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Constitutional Conservatism
Peter BerkowitzDecember 15, 2010OP119

In The Centre for Independent Studies’ annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom, Hoover Institution...

Empires on the Edge of Chaos: The Nasty Fiscal Arithmetic of Imperial Decline
Niall FergusonDecember 14, 2010OP118

In the 26th John Bonython lecture, Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s leading geo-economic thinkers...

Tax Reform – For Economic Growth or Bigger Government?
Robert CarlingDecember 14, 2010PF20

The report on Australia's Future Tax System (the 'Henry review') was released by the government...

No Quick Fix: Three Essays on the Future of the Australian Hospital System
Jeremy SammutOctober 21, 2010SP11

Reestablishing local hospital boards is wrongly described as a ‘quick fix’ for the problems in...

Populate and Perish? Modelling Australia’s Demographic Future
Oliver Marc HartwichOctober 7, 2010PM112

Although population growth has been one of the most hotly debated topics in recent months,...

The Rise of Religious Schools in Australia
Jennifer Buckingham OAMSeptember 16, 2010PM111

More than 1.1 million students (out of a total student population of 3.4 million) attend...

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Heritage laws have been weaponised against Indigenous progress
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOAugust 29, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

At the 2024 Garma Festival, ­Anthony Albanese stated that he saw economic development as the...

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Lifting NAPLAN results: what happens in the classroom matters most
Trisha JhaAugust 16, 2024EDUCATIONHQ

Every year, the national release of NAPLAN results triggers a barrage of commentary and soul-searching...

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The unfortunate rise of ‘stakeholder capitalism’
Simon CowanJuly 27, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

The bitterness that has infected the US presidential race has not declined since the Democratic...

Democracy is better off with policy think tanks
July 26, 2024SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE

In case you missed it media attention recently focused on a US think tank and...

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Sceptical public pulling the plug on corporate virtue-signalling
July 22, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

There was a time when creating jobs, and creating wealth, and keeping consumers happy was...

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Coalition’s half-baked supermarket policies will have you paying more
Simon CowanJuly 13, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

Last week the Coalition announced they would introduce “sector-specific divestiture powers as a last resort...

Faux Feminism: Traffic Light Equality, are we missing the point?
Judith SloanMarch 30, 2017

The contemporary western feminist movement has lost its way. Over the past century the feminist...

Faux Feminism: Traffic Light Equality, are we missing the point?
Kay S. HymowitzMarch 29, 2017

The contemporary western feminist movement has lost its way. Over the past century the feminist...

Trump Voters and Greyhound Bans: Meet the Real ‘Deplorables’ of the US and OZ
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOMarch 28, 2017

Most explanations offered for Donald Trump’s ‘inexplicable’ victory in the American Presidential election have resorted...

Trump Voters and Greyhound Bans: Meet the Real ‘Deplorables’ of the US and OZ
Kay S. HymowitzMarch 27, 2017

Most explanations offered for Donald Trump’s ‘inexplicable’ victory in the American Presidential election have resorted...

Europe, NATO and Mother Russia: Life in Post-Soviet Europe
March 22, 2017

Is Russia emerging as the new destabilising force on the international scene? It has increasingly...

Captured Courts and Tribunals: A Threat to Democracy
March 22, 2017

The independence of the Fair Work Commission has suffered multiple assaults and been grossly compromised,...

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