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Exposing the Stealth Tax: the Bracket Creep rip-off

Robert Carling, Michael PotterDecember 13, 2015Research Report 8

View Interactive Snapshot Bracket creep occurs when taxpayers pay a higher tax rate as their...

Youth Unemployment in Australia

Patrick CarvalhoNovember 22, 2015Research Report 7

This report looks at quantifying the rising youth unemployment problem, understanding its causes and proposing...

The Madness of Australian Child Protection: Why Adoption Will Rescue Australia’s Underclass Children

Jeremy SammutNovember 11, 2015Connorcourt Publishing

Why are Australian children abused and neglected in plain sight of the child welfare authorities...

Should a Baker be Forced to Bake Cakes for Same Sex Weddings: Democracy and the Rights and Limits of Religion and Conscience in Contemporary Australia

Anthony FisherNovember 6, 2015OP143

How important are religious liberty and freedom of conscience is in modern statecraft and nation-building?...

National Security and Counter-Terrorism

George BrandisNovember 6, 2015

On Friday 6 Nov. Senator the Hon. George Brandis QC, the Commonwealth Attorney-General, Vice-President of...

Health Innovation

Rohan Mead, Mark Fitzgibbon, Angus Taylor, Jeremy SammutSeptember 22, 2015Event Speeches

It’s time to reposition health research. In the wake of the Medicare co-payment debate it...

Time to fit the crime

Barry MaleyFebruary 2, 2001The Courier Mail

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen’s person and property, and to...

A Fair Go for all Schools

Jennifer Buckingham OAMJanuary 24, 2001The Herald Sun

It is possible to deceive people without telling lies. In support of their campaign against...

The Paradox of Australian Liberalism

Greg MelleuishJanuary 22, 2001The Australian Financial Review

In colonial Australia the majority of people called themselves liberals and saw liberalism as the...

Pass the Bucks

January 12, 2001The Courier Mail

The idea that Australia’s universities are dumbing down is gaining currency. The latest argument is...

Children Missing in the Young Country

Barry MaleyJanuary 9, 2001The Courier Mail

To keep the level of Australia’s population steady, without immigration, an average of 2.1 births...

Commercialising highways

Robert W. PooleNovember 20, 2000

Most people consider the modern auto-highway system a great success. In the United States, automobiles...

Why India’s Democracy Doesn’t Make Sense to Western Experts | Salvatore Babones

Salvatore Babones, Tom SwitzerJuly 31, 2025

India maintains the world’s largest democracy with 75 years of continuous constitutional rule – yet...

How to vandalise savings: the new superannuation tax | Robert Carling

Robert CarlingJuly 25, 2025

Australia’s new superannuation tax will target balances over $3 million. Yet, what seems like a...

National Identity vs Moral Diversity: Can Australia Hold Together? | Peter Kurti & Jude Blik

Peter Kurti, Jude BlikJuly 24, 2025

When Peter Kurti published “The Ties That Bind: Reconciling Value Pluralism and National Identity in...

The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument About Identity | Tim Franks

Tom SwitzerJuly 9, 2025

Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, Israel’s war in Gaza and escalating regional tensions...

Evidence vs Ideology: Why the Science of Learning Matters?

Doctor Carl Hendrick, Doctor Simon Breakspear, Glenn FaheyJune 26, 2025

As Australian student outcomes decline and education inequality persists, a growing movement is challenging the...

The Freedom Trap: The Chains of Choice | Priyan Max Jeganathan

Robert ForsythJune 25, 2025

“Freedom or death!” The rallying cry of revolutions, constitutions, and rights movements shaped the modern...