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Chinese Whispers: China’s media influence and pushback in Australia and Asia
Ming-Chang TsaiDecember 20, 2022AP41

China’s global media influence has encountered increasing pushback from numerous countries. This report looks at...

The High Court, Democracy and Same Sex Marriage
July 19, 2016OP147

The High Court in 2013 overturned the understanding of marriage in the Marriage Act 1961...

The Democratic Deficit: How Minority Fundamentalism Threatens Liberty in Australia
July 12, 2016Research Report 16

We are faced with a new kind of fundamentalism – call it ‘minority fundamentalism.’ It...

Society is Broken
June 20, 2016OP146

With experience as a prison doctor and psychiatrist, Theodore Dalrymple decries the impact of the...

The Role of Think Tanks: A Reply to the Critics
June 13, 2016OP145

Because their aims are educational and democratic, what think tanks do and why they do...

The case against tax increases in Australia: The growing burden
June 7, 2016Research Report 15

View Interactive Snapshot The tax burden imposed by the Commonwealth Government alone, and by all...

Big three states splurge on infrastructure
June 21, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

With the NSW Treasurer handing down the state’s 2019-20 budget this week, the big three...

Ads highlight CSR concerns
June 21, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The concerns my new book outlines about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) leading to the politicisation...

Kudos to NSW for phonics check trial
June 21, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The NSW budget included some very welcome education news: a trial of the Year 1...

Whither structural economic reform?
June 14, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Australia’s vaunted economic miracle is looking a bit ragged after another sluggish quarter. There is...

Interest rate myths
June 14, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

With last week’s cut, Australia’s cash rate has fallen to its lowest level in decades,...

Cherry-picking freedom
June 14, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The AFP raids on the ABC and a News Corp journalist are alarming, but the...

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