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Make Poverty History: Tackle Corruption
Wolfgang KasperJanuary 19, 2006IA67

The results of the latest international survey of corruption reveal huge international differences. Poor countries...

Twenty Million Future Funds
Peter SaundersDecember 21, 2005IA66

This report is the third in a series of three titled ‘Restoring Self-Reliance in Welfare’...

Education and Learning in an Aboriginal Community
Veronica ClearyDecember 6, 2005IA65

Educational reforms are urgently needed if children in remote Aboriginal communities are to enjoy the...

Reform 30/30: Rebuilding Australia’s Tax and Welfare Systems
John HumphreysNovember 25, 2005PM70

While the announcement of tax simplification by the Government is a step in the right...

Welfare Reform and Economic Development for Indigenous Communities
Noel PearsonOctober 25, 2005OP100

Noel Pearson’s lecture is to set out a case for a comprehensive reform agenda in...

Between Two Worlds. Australian Foreign Policy Responses to New and Old Security Dilemmas
David Martin JonesOctober 23, 2005OP97

Australian foreign policy is entering an era of complexity and strategic uncertainty. Globalisation has spawned...

Labor’s education report card is one step forward, two steps back
Trisha JhaMarch 25, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
Efforts to put strict conditions on additional school funding to the states to improve outcomes...
Here’s why forcing workers back to the office won’t have the desired effect
Simon CowanMarch 22, 2025CANBERRA TIMES

Working from home is sneakily becoming one of the biggest emerging fault-lines in our society....

Campuses shouldn’t be safe spaces to breed intolerance
Steven SchwartzMarch 22, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN
A curious trend has taken hold: the re-segregation of student housing, common areas, and even...
Indexation would end the stealth tax of bracket creep 
Gene TunnyMarch 17, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
In Australia, bracket creep has become a silent but significant burden on taxpayers, eroding real...
Why have we fallen for the ‘cheap renewables’ magic tricks?
March 17, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN

The jury is in on the government’s power price promise. Instead of a $275 reduction...

Time to do away with this insidious tax hurting us all
Simon CowanMarch 8, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
Bracket creep is caused by the inflation and its interaction with our progressive tax system....
The state of Australia’s political landscape
Tony AbbottAugust 27, 2018

Tumultuous events in Canberra during the course of 2018, led to a change of Prime...

Have We All Gone Mad? The Snowflake Epidemic
Tiffany Jenkins, Steven Schwartz, Lindsay Shepherd, Claire LehmannAugust 17, 2018

University campuses throughout the West are in the grip of a troubling social phenomenon, now...

A conversation about God
Greg Sheridan, Peter KurtiAugust 2, 2018

Conversation with The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan and CIS senior research fellow Peter Kurti...

What Is Marx’s ‘Conflict Theory’ Doing to Our Politics?
Claire Lehmann, Jeremy SammutJuly 26, 2018

‘Lehmann has garnered a global audience, is centre stage in the culture war and has...

A Conversation on Culture
John Howard OM ACJuly 11, 2018

Conversation with former Prime Minister John Howard and CIS executive director Tom Switzer on the...

Sleepwalking into the future?
June 28, 2018

Michael Stutchbury, editor-in-chief of the Australian Financial Review, launched at the CIS Peter Hendy’s Why...

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