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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...

The Fiji meeting would be a farce if it were funny

Helen HughesMarch 30, 2011The Canberra Times

The Prime Minister (unelected) of Fiji, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has succeeded in attracting the leaders...

Haunted by China’s ghost cities

John LeeMarch 29, 2011Business Spectator

When Glenn Stevens admitted last month that the Reserve Bank had consistently underestimated the China-fuelled...

Getting the nanny state out of alcohol retail

Oliver Marc HartwichMarch 28, 2011Online Opinion

Coming from a country where even petrol stations are allowed to sell alcoholic drinks as...

Should we have an absolute freedom of speech?

Oliver Marc HartwichMarch 26, 2011The Sydney Morning Herald

When everyone agrees with a proposition, you have to fear that it is meaningless. Freedom...

Straddling black fella and white fella laws

Sara HudsonMarch 25, 2011

Bess Nungarrayi Price, an activist against violence and chairwoman of the Northern Territory’s Indigenous Affairs...

WikiSchool

Jennifer Buckingham OAMMarch 25, 2011

Few people could have failed to notice the launch of the new, improved version of...

Climate Change and Nuclear Power | Aidan Morrison

Robert Forsyth, Aidan MorrisonJune 21, 2024

Aidan Morrison joined Rob Forsyth on this week’s episode of Liberalism in Question. He argues...

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Tom SwitzerJune 12, 2024

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Does the media silence criticism of NATO expansion and energy policy? | Konstantin Kisin

Tom Switzer, Konstantin KisinJune 12, 2024

Would Russia Dominate without Nato? Is Tucker Carlson a useful idiot? What will happen to...

The forming of the Liberal Party Political Machine | Greg Craven, Zach Gorman, Georgina Downer

Tom Switzer, Greg Craven, Zachary Gorman, Ms Georgina DownerJune 5, 2024

Georgina Downer, Greg Craven, Zachary Gorman and Tom Switzer gathered at the CIS offices to...

Australia quietly snuck in a shadow carbon price.

Zoe Hilton, Randall EvansMay 30, 2024

Earlier this year, the Australian energy ministers quietly introduced a shadow carbon price. We’ve done...

How to fix bad behaviour in schools | Tom Bennett

Glenn Fahey, Professor Tom BennettMay 28, 2024

Australian classrooms are some of the worst behaved in the world. The girls are stressed...