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Accountable Authoritarianism: Why China’s Democratic Deficit Will Last
Benjamin HerscovitchOctober 31, 2013FPA8

The Chinese Communist Party’s evolving model of ‘accountable authoritarianism’ is set to prove that prosperity...

Overcoming Governance and Cost Challenges for Australian Public Hospitals: The Foundation Trust Alternative
Jeremy Sammut, Peter PhelanOctober 13, 2013PM137

Australia will face problems funding its public hospital and other publicly funded health services if...

The Right to the Good Life: Improving Educational Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
Marcia LangtonOctober 1, 2013OP133

Education is a key ideological battleground in debates about how to address Indigenous disadvantage. Yet,...

Saving Medicare: The Case for Market-Based Health Reform
Jeremy SammutAugust 27, 2013

Paper for the Catholic Health Conference Australia. 26-28 August, 2013 Good morning ladies and gentlemen,...

The future of education — a structural perspective
Jennifer Buckingham OAMAugust 22, 2013

AISNSW Executive Conference, Killcare NSW Thursday 22 August 2013 The Centre for Independent Studies For...

Shrink Taxation by Shrinking Government!
Robert CarlingAugust 7, 2013T30.04

  Shrink Taxation by Shrinking Government! explores the link between tax reform and smaller government...

Threshold issues for a tax system that creates jobs
Peter SaundersNovember 30, 2001The Australian Financial Review

An important debate is taking place in Australia about the future of welfare, taxation and...

What’s fair about defining disadvantage?
November 30, 2001Melbourne University Campus Review

Under draft policies, for the first time a ‘low SES’ classification would deliver significant benefits...

What future exists for Afghanistan? Any solution must address the drug trade and the plight of women
Helen HughesNovember 30, 2001The Australian Financial Review

The lands of central Asia have a sorry history of warfare, dating back to the...

Why multicultural Australia is less welcome
Helen HughesNovember 29, 2001The Age

Now that the electorate has shown resounding support for a principled approach to asylum seekers,...

Set our unis free
November 21, 2001The Australian

It takes some imagination to describe Australia’s universities as showing ‘clear indications of market failure’,...

Loss for education before polls closed
November 15, 2001The Canberra Times

Even before the polling booths closed on 10 November, the higher education interest groups had...

Ideas with Impact
Tom SwitzerJune 20, 2018

The CIS has been championing ideas for a better Australia for over 40 years. Help...

Life on the crossbench
David LeyonhjelmJune 5, 2018

Senator Leyonhjelm shared his thoughts about life on the crossbench and what makes him different...

Shaping the NSW Budget
Dominic PerrottetMay 30, 2018

As Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet is focused on financial discipline and making better use of the...

The audacity of Xi Jinping
Rowan Callick, Tom SwitzerMay 18, 2018

Xi Jinping seeks to entrench his legitimacy as unchallengeable ruler for the next decade or...

Australia’s miracle economy
Peter Costello, Simon CowanMay 14, 2018

Peter Costello delivered 12 budgets — 10 of them surpluses — and when he left...

Australia’s Energy Debate
Audrey ZibelmanApril 24, 2018

Ms Zibelman leads AEMO, the independent gas and electricity system and market operator in Australia,...

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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