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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...

Empires on the Edge of Chaos: The Nasty Fiscal Arithmetic of Imperial Decline
Niall FergusonDecember 14, 2010OP118

In the 26th John Bonython lecture, Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s leading geo-economic thinkers...

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...

Mead: Dutiful but defeated
Peter SaundersNovember 23, 2012

Whenever anyone suggests tightening up welfare eligibility rules, the welfare lobby invariably attacks the idea...

In Soviet Australia defence is welfare
Simon CowanNovember 23, 2012

Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff is famous for starting the ‘in Soviet Russia’ meme, where he...

An NDIS tax?
Andrew BakerNovember 23, 2012

Those who call for raising taxes to fund their pet projects and programs implicitly assume...

Research to Practice: Child Protection and Adoption
Jeremy SammutNovember 23, 2012

The NSW government’s announcement that greater use will be made of adoption to provide safe...

How the rich lead poor lives
Charles MurrayNovember 20, 2012Australian Financial Review

Over the course of the last 50 years, the United States has seen a divergence...

NDIS: The New Leviathan
Andrew BakerNovember 16, 2012

In August, The Centre for Independent Studies broke the story that the National Disability Insurance...

Antisemitism Is Not a Jewish Problem, It’s an Australian Problem | Frydenberg, Finlay & Sackville
Peter Kurti, Michael Stutchbury, Josh Frydenberg, Lorraine Finlay, Ronald Sackville AO KCApril 10, 2026

Michael Stutchbury, Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Studies, opens this panel discussion with...

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...

Nuclear for Australia with William Shackel
Robert ForsythJanuary 23, 2024Liberalism in Question

On this episode Rob chats with 17-year-old founder of Australia’s first youth-lead campaign for nuclear...

John Mearsheimer on the Battle Between Liberalism vs Nationalism
Robert Forsyth, John MearsheimerJanuary 16, 2024Liberalism in Question

In this episode, Rob chats with John Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor...

Alleged politicisation of the public sector.
Karla Pincott, Scott PrasserDecember 15, 2023

In this special episode, Dr Scott Prasser and Prof John McMillan debate over the politicisation...

How wasteful spending pushes up major infrastructure costs
Grahame Campbell, Karla PincottDecember 5, 2023

A large amount of taxpayers’ money, state and federal, is expended on large scale infrastructure...

Howardism, ideals and power
Robert Forsyth, Andrew BlythDecember 5, 2023Liberalism in Question

Howardism, ideals and power. Andrew Blyth was manager of the John Howard Prime Ministerial Library...

The Stealth Tax
Matthew Taylor, Karla PincottNovember 28, 2023Liberalism in Question

Bracket creep chips away at living standards, especially those of younger generations, a new Issue...

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