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Unrealised Potential: India’s ‘Soft Power’ Ambition in Asia
John LeeJune 30, 2010FPA4

This paper makes the argument that India’s enormous ‘soft power’ potential in Asia is based...

Healthy Stores, Healthy Communities: The Impact of Outback Stores on Remote Indigenous Australians
Sara HudsonJune 17, 2010IA122

Indigenous Australians, especially those living in remote communities, have some of the worst health outcomes...

Towards a Red Tape Trading Scheme: Treating Excessive Bureaucracy as Just Another Kind of Pollution
Oliver Marc HartwichMay 19, 2010IA121

For many years now, trading schemes have been used as mechanisms to reduce environmental pollution....

The fantasy of taming China’s rise 
John LeeMay 6, 2010FPA3

Executive Summary In a recent article, prominent foreign affairs author James Mann argued that ‘The...

The Fantasy of Taming China’s Rise
John LeeMay 5, 2010FPA3

‘The idea that the US can manage China is failing and America, including its allies...

Defeating Dependency: Moving Disability Support Pensioners Into Jobs
April 30, 2010IA120

People with disabilities are often among the most disadvantaged in our society. There is widespread...

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Australia’s choice in a US-China conflict
John Mearsheimer, Tom SwitzerAugust 19, 2019

As China converts its growing economic power into military power, it will seek to dominate...

Anastasia Lin: China and human rights
Anastasia Lin, Tom SwitzerAugust 16, 2019

China uses its trade power as leverage to infiltrate institutions and bully virtually every Western...

China debate: John Mearsheimer vs Hugh White
John Mearsheimer, Hugh WhiteAugust 12, 2019

For years, Australian policymakers have balanced China’s desire for an enhanced regional role with our...

The rise and fall of the liberal international order
John Mearsheimer, Tom SwitzerAugust 7, 2019

The so-called rules-based international order is under serious threat. But it is a mistake to...

Racial politics in modern America
Michael Ondaatje, Jeremy SammutAugust 1, 2019

As our 2019 Helen Hughes lecturer, Michael Ondaatje surveys the increasingly tribal political landscape of...

Corporate Virtue Signalling
Jeremy Sammut, Maurice NewmanJune 20, 2019

Dr Jeremy Sammut and Maurice Newman – former chairman of the Australian Stock Exchange and...

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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