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Taxploitation II: Tax Reform for Incentive,Productivity and Economic Growth
John Humphreys, Robert Carling, Sinclair Davidson, Stephen KirchnerJuly 13, 2011R12

This volume brings together papers on different aspects of tax reform published by the CIS...

Democracy and Money: The Dangers of Campaign Finance Reform
Andrew NortonJune 2, 2011PM119

Campaign finance reform is presented as improving Australian democracy and government by limiting ‘undue influence’....

Alcohol Policy and the Politics of Moral Panic
Luke MalpassMay 26, 2011PM118

Liquor reform has become a political hot potato in New Zealand. Social problems caused by...

Why Does Government Grow?
Stephen KirchnerApril 13, 2011PM117

This paper examines some of the stylised facts in relation to the growth of government...

Alcohol Restrictions in Indigenous Communities and Frontier Towns
Sara HudsonApril 6, 2011PM116

The double standards applied to the enforcement of liquor legislation have contributed to the alcohol...

Droughts and Flooding Rains: Water Provision for a Growing Australia
Rebecca GillMarch 31, 2011PM115

In the 2010 federal elections, the debate over Australia’s population surfaced once again. Groups concerned...

The political winners and losers of 2023
Simon CowanDecember 30, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

The political winners and losers of 2023 Once again it is the time of year...

WESTERN CIVILISATION
Instead of facing up to moral decline, the West is lowering its standards
Tom SwitzerDecember 30, 2023THE AUSTRALIAN

At any time in history, society tolerates behaviour that earlier had been considered deviant, abnormal...

Voice to parliament
National cabinet’s zero-sum game is hurting Australia
Robert Carling, Simon CowanDecember 16, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

While the name has changed over the decades from Premiers Conference to COAG to National...

How Chalmers’ fiscal goals lost all ambition
Robert CarlingDecember 13, 2023AFR

How Chalmers’ fiscal goals lost all ambition. Jim Chalmers’ mid-year economic and fiscal update (MYEFO)...

What Australia must do to lift flatlining student scores
Glenn FaheyDecember 6, 2023AFR

While Australian students have scored a mixed report card in the latest round of international...

Regional and remote schools funding review should not be ignored
Scott PrasserDecember 6, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

Parents, teachers and students in regional and remote areas should be concerned that most of...

How to Fix Super
Andrew Bragg, James Pawluk, Simon CowanJuly 31, 2020

If there is one thing that almost everyone agrees on, it is that not everything...

Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
Dave Rubin, Monica WilkieJuly 28, 2020

The debate over cancel culture and the culture wars continues to rage. CIS welcomes back...

On Liberty EP16 Saving the marketplace of ideas
Salvatore Babones, Janet AlbrechtsenJuly 23, 2020On Liberty

On Liberty returns, for season 2, with Janet Albrechtsen. In her latest column for The...

We must defend freedom of speech
Lionel Shriver, Brendan O'Neill, Monica WilkieJuly 17, 2020

Lionel Shriver and Brendan O’Neill sit down with CIS fellow Monica Wilkie for The Woke...

On Liberty EP15 JobKeeper or RecoveryPreventer?
Salvatore Babones, Glenn FaheyJuly 9, 2020On Liberty

Salvatore Babones spoke with Glenn Fahey, Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, working across...

On Liberty EP14 Trying times, federal politics in an age of political outrage
Salvatore Babones, Scott PrasserJuly 2, 2020On Liberty

Earlier in 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was under fire for his handling of the...

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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