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Our media releases, opinion pieces, commentary, videos and audio podcasts are available in this section. Our experts are able to comment on a range of policy areas amd issues. Please contact our Communications Director, Karla Pincott via phone 0407 716 752 or email kpincott@cis.org.au

Family on the Edge: Stability and Fertility in Prosperity and Recession
Barry MaleySeptember 16, 2009PM101

Over the last 40 years or so, there have been great changes in the Australian...

KiwiRail: Doomed to Fail?
Luke MalpassSeptember 10, 2009IA115

Government ownership cannot and will not ‘fix’ rail in New Zealand.  Luke Malpass argues that...

Supersize New Zealand : A Collection of Essays on How to Improve New Zealand’s Public Policy
Luke MalpassSeptember 9, 2009PF17

This collection of essays from the Centre for Independent Studies show that increased regulation and...

Why America will lead the ‘Asian Century’
John LeeAugust 19, 2009FPA1

The beginning of the end of America’s strategic primacy in Asia is commonly predicted. We...

Supping with the Devil : Government Contracts and the Non-Profit Sector
Peter SaundersAugust 9, 2009PF16

There was a time when it was easy to look at the formal organisations in...

Why Public Hospitals Are Overcrowded: Ten Points for Policymakers
Jeremy SammutAugust 1, 2009PM99

Beside the perennial and serious problem of ever-lengthening waiting lists for elective surgery, major public...

Dying before their time
Sara HudsonSeptember 23, 2011

In an Aboriginal settlement of a hundred or so souls, people gathered under trees to...

Patently absurd
Oliver Marc HartwichSeptember 23, 2011

Because I usually like to side with the underdog (even if the underdog is Microsoft),...

Housing sense in short supply
Oliver Marc HartwichSeptember 21, 2011Business Spectator

While the rest of the world wonders what the next phase of the GFC will...

RBA pay: why Glenn Stevens is not Elizabeth Taylor
September 20, 2011Crikey

An exchange between Sir Humphrey Appleby and the Minister of Administrative Affairs in the early...

The march of democracy in Southeast Asia
September 20, 2011Online Opinion

Does economic development lead to democracy? Up until now, several East Asian states have seemed...

Will development lead to democracy in Southeast Asia?
September 16, 2011

Does economic development lead to democracy? Until now, several East Asian states have seemed determined...

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...

Nuclear for Australia with William Shackel
Robert ForsythJanuary 23, 2024Liberalism in Question

On this episode Rob chats with 17-year-old founder of Australia’s first youth-lead campaign for nuclear...

John Mearsheimer on the Battle Between Liberalism vs Nationalism
Robert Forsyth, John MearsheimerJanuary 16, 2024Liberalism in Question

In this episode, Rob chats with John Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor...

Alleged politicisation of the public sector.
Karla Pincott, Scott PrasserDecember 15, 2023

In this special episode, Dr Scott Prasser and Prof John McMillan debate over the politicisation...

How wasteful spending pushes up major infrastructure costs
Grahame Campbell, Karla PincottDecember 5, 2023

A large amount of taxpayers’ money, state and federal, is expended on large scale infrastructure...

Howardism, ideals and power
Robert Forsyth, Andrew BlythDecember 5, 2023Liberalism in Question

Howardism, ideals and power. Andrew Blyth was manager of the John Howard Prime Ministerial Library...

The Stealth Tax
Matthew Taylor, Karla PincottNovember 28, 2023Liberalism in Question

Bracket creep chips away at living standards, especially those of younger generations, a new Issue...

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