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Reconciling Modernity and Tradition in a Liberal Society
Chandran KukathasDecember 21, 2010OP121

Many modern liberals have been eager to tout the virtues of diversity, but many have...

FaHCSIA Indigenous Economic Development Strategy 2010
Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes, Sara HudsonDecember 17, 2010

Governments state that their objective is for Indigenous townships to develop and prosper like

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Ludwig von Mises-Primer
Eamonn ButlerDecember 16, 2010OP120

Ludwig von Mises was one of the greatest economists and political scientists of the twentieth...

Europe’s Painful Farewell: An Essay on the Decline of the Old World
Oliver Marc HartwichDecember 16, 2010IA123

Europe is a continent in crisis. The financial problems of many European economies became visible...

Constitutional Conservatism
Peter BerkowitzDecember 15, 2010OP119

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

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...

Let the market decide the best approach
Ross FarrellyMarch 28, 2005The Australian

The recent controversy over Wayne Sawyer’s editorial in English in Australia , the journal of...

Scrap this outdated fee
Andrew NortonMarch 23, 2005The Australian
Fix policies to make housing affordable
Peter SaundersMarch 16, 2005

The house price bubble has finally burst. While it lasted, the boom added substantially to...

New deal for communities
Helen HughesMarch 1, 2005The Courier Mail

Third World unemployment, welfare dependence, housing, ill health and violence in remote communities contrast starkly...

Coombs’ tragic legacy
Helen HughesMarch 1, 2005The Australian Financial Review

In reviewing the Community Development Employment Program the federal government has hopefully taken a first...

Welfare shake-up is long overdue
Peter SaundersFebruary 24, 2005The Australian

Forty years ago, fewer than one in 30 working-age adults relied on welfare payments as...

A Sense of Balance Book Launch
John Howard OM AC, Ticky FullertonSeptember 8, 2022
We welcomed former Prime Minister John Howard OM AC for the launch of his book...
On Liberty EP98 The Territory Gap
Salvatore Babones, Peter GregoryAugust 31, 2022On Liberty
We welcomed Peter Gregory, author of the recent CIS paper The Territory Gap: Comparing Australia's...
Indian Democracy at 75: Troubled or Triumphant?
Tony Abbott, Salvatore Babones, Aarti Sharad SeksariaAugust 18, 2022
CIS welcomed former PM Tony Abbott to discuss the state of Indian democracy 75 years...
On Liberty EP97 Teacher workforce shortages
Glenn Fahey, Mark LathamAugust 18, 2022On Liberty
Glenn Fahey asks Mark Latham, Member of the NSW Legislative Council and Chair of the...
The State of Education in NSW
Sarah Mitchell, Glenn FaheyAugust 4, 2022
NSW Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning, The Hon. Sarah Mitchell spoke to CIS...
On Liberty EP96 Is the property bubble bursting?
Eliza Owen, Salvatore BabonesAugust 3, 2022On Liberty
Salvatore Babones returns to discuss the future of housing and rental prices with Eliza Owen...
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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