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Our media releases, opinion pieces, commentary, videos and audio podcasts are available in this section. Our experts are able to comment on a range of policy areas amd issues. Please contact our Communications Director, Karla Pincott via phone 0407 716 752 or email kpincott@cis.org.au

Indigenous Employment, Unemployment and Labour Force Participation: Facts for Evidence Based Policies
Helen HughesFebruary 10, 2010PM107

More than 300,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders—60% of those identifying as Indigenous—are in the...

Behind the Moral Curtain: The Politics of a Charter of Rights
Elise ParhamFebruary 1, 2010PM106

In September 2009, the National Human Rights Consultation recommended that the federal government draft and...

Shooting the Messenger: The Ban on Short Selling
John M. Green, Stephen Kirchner, Robert BianchiFebruary 1, 2010PF19

In September 2008, governments around the world instituted bans on the short sale of equity...

Closing the Accountability Gap: The First Step Towards Better Indigenous Health
Sara HudsonDecember 3, 2009PM105

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s pledge to ‘Close the Gap’ between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health outcomes...

Like the Curate’s Egg: A Market-based Response and Alternative to the Bennett Report
Jeremy SammutNovember 26, 2009PM104

The final report of the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission (NHHRC or the Commission),...

Reforming Capital Gains Tax: The Myths and Reality behind Australia’s Most Misunderstood Tax
Stephen KirchnerNovember 12, 2009PM103

Capital gains tax (CGT) has been a feature of the Australian tax system since 1985....

Postcolonial guilt-trippers are doing more harm than good
Peter KurtiApril 9, 2022The Australian

Two years ago, the Australian ­winter was marred by vandalism of statues commemorating notable figures...

The new national school curriculum should be celebrated
Glenn FaheyApril 6, 2022Canberra Times

Australia’s educators and policymakers now have a less cluttered, clearer, and more knowledge-based school curriculum,...

A Budget That Voters Want? We’ll Find Out
Peter TulipApril 5, 2022Epoch Times

The most striking feature of Tuesday’s 2022-23 federal budget is how well the Australian economy...

Religious Believers in Australia Get Protections, Not Freedom
Peter KurtiNovember 23, 2021Epoch Times

Time appeared to be running out for the Australian government to deliver on its 2019...

We really don’t want to have to deal with runaway inflation
Simon CowanNovember 20, 2021Canberra Times

Last week it was revealed that US Consumer Price Index rose by more than 6%...

Ties between Delhi and Canberra crucial to Indo-Pacific security
C. Raja MohanNovember 11, 2021Spectator

The relationship between India and Australia has grown rapidly in recent years, underpinned by a...

The Next Pandemic; China’s Coronavirus
Doug Bandow, Private: Sue Windybank – Do not Use – Duplicate, Salvatore BabonesFebruary 24, 2020

But what happens if the virus can’t be suppressed? How significant will the economic loss...

The Skeptical Environmentalist
Bjorn LomborgFebruary 14, 2020

The world’s governments have picked 169 well-meaning targets, promising everything to everyone. But too many...

2020 Iowa Caucus Elections, confusion and delays. Trump claims victory.
Doug BandowFebruary 5, 2020

Many seasoned experts of American politics believe Donald Trump is the most vulnerable first-term president...

Revitalising the Australian Economy
Tony Abbott, Paul KellyJanuary 29, 2020

To launch Restoring Hope: Practical Policies to Revitalise the Australian Economy by Andrew Stone, CIS...

Changing the Debate around Australian Indigenous Policy
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO, Anthony DillonJanuary 24, 2020

Changing the Debate; Our expert panel comprised of CIS’s Indigenous Program director, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price,...

The 2019 CIS Nanny Awards
Steven SchwartzDecember 11, 2019

The 2019 CIS Nanny Awards take a look back at the year’s best and most...

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