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Job-ready Graduates 2.0: The Universities Accord and centralised control of universities and courses
Andrew NortonNovember 16, 2023AP58

Summary Australia’s graduate labour market does not always seem to function well. Graduates with degrees...

bracket creep
Bracket creep hits young Australians hardest
Matthew Taylor, Emilie DyeNovember 9, 2023IA148
For those on lower incomes, even a small increase in nominal income leads to a...
The Need For Speed: why fluency counts for maths learning
Toni Hatten-RobertsOctober 19, 2023AP57

1. Introduction Australia has a problem in maths achievement which is shown in stark relief...

Conduct Becoming. The importance of the Behaviour Curriculum
Tom BennettOctober 5, 2023AP56

Introduction Behaviour in many schools in the UK is often far below what it could...

Teaching Behaviour: How Classroom Conduct Can Unlock Better Learning
Tim McDonaldSeptember 28, 2023AP55

Introduction In Australia, and in education settings across the world, student behaviour and levels of...

Debunking Degrowth
Gene TunnySeptember 7, 2023AP54
In a country with a growing population, such as Australia, a policy of degrowth would...
Time to take the politicking out of pricing
August 23, 2004The Australian Financial Review

The ALP’s fiery attacks on Dr Nelson’s higher education reforms hide how similar their policies...

Sick phosphate island in need of a remedy
Helen HughesAugust 20, 2004The Courier Mail

Nauru is a 21 sq kms island near the equator, more than 3,000 kms from...

A workable way out of the welfare trap
Lawrence MeadAugust 18, 2004The Australian

IN the past decade, the US reduced its welfare rolls by more than 60 per...

Campuses at your service
August 11, 2004The Australian

As a final provocation to the leftist National Union of Students before the federal election,...

Lessons to learn from welfare reform in US
Peter SaundersAugust 4, 2004The Newcastle Herald

THE proportion of the working-age population reliant on welfare payments has ballooned from 3 per...

High time to start on the welfare cure
Peter SaundersAugust 3, 2004The Australian Financial Review

Fewer than one in 30 working-age adults depended on income support as their main or...

Australia’s Asian Century Opportunities – Benjamin Herscovitch
May 6, 2013
Interview with The Hon Kevin Andrews MP
May 2, 2013
Interview with The Hon. Jim Spigelman AC
May 2, 2013
Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It – Jeremy Sammut
April 29, 2013
Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It – Jeremy Sammut
April 29, 2013
Federalism – Robert Carling on ABC The Drum
April 24, 2013
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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