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School Funding, Choice and Equity
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 26, 2011IA126

School funding is plagued by inconsistencies and divisiveness. Its complexity has led to widespread misinformation...

Working Towards Self-Reliance: Three Lessons for Disability Pension Reform
October 5, 2011PM124

To successful reduce the number of pensioners on disability support, policymakers must apply the lessons...

Why a Growing Australia is Nothing to Fear
Oliver Marc HartwichSeptember 28, 2011IA125

Australia’s population is growing because our economy is booming and our society is confident about...

The Kingdom of God is Forcefully Advancing and Forceful Men Lay Hold of It
David ColtartSeptember 14, 2011OP123

In the CIS’s annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom, Senator David Coltart discusses the...

When Prophecy Fails
Peter SaundersSeptember 9, 2011SP12

In their 2009 book, The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett argued for the...

Selection, Migration and Integration: Why Multiculturalism Works in Australia (And Fails in Europe)
Oliver Marc HartwichSeptember 1, 2011PM121

Australia is one of the most multicultural countries in the world. Almost a quarter of...

Education policy must mature beyond calls for more money
Glenn FaheyFebruary 3, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

Education policy must mature from being dominated by demands for more funding and instead focus...

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Albanese slams door on Labor’s own tax aspirations
Robert CarlingFebruary 1, 2024AFR

Albanese slams door on Labor’s own tax aspirations. Australia’s personal income tax structure has been...

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Future Fund critics owe Costello an apology
Tom SwitzerJanuary 30, 2024AFR

Future Fund critics owe Costello an apology. Opinion writers and policy wonks make regular criticisms...

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Labor has gone a long way towards shredding its credibility
Simon Cowan, Robert CarlingJanuary 30, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

Labor has gone a long way towards shredding its credibility. It was said of a...

Let’s make Australia Day a day for dialogue, not division
Steven SchwartzJanuary 24, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

Forty years ago, I pledged to share Australia’s democratic beliefs and respect the rights and...

Change the date but celebrate the day
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOJanuary 24, 2024AFR

Last year Australians gave a very clear message, resoundingly rejecting the Albanese Voice and ignoring...

On Liberty EP42 How an unprecedented presidency changed everything.
Salvatore Babones, Zoe DanielMarch 10, 2021On Liberty

Donald Trump turned America on its head and shocked the world, taking an isolationist approach...

25 years since John Howard’s landslide election victory
John Howard OM AC, Tom SwitzerMarch 9, 2021

4, March 2021 marked the 25th anniversary of the Howard Coalition government’s election. In honour...

On Liberty EP41 The Paradox of Prosperity
Salvatore Babones, Peter MurphyMarch 3, 2021On Liberty

Does prosperity depend on discipline, rational planning, and strict adherence to scientific principles? Or is...

On Liberty EP40 Biden shows he is no Barack Obama
Salvatore Babones, John LeeFebruary 24, 2021On Liberty

We welcomed former CIS scholar John Lee. Recently writing in The Australian, John highlighted the...

Helping People in 100 Years VS Helping People Now
Bjorn LomborgFebruary 21, 2021

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

Let’s look at the Facts of the 2020 Australian Bush Fires
Bjorn Lomborg, Tom SwitzerFebruary 20, 2021

Global warming is a problem that we should tackle… smartly. But climate change will not...

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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