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Back to the Bad Old Days? Industrial Relations Reform in Australia
Alexander PhilipatosDecember 6, 2012PM133

Since the Labor Government replaced WorkChoices with the Fair Work Act, many business leaders have...

Compulsory Super at 20: Libertarian Paternalism’ Without the Libertarianism
Stephen KirchnerDecember 4, 2012PM132

Australia’s approach to retirement incomes policy has three pillars: means-tested age pension, compulsory superannuation, and...

Book Launch: ‘The Modest Member: The Life and Times of Bert Kelly’
Malcolm TurnbullDecember 4, 2012

Hal Colebatch’s ‘The Modest Member: The Life & Times of Bert Kelly’ Centre for Independent...

The New Leviathan: A National Disability Insurance Scheme
Andrew BakerNovember 15, 2012PM131

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has been touted as the biggest and most expensive...

Future Submarine Project Should Raise Periscope for Another Look
Simon CowanOctober 24, 2012PM130

The Future Submarine Project – replacement of Australia’s 6 ailing Collins Class submarines with 12...

Leadership, Liberty and the Crisis of Authority
Frank FurediOctober 15, 2012OP125

Western societies have become obsessed with rule making. Instead of cultivating authoritative leadership, we rely...

The mental health system may be making us sicker
Steven SchwartzApril 6, 2026CANBERRA TIMES

Australia has a mental health crisis, but not the one we think. Despite decades of...

Housing negative gearing tax
Reducing the discount would likely not have any lasting impact in lowering house prices
Robert Carling, Michael StutchburyMarch 21, 2026CANBERRA TIMES

Anyone watching the smoke signals from Canberra knows that moves are afoot to try and...

Alarm bells ringing on more interest rate pain
Michael StutchburyMarch 18, 2026DAILY TELEGRAPH
Australians were losing faith that the combination of Labor’s economic policies and the RBA monetary...
Labor’s capital gains tax myths need busting
Robert CarlingMarch 11, 2026DAILY TELEGRAPH

Labor has long held an axe over the capital gains tax 50% discount and negative...

Measuring affordability in time, not dollars paints a different inflation picture
Marian L. TupyMarch 9, 2026CANBERRA TIMES

Even before new Middle East conflict sparked concern about petrol prices, Australia’s latest CPI release...

Blame diagnostic inflation for the NDIS’ $10b Autism bill
Steven SchwartzMarch 5, 2026AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

As recently reported in The Australian Financial Review, autism costs the National Disability Insurance Scheme...

How to tackle Australia’s housing crisis one state at a time | NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey
Simon CowanAugust 29, 2024

Sydney is home to some of the least affordable housing in the world, placing immense...

Has Easy Money Destroyed the Free Market? | Ruchir Sharma
Tom Switzer, Randall EvansAugust 26, 2024

Watch as Tom Switzer sits down with renowned financial analyst, commentator, and investor Ruchir Sharma...

Let’s begin closing the gap today | Warren Mundine
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO, Randall EvansAugust 14, 2024

Enough Talk! 4 ways we can ACTUALLY help Indigenous Australians It is time to start...

Gala Dinner: Global depopulation 
Tom SwitzerAugust 8, 2024

Annual Gala Dinner What could plunging birth rates mean for Australia? If this is a...

Professor Stiglitz is wrong about Australia
Tom Switzer, Randall EvansAugust 8, 2024

Joseph Stiglitz — Nobel laureate, Columbia University professor, former World Bank chief economist – is...

Bret Stephens vs John Mearsheimer | Gaza and the Middle East
Bret Stephens, John Mearsheimer, Randall EvansAugust 6, 2024

In this video, we compare and contrast the positions of Bret Stephens and John Mearsheimer....

How loss of cheap energy pressures wage system | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyNovember 27, 2025

You can listen to The Stutchbury Sessions on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM or listen...

Dark Forces at Work? Sir Frank Lowy on the Return of Antisemitism | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyOctober 10, 2025Liberalism in Question

You can listen to The Stutchbury Sessions on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM or listen...

Iron, Ideas, and Abundance: Supply Side Mistakes and Lessons | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 26, 2025

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Why Australians Vote for Big Government | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 19, 2025

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Our Prosperity is Slipping Away | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 16, 2025

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Protests, Polarisation and Immigration | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 15, 2025

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