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CDEP: Help or Hindrance? The Community Development Employment Program and its Impact on Indigenous Australians
Sara HudsonJuly 2, 2008PM86

Established more than thirty years ago, the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) program has expanded...

The False Promise of GP Super Clinics Part 2: Coordinated Care
Jeremy SammutJune 20, 2008PM85

The report’s author Jeremy Sammut examines the evidence for the Rudd government’s plan to use...

A Whiff of Compassion? The Attack on Mutual Obligation
Peter SaundersJune 10, 2008IA96

Mutual obligation requires people receiving welfare benefits to undertake a prescribed activity or forfeit some...

Putting Democracy in China on Hold
John LeeMay 28, 2008IA95

China’s transformation from the backward, autocratic economy of just three decades ago is probably the...

KiwiSaver or KiwiSucker? A Critical View
Phil RennieMay 7, 2008IA94

The promised benefits of KiwiSaver do not match the high cost of the taxpayer subsidies....

The False Promise of GP Super Clinics: Part 1: Preventive Care
Jeremy SammutMay 6, 2008PM84

Dr Jeremy Sammut examines the evidence for preventive care programs to help make the Medicare...

Harvard University affirmative action reveals flaw in zero-sum equality push
Simon CowanJuly 15, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

In a heavily anticipated decision, the United States Supreme Court recently ruled that two major...

Education overhaul for teachers a long time coming
Glenn FaheyJuly 11, 2023THE AUSTRALIAN

The proposed overhaul to teacher training will mean better prepared teachers and a greater expectation...

Facts of life are conservative, but younger voters are lurching left
Tom SwitzerJuly 6, 2023AFR

Margaret Thatcher said the facts of life are Conservative. Even Labor icons Bob Hawke and...

The Coalition can create generational voting change by tackling housing affordability
Simon CowanJuly 3, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

Australia’s centre-right political movement is in trouble. This may have seemed obvious from the fact...

Meritocracy
A great court victory for meritocracy
Steven SchwartzJune 30, 2023AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

The United States Supreme Court’s meritocracy verdict in favour of Students for Fair Admissions has...

Coalition can’t bypass Gen Z, millennial challenge
Matthew TaylorJune 29, 2023THE AUSTRALIAN

Despite having been in office for 20 of the last 27 years, predictions of the...

On Liberty EP73 Governing in the Internet Age
Salvatore Babones, Paul FletcherNovember 3, 2021On Liberty

We talked to Paul Fletcher MP, Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts....

Reforming Australia’s Schools
Glenn Fahey, Alan TudgeOctober 28, 2021

Australia’s education system needs policy reform, beyond just throwing in yet more funding. As students...

The New Cold War
John Mearsheimer, Tom SwitzerOctober 19, 2021

In his new essay for the New York-based Foreign Affairs magazine, Mearsheimer argues that the...

Overcoming the Educational Odds
Glenn Fahey, Katharine BirbalsinghOctober 14, 2021

High-performing schools make a difference every day in the lives of our younger generation, particularly...

On Liberty EP72 How democratic was Athenian Democracy?
Salvatore Babones, James KiersteadOctober 13, 2021On Liberty

We talked to classicist Dr James Kierstead about the pasts and futures of ancient Athenian...

The Psychology of Populism
Peter Kurti, Joseph P. ForgasOctober 7, 2021

Populism has been resurgent in many liberal democracies. It succeeds by exploiting fundamental characteristics of...

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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