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Australia’s Future Fiscal Shock
Robert CarlingSeptember 28, 2012IA134

Australia’s Future Fiscal Shock. Robert Carling is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent...

Australia’s Asia Literacy Non-Problem
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 5, 2012IA133

New large-scale Asia literacy programs are not necessary for Australia to prosper in the Asian...

What’s New with Anti-Semitism?
Paul Kelly, Peter Kurti, Philip MendesAugust 13, 2012PF24

In 2011, criticism of Israeli government domestic policy intensified in Australia with the emergence of...

How the NSW Coalition Should Govern Health: Strategies for Microeconomic Reform
David Gadiel, Jeremy SammutJuly 11, 2012PM128

In an ever-tightening fiscal environment, the focus of NSW health policy must be the microeconomic...

Indigenous Education 2012
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesJune 27, 2012PM129

In 2008, governments reduced their Indigenous literacy and numeracy target from ‘fix the problem in...

The Condensed Wealth of Nations and The Incredibly Condensed Theory of Moral Sentiments
Eamonn ButlerJune 12, 2012OP126

Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is one of the most important books ever written....

education
How to solve Australia’s puzzling education conundrum
Simon Cowan, Glenn FaheySeptember 24, 2022CANBERRA TIMES

Although it’s hard to get too excited by yet another review, there is potential for...

Truancy
Truancy is a scandal, but don’t blame the kids
Glenn FaheySeptember 22, 2022AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

It may not shock you to learn that regular school attendance is crucial to students’...

Stop seeing the Voice as easy ESG points
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 20, 2022Financial Review

Last week the Chairman of CSL and the CEO of Lendlease threw their support behind...

How Woke Won - Joanna Williams - review
How Woke Won: book review
Peter KurtiSeptember 18, 2022QUADRANT

HOW WOKE WON: The Elitist Movement that Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason. Joanna Williams, (London:...

Queensland land tax
Queensland land tax imposes a new national tax
Robert CarlingSeptember 14, 2022EPOCH TIMES

Queensland’s government proclaims in the spirit of the state’s long-standing fiscal tradition that it “is...

AFL Indigenous round
AFLW’s poor decision to boycott minute’s silence for Queen Elizabeth because of Indigenous Round
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 13, 2022SKY NEWS

The Australian Football League is one of Australia’s most popular, well-funded and privileged sporting codes...

On Liberty EP71 Taiwan should be allowed to join the CPTPP, but will China let it?
Salvatore Babones, Natasha KassamOctober 6, 2021On Liberty

We talked to Natasha Kassam, director (Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program) at the Lowy...

On Liberty EP70 AUKUS, AUSMIN, and the “forever” alliance
Salvatore Babones, Peter JenningsSeptember 29, 2021On Liberty

We talked to Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), about...

Generations Apart: Richer or Poorer?
Satya Marar, Tom Ballard, Tom SwitzerSeptember 23, 2021

Just as there are no atheists on a sinking ship, there are no free-marketeers in...

On Liberty EP69 What would Neville Bonner make of identity politics today?
Sean Jacobs, Tom SwitzerSeptember 22, 2021On Liberty

September 2021 marks 50 years since the first Indigenous Australian delivered a maiden address to...

The new anti-China alliance: Indo-Pacific Relations
Peter Varghese, Elbridge Colby, Tom SwitzerSeptember 16, 2021

The US alliance remains the centrepiece of Australian foreign policy. But with the end of...

On Liberty EP68 The EU and its flaws
Salvatore Babones, Richard AlstonSeptember 15, 2021On Liberty

We talked to Richard Alston former Liberal Senator for Victoria and senior cabinet minister in...

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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