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Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ‘Homelands’ in Transition
Helen HughesJune 30, 2007SP09

Some 90,000 of Australia’s 500,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders live appallingly deprived lives in...

Taming New Zealand’s Tax Monster
Phil RennieMay 15, 2007IA87

Since 2000 the amount of tax paid by New Zealanders has increased from $32 billion...

The Government Giveth and the Government Taketh Away: Tax Welfare Churning and the Case for Welfare State Opt-Outs
Peter SaundersMay 14, 2007PM74

Australians are more prosperous than ever before, so the number of people needing government assistance...

Religion and Politics: Contemporary Tensions
Paul KellyMay 12, 2007OP105

Religion is becoming more important in Australian politics and this will pose fresh opportunities and...

History as the Story of Liberty: A Globalised Western Civilisation
Arthur HermanMay 5, 2007OP104

The most dynamic forces in the world today are all Western cultural forces. Everywhere you...

What Is Working in Good Schools in Remote Indigenous Communities?
Kirsten StorryApril 4, 2007IA86

In remote community schools, children often miss one or two days of school a week....

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On Liberty EP41 The Paradox of Prosperity
Salvatore Babones, Peter MurphyMarch 3, 2021On Liberty

Does prosperity depend on discipline, rational planning, and strict adherence to scientific principles? Or is...

On Liberty EP40 Biden shows he is no Barack Obama
Salvatore Babones, John LeeFebruary 24, 2021On Liberty

We welcomed former CIS scholar John Lee. Recently writing in The Australian, John highlighted the...

Helping People in 100 Years VS Helping People Now
Bjorn LomborgFebruary 21, 2021

The world’s governments have picked 169 well-meaning targets, promising everything to everyone. But too many...

Let’s look at the Facts of the 2020 Australian Bush Fires
Bjorn Lomborg, Tom SwitzerFebruary 20, 2021

Global warming is a problem that we should tackle… smartly. But climate change will not...

Will We All Drown If Global Warming Happens?
Bjorn Lomborg, Tom SwitzerFebruary 19, 2021

Global warming is a problem that we should tackle… smartly. But climate change will not...

Islands are Moving Not Sinking!
Bjorn Lomborg, Tom SwitzerFebruary 18, 2021

Global warming is a problem that we should tackle… smartly. But climate change will not...

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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