be brought forward
October 2, 2020Ideas@theCentre

Heavy hints from ministers that planned personal income tax cuts will be brought forward in...

‘Little knowledge’ budget
October 2, 2020Ideas@theCentre

The dictum that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing” rings very true in the...

Budget 2020: the overwhelming case for accelerated income tax cuts
October 1, 2020Spectator

Heavy hints from ministers that planned personal income tax cuts will be brought forward in...

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
September 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 HefferSeptember 10, 2019

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

Time to get tougher with the PRC?
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...

Australia’s choice in a US-China conflict
August 19, 2019

As China converts its growing economic power into military power, it will seek to dominate...

Anastasia Lin: China and human rights
Anastasia LinAugust 16, 2019

China uses its trade power as leverage to infiltrate institutions and bully virtually every Western...

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