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After the Riot: the Meaning for Multicultural Australia
Benjamin Herscovitch, Jeremy Sammut, Peter KurtiOctober 11, 2012IA135

Innocence of Muslims Among thinking Australians, these concerns are not a manifestation of inherent prejudice;...

Australia’s Future Fiscal Shock
Robert CarlingSeptember 28, 2012IA134

Australia’s Future Fiscal Shock. Robert Carling is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent...

Australia’s future fiscal shock
Robert CarlingSeptember 28, 2012

While Treasurer Wayne Swan goes back to the drawing board to conjure up a wafer-thin...

Australia’s Asia Literacy Non-Problem
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 5, 2012IA133

New large-scale Asia literacy programs are not necessary for Australia to prosper in the Asian...

What’s New with Anti-Semitism?
Paul Kelly, Peter Kurti, Philip MendesAugust 13, 2012PF24

In 2011, criticism of Israeli government domestic policy intensified in Australia with the emergence of...

How the NSW Coalition Should Govern Health: Strategies for Microeconomic Reform
David Gadiel, Jeremy SammutJuly 11, 2012PM128

In an ever-tightening fiscal environment, the focus of NSW health policy must be the microeconomic...

Time to reconsider our US ties
Owen HarriesSeptember 10, 2001The Australian Financial Review

You win one, you lose one. Immediately after coming out of the Tampa affair well...

Modern perils in a lucky country
Jennifer Buckingham OAMAugust 31, 2001The Daily Telegraph

What is the state of our nation? For the most part, Australians are better off...

Equity and the costs of learning
Jennifer Buckingham OAMAugust 31, 2001The Daily Telegraph

Once again the knives have come out over school funding. But what is the real...

Sorry, we’re not a soft target
Helen HughesAugust 29, 2001The Australian

Church and other refugee support groups are absolutely right.  The plight of the boat people...

Tax system that’s stifling the family
Michael DuffyAugust 25, 2001The Daily Telegraph

Everyone knows the family is in trouble these days, but what is not widely recognised...

Business should go back to moral basics
Samuel GreggAugust 14, 2001The Australian Financial Review

In recent years, stakeholder theory has established itself as orthodoxy within much corporate management practice....

Australia’s Hate Speech Failure | Dimitri Burshtein
Dimitri BurshteinMarch 31, 2026

The tragic events at Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025 expose a deepening crisis in...

Behind Every Great Teacher Is a Great System | David Didau, Jenny Donovan & Trisha Jha
Trisha Jha, David Didau, Jenny DonovanMarch 20, 2026

David Didau — education consultant, teacher trainer, and author of Making Kids Cleverer and Intelligent...

Housing, handouts, and the Collapse of the Australian Dream
Parnell McGuinnessMarch 19, 2026

Over the past several decades, Australian society has undergone profound economic, social, and cultural change....

“The 50% discount is unfair” and other CGT myths | Robert Carling & Michael Stutchbury
Robert Carling, Michael StutchburyMarch 11, 2026

The criticisms and characterization of the 50% capital gains tax discount over many years have...

The Case for Optimism: More People, More Ideas, More Wealth | Marian Tupy
Marian L. Tupy, Michael StutchburyMarch 6, 2026

Marian Tupy — editor of HumanProgress.org, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and co-author of...

Old buildings and the housing crisis with Peter Tulip
Peter TulipMarch 4, 2026

Peter Tulip explains how several states have recently overhauled their planning legislation. However, the flaws...

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Jason Riley – How Trump killed liberalism
Robert Forsyth, Jason RileyNovember 5, 2023Liberalism in Question

Jason Riley – How Trump killed liberalism. In this new special episode of ‘Liberalism in...

Do groups have rights? | Dr. Joel Harrison | Liberalism in Question S4E5
Robert ForsythOctober 31, 2023Liberalism in Question

What is “Post Liberalism”? Do you have to be a Christian to understand it? Can...

Six ways to Debunk Degrowth with Gene Tunny
Gene Tunny, Karla PincottOctober 30, 2023Liberalism in Question

Increasingly there are calls for degrowth, not just to abandon the pursuit of economic growth,...

Australian laws FAIL to protect freedom
Robert ForsythOctober 30, 2023Liberalism in Question

Patrick Parkinson is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney and an internationally...

Are We Failing Our Kids?
October 27, 2023Liberalism in Question

Mr. Nicholas Sampson, the eighth headmaster of Cranbrook School, has been dedicated to preserving the...

Young voters are deserting the right with Matthew Taylor
Matthew TaylorOctober 17, 2023Liberalism in Question

There is growing evidence across the Anglosphere that Millennials and Generation Z are not showing...

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