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Facing Up To Maths Anxiety: How It Affects Achievement And What Can Be Done About It
David C. GearyJanuary 23, 2024AP61

Executive summary The mathematical competencies of students have a long-term influence on their employability and...

Prison
What is prison good for?
Peter Kurti, Maya KuranaJanuary 18, 2024AP60

A. Introduction: If crime is the question, is prison the answer? The crime rate for...

Adam Smith and Why He Matters Today
Paul Oslington, David M. HartDecember 7, 2023OP199
Adam Smith, the Scottish philosopher and economist, is one of the most significant figures to...
closing loopholes
Closing Opportunities, Not Loopholes
Gene TunnyNovember 30, 2023AP49
The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 would have adverse effects on Australia’s...
infrastructure, building, blowout, tax
Bungles, Blowouts and Boondoggles: why Australia’s infrastructure projects cost more than they should
Grahame CampbellNovember 23, 2023OP198
A large amount of taxpayers’ money, state and federal, is expended on large scale infrastructure...
menzies watershed, Robert Menzies, liberalism, politics
Liberalism applied? Policy shifts in the transition from Chifley to Menzies
Tom SwitzerNovember 16, 2023MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Tom Switzer’s chapter in The Menzies Watershed: Liberalism, Anti-communism, Continuities 1943–1954 (Melbourne University Press) Introduction...

Cost of New Loans Trivial
August 6, 2007The Australian Financial Review

In 2005, the system of income-contingent loans that began with HECS in 1989 was extended...

With A High IQ Comes Need For Special Education
August 6, 2007The Sydney Morning Herald

When it comes to education of the intellectually gifted, Australia and the United States share...

Building up to a national impact
Robert CarlingAugust 1, 2007The Australian Financial Review

The recently completed round of budgets for 2007-08 reveals that deficits, borrowing and capital spending...

America will prevail
Lawrence MeadJuly 28, 2007The Australian Financial Review

To read the newspapers, one would believe US power was in steep decline. There are...

University trade-offs for middle classes
Phil RennieJuly 25, 2007The Otago Daily Times

It’s now accepted wisdom that you need a university degree to have a successful and...

Broader scope in NT for schools
Kirsten StorryJuly 24, 2007The Canberra Times

One of the measures Prime Minister John Howard announced last month was that the Government...

Diplomatic: A Washington Memoir Book Launch
Joe Hockey, James Morrow, Simon CowanApril 21, 2022
CIS welcomed former Treasurer and Australian Ambassador to the US Joe Hockey to launch his...
On Liberty EP86 What is Xi Jinping’s real agenda for China?
Elizabeth Larus, Salvatore BabonesApril 13, 2022On Liberty

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping will soon be appointed to a third term as...

Australia’s Universities: Can They Reform?
Salvatore Babones, Simon Haines, Glenn FaheyApril 11, 2022
Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation CEO Professor Simon Haines launches author and CIS adjunct scholar...
On Liberty EP85 Hate speech and the definition of ‘gender’
James Allan, Salvatore BabonesApril 6, 2022On Liberty

On Liberty talks to Prof James Allan of the University of Queensland. In his latest...

Raging against the Past: Why apologise for history?
Lord Sumption, Peter KurtiApril 5, 2022

CIS research fellow Peter Kurti speaks to distinguished British judge and historian, Lord Sumption about...

On Liberty EP84 2022 Federal Budget Recap
Mikayla Novak, Simon CowanMarch 30, 2022On Liberty

As this year’s election looms, the 2022 federal budget maybe the last chance the federal...

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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