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Risky Business. How The Energy Transition Introduces Risks That Raise Retail Costs
Jude BlikOctober 23, 2025AP91

Executive Summary The electricity system in Australia is adjusting to an increase in the overall...

2025 John Bonython Lecture: The Axis of Autocracy – New World Disorder
Andrew NeilOctober 16, 2025OP209
Far from it being the end of history, the story of this century so far...
An economic walk on the supply side
Michael StutchburyOctober 16, 2025OP208

This is an edited version of Michael Stutchbury’s keynote address to the 2025 Freedom to...

Drawing the Line: Moral Conflict and the Fragility of Liberal Tolerance
Peter KurtiOctober 9, 2025AP90
Liberal democracies face an unprecedented challenge: how to govern societies where citizens no longer disagree...
The Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
Zoe Hilton, Michael Wu , Aidan MorrisonOctober 2, 2025AP89
The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the...
The rule of law, excessive regulation and free speech
Paul TaylorSeptember 11, 2025AP88

Foreword In the day that the 2024 parliamentary session concluded, more than 30 bills were...

The cost of PM’s gold-plated parental leave
Matthew TaylorMay 19, 2014The Canberra Times

Last week’s budget confirmed that some of the gold has been chipped off the Prime...

Rank case of vested interests protecting their turf
Cassandra WilkinsonMay 17, 2014The Australian

Complaining about taxi cabs has been a national pastime since horses were dragging them down...

Mixed messages on the handout front
Trisha JhaMay 17, 2014The Australian

It has been more than two years since Joe Hockey’s famous speech to the Institute...

The looming task of childcare
Trisha JhaMay 16, 2014

Buried in an innocuous-looking table in Statement 6 of Budget Paper 1 lies this hard...

Inflation must be in the tax review
Robert CarlingMay 16, 2014The Australian

Instead of thinking up new ways to extract more tax dollars from our pay packets,...

Revenue to the rescue
Robert CarlingMay 16, 2014

For all its rhetorical emphasis on expenditure restraint, the 2014-15 budget in fact relies heavily...

Why Jaydon Can’t Read: Justine Ferrari & Tom Alegounarias – Forum 2/3
January 20, 2014
Why Jaydon Can’t Read: Fixing Literacy – Forum 1/3
January 20, 2014
Strengthening Australia’s Fiscal Position – Dr Stephen Kirchner
December 11, 2013
Multiculturalism & the Fetish of Diversity – Peter Kurti
December 9, 2013
Cautiously Optimistic: Bourgeois Dignity & Global Prosperity
Deidre McCloskeyDecember 8, 2013

The Centre for Independent Studies’ 2013 John Bonython Lecture(JBL) was given by Professor Deirdre McCloskey,...

Deirdre McCloskey – John Bonython Lecture 2013
December 8, 2013
How loss of cheap energy pressures wage system | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyNovember 27, 2025

You can listen to The Stutchbury Sessions on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM or listen...

Dark Forces at Work? Sir Frank Lowy on the Return of Antisemitism | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyOctober 10, 2025Liberalism in Question

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Iron, Ideas, and Abundance: Supply Side Mistakes and Lessons | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 26, 2025

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Why Australians Vote for Big Government | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 19, 2025

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Our Prosperity is Slipping Away | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 16, 2025

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Protests, Polarisation and Immigration | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 15, 2025

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