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Fiscal Shock and Awe in the United States

Robert CarlingOctober 21, 2009IA118

The US federal budget deficit was $US1.4 trillion (10% of GDP) in the fiscal year...

What’s Next for Welfare-to-Work?

October 15, 2009IA117

In 2006, the Howard government’s Welfare to Work reforms placed new eligibility requirements on recipients...

Fiscal Fallacies : The Failure of Activist Fiscal Policy

Stephen KirchnerOctober 14, 2009PF18

The global financial crisis that emerged in 2007 has turned into a major, worldwide economic...

The Past is the Future for Public Hospitals: An Insider’s Perspective on Hospital Administration

John R. GrahamOctober 8, 2009PM102

There is no bigger issue facing the Australian health system than what to do about...

Ending the Churn: A Tax/Welfare Swap

John HumphreysOctober 7, 2009PM100

The Australian welfare system—including health, education and handouts—costs more than $250 billion per year. Some...

Educating The Disadvantaged

Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 1, 2009IA116

Every child can succeed at school if education providers take the right approach. Educating the...

The myth of the right to die

Peter KurtiJuly 7, 2016Quadrant

The phrase ‘dying with dignity’ falls easily enough these days from the lips of many...

Detoxifying Medicare

Jeremy SammutJuly 2, 2016The Spectator

In Spectator Australia last October, I wrote that those on the centre-right might one day...

Brits will pay high price to regain control

Robert CarlingJuly 1, 2016Ideas@TheCentre

For such a momentous change, the hurdle was set remarkably low – a bare majority...

Britain has rediscovered its liberty

Peter SaundersJuly 1, 2016Ideas@TheCentre

Since the 1950s, the Eurocrat dream has been to impose a federal union onto the...

Brexit is democracy, and that matters

Simon CowanJuly 1, 2016Ideas@TheCentre

Tomorrow is election day. The cliché is that ‘voters will face a choice’ but in...

Don’t take health care reform off the election agenda

Jeremy SammutJune 28, 2016The Spectator Flat White

Monetarism: tick. De-nationalisation of industry: tick. Europe: big new tick. The results of the Brexit...

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...