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Our Prosperity is Slipping Away: Submission to Economic Reform Roundtable

August 18, 2025AP87

Introduction As Reserve Bank deputy governor Andrew Hauser noted last year, it can be...

Addressing Australia’s Productivity Problem. CORE Blueprint to Unshackle Productivity

Jim CoxAugust 14, 2025AP86

Introduction There is no one action that will lift Australia’s dwindling productivity growth; it is...

Events, Dear Boy. Any Government Can Be Derailed

Tom SwitzerAugust 11, 2025OP207

Foreword After an election result as sobering as May 3, 2025, there is a temptation...

The Productivity Problem. Australia’s Growth Slump Is Undermining Prosperity

Jim CoxAugust 7, 2025AP85

Executive summary Concern over Australia’s slow rate of productivity growth is justified as it is...

Leviathan on the Rampage: Government spending growth a threat to Australia’s economic future

Robert CarlingJuly 23, 2025AP84

Executive summary The rising trend of government expenditure in Australia has long been present but...

Sex and maths success: myths and interventions

David C. GearyJuly 17, 2025AP83

Executive summary Mathematical competencies at the completion of secondary school influence later educational and occupational...

Innovators have the right to fail

Cassandra WilkinsonJuly 12, 2014The Australian

I was chatting to an 11-year-old acquaintance last week who told me his inner-Sydney school...

HECS-style loan scheme for Paid Parental Leave provides fairness for women and taxpayers

Matthew TaylorJuly 12, 2014Open Forum

The Australian government spends around $1.4 billion on statutory Paid Parental Leave (PPL) every year,...

Does fair paid parental leave mean taxpayers cop the bill?

Matthew TaylorJuly 11, 2014

The reaction to the CIS’ Fairer Paid Parental Leave this week, a report that proposes...

Improving housing affordability begins at home

Stephen KirchnerJuly 11, 2014

Australia’s capital house prices rose 10% last financial year, with an even stronger rise of...

Youth woes are structural

Alexander PhilipatosJuly 11, 2014

Much has been made of lacklustre employment levels for our youth. Last month, for example,...

You get senators on side by getting voters on side

Simon CowanJuly 11, 2014ABC The Drum

It would be premature to say that the Abbott Government's budget lies in ruins; this...

Antisemitism Is Not a Jewish Problem, It’s an Australian Problem | Frydenberg, Finlay & Sackville

Peter Kurti, Michael Stutchbury, Josh Frydenberg, Lorraine Finlay, Ronald Sackville AO KCApril 10, 2026

Michael Stutchbury, Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Studies, opens this panel discussion with...

Australia’s Hate Speech Failure | Dimitri Burshtein

Dimitri BurshteinMarch 31, 2026

The tragic events at Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025 expose a deepening crisis in...

Behind Every Great Teacher Is a Great System | David Didau, Jenny Donovan & Trisha Jha

Trisha Jha, David Didau, Jenny DonovanMarch 20, 2026

David Didau — education consultant, teacher trainer, and author of Making Kids Cleverer and Intelligent...

Housing, handouts, and the Collapse of the Australian Dream

Parnell McGuinnessMarch 19, 2026

Over the past several decades, Australian society has undergone profound economic, social, and cultural change....

“The 50% discount is unfair” and other CGT myths | Robert Carling & Michael Stutchbury

Robert Carling, Michael StutchburyMarch 11, 2026

The criticisms and characterization of the 50% capital gains tax discount over many years have...

The Case for Optimism: More People, More Ideas, More Wealth | Marian Tupy

Marian L. Tupy, Michael StutchburyMarch 6, 2026

Marian Tupy — editor of HumanProgress.org, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and co-author of...