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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...

Overcoming poverty of ambition
July 16, 2010

Sometimes studying social policy can be thoroughly depressing. There’s child abuse. There’s domestic violence. There...

China’s underappreciated boost to global resource supply
Stephen KirchnerJuly 16, 2010

China’s contribution to global resource demand is well known, but its important contribution to augmenting...

A world away – Halls Creek, a remote town in WA
Sara HudsonJuly 16, 2010

It’s only an eight-hour drive from Broome, but the town of Halls Creek is a...

The mining tax debate highlights the terms of trade boom
Stephen KirchnerJuly 15, 2010The Australian (Business)

The debate on the resource super–profits tax raises the more question of how Australia should...

Australia’s choice between growth and decline
Oliver Marc HartwichJuly 15, 2010Business Spectator

One of the first policy shifts announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard was a move...

A way India can outshine China
John LeeJuly 14, 2010Business Spectator

In 2007, Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew angered Beijing by writing that unlike China’s...

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...

Liberalism and the ‘Broad Church.’
Robert Forsyth, John Howard OM ACDecember 1, 2020Liberalism in Question

In a wide ranging conversation, Rob chats to former prime minister John Howard AC about...

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