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Anglo Primacy and the End of History: The Deep Roots of Power
Tom FrameAugust 1, 2008OP109

The 24th Annual John Bonython Lecture Whether the United States should lead the world is...

Declaring Dependence, Declaring Independence: Three Essays on the Future of the Welfare State
Peter SaundersAugust 1, 2008OP111

In a time when governments are running up enormous welfare bills and intrusively regulating everyday...

Child Care and the Labour Supply
Jennifer Buckingham OAMJuly 23, 2008IA97

Child care is said to be a public good because it supposedly has developmental and...

House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment and Workplace Relations Inquiry 2008
Kayoko Tsumori, Peter SaundersJuly 11, 2008
Must Religion be a Threat to Liberty?
Robert SiricoJuly 5, 2008OP112

Does Christianity destroy or defend freedom? Answering this question, Fr Robert A. Sirico turns to...

Adam Smith – A Primer
Eamonn ButlerJuly 4, 2008OP110

Despite his fame, there is still widespread ignorance about the breadth of Adam Smith’s contrinbutions...

The wasted decade: In the 90’s, America had unprecedented power, but did little with it. It must now rue its lost opportunity.
Owen HarriesDecember 18, 2001The Age

In the lead article of the current issue of the US journal Foreign Affairs, Fouad...

A generation drowns in boos: Repairing society’s attitude to rearing children would be revolutionary
Frank DevineDecember 13, 2001The Australian

Peter Saunders, Professor of sociology at the University of Sussex, said something dreadful at a...

The great drink-driving scandal: Police road blitzes are wasteful and an affront to our liberties
Peter SaundersDecember 13, 2001The Age

Over the last Labour Day weekend in NSW, 106,396 people were apprehended by the police...

Children pay the price of gender feminism war
Barry MaleyDecember 12, 2001The Sydney Morning Herald

For some radical feminists, males are patriarchal oppressors and the family is their torture chamber....

The damage done by the decline of marriage
Barry MaleyDecember 8, 2001The Age

In the past generation, Australian family life and marriage have undergone a revolution that has...

Morality and Foreign Policy
Owen HarriesDecember 7, 2001ABC Radio

Recent events have generated a great deal of discussion about morality and foreign policy. It...

Biden’s first six months; Republicans, US-China & Critical Race Theory
George F. Will, Tom SwitzerJuly 29, 2021

The 2020 presidential election race was a lot closer than the pollsters had expected. Donald...

On Liberty EP61 How a peace process went wrong
Salvatore Babones, William MaleyJuly 28, 2021On Liberty

This episode focuses on Afghanistan’s future prospects given Australia’s recent closure of its embassy in...

Where the Woke Things Are
Monica Wilkie, Lionel Shriver, Brendan O'NeillJuly 22, 2021

Although many thought the pandemic would be over by now, COVID-19 continues to rage across...

On Liberty EP60 Bitcoin Volcano
Monica Wilkie, Stephan LiveriaJuly 21, 2021On Liberty

We talked to podcast host, Bitcoin maximalist and co-founder of Ministry of Nodes, Stephan Liveria....

Is technology our educational saviour?
Glenn Fahey, Jamie Beaton, Wayne Houlden, John HattieJuly 15, 2021

A free and open marketplace for education technology has the potential to deliver innovative solutions...

On Liberty EP59 Bastille Day 2021: Franco-Australian relations
Salvatore Babones, Armelle RebuffetJuly 14, 2021On Liberty

We talked to French Consul (Commercial), Armelle Rebuffet. We’ll discuss how BusinessFrance works to strengthen...

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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