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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...

Why Australia’s socialist Prime Minister now loves America
John LeeMarch 11, 2011The Weekly Standard

As the secretary of the extreme left-wing group Socialist Forum during her student days in...

Money well spent?
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMarch 11, 2011

The newly released 2010 Indigenous Expenditure Report confirms that Indigenous disadvantage is not the result...

New Zealand is in a dangerous debt spiral
Oliver Marc HartwichMarch 10, 2011Business Spectator

The earthquake that struck Christchurch two weeks ago was not only a national catastrophe for...

Protecting bad teachers produces chronic failure
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMarch 9, 2011The Australian

Take two schools in very remote Australia, 20km apart: in 2009, the indigenous school received...

Party needs to loosen its grip
John LeeMarch 9, 2011The Australian Financial Review

Over the weekend, Premier Wen Jiabao told the National People’s Congress (NPC) that China will...

Education the key to living in two worlds
Sara HudsonMarch 8, 2011Online Opinion

Key to the maintenance of a cultural or ethnic identity is the passing on of...

Never Bet Against The United States
John Bolton, Stan GrantSeptember 20, 2022

Speaking at the 2022 John Bonython Lecture and Gala Dinner Ambassador John Bolton and Stan...

The U.S. vs the China-Russia entente
John BoltonSeptember 16, 2022
Speaking at the 2022 John Bonython Lecture, Ambassador Bolton addressed the U.S. vs the China-Russia...
On Liberty EP99 Teachers and nurses deserve choice, not monopoly unions
Glenn FaheySeptember 14, 2022On Liberty
We welcomed Red Union Managing Director, Jack McGuire to discuss whether Australia’s teachers and nurses...
A Sense of Balance Book Launch
John Howard OM AC, Ticky FullertonSeptember 8, 2022
We welcomed former Prime Minister John Howard OM AC for the launch of his book...
On Liberty EP98 The Territory Gap
Salvatore Babones, Peter GregoryAugust 31, 2022On Liberty
We welcomed Peter Gregory, author of the recent CIS paper The Territory Gap: Comparing Australia's...
Indian Democracy at 75: Troubled or Triumphant?
Tony Abbott, Salvatore Babones, Aarti Sharad SeksariaAugust 18, 2022
CIS welcomed former PM Tony Abbott to discuss the state of Indian democracy 75 years...
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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