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Diminishing Democracy: The Threat Posed by Political Expenditure Laws
Andrew NortonJuly 31, 2009IA114

Electoral law reforms nearing a Senate vote risk making political activists inadvertent lawbreakers, deterring financial...

New Inquiry — Remote Community Stores in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Communities 2009
Sara HudsonJuly 29, 2009

Communities in the Northern Territory and in other native title areas need to have private...

Fiscal Rules for Limited Government: Reforming Australia’s Fiscal Responsibility Legislation
Robert CarlingJuly 28, 2009PM98

Australia needs new fiscal responsibility legislation to ensure that fiscal policy is subject to the...

Emissions Tax: The Least Worst Option
Luke MalpassJuly 16, 2009IA113

Following warnings from mainstream scientists, politicians around the world have rushed to implement a range...

Fatally Flawed:The Child Protection Crisis in Australia
Jeremy SammutJuly 8, 2009The Centre for Independent Studies

The real cause of the child protection crisis is the large number of ‘hard core’...

In Defence of Non-Government Schools
Jennifer Buckingham OAMJuly 2, 2009IA112

The Rudd Labor government has so far taken a hands-off approach to the issue of...

The flawed giant of Europe
Oliver Marc HartwichMarch 25, 2010Business Spectator

Worries about Australia’s productivity slump have long gripped politicians and commentators. The productivity surge of...

Question time on whether NZ needs to reinstate an upper house
Luke MalpassMarch 24, 2010The Dominion Post

In the 2011 election, New Zealanders will also vote on the future of MMP. Two...

Inflated expectations of a rising yuan
John LeeMarch 24, 2010The Australian Financial Review

In a rare demonstration of bipartisanship 90 Democrat and 40 Republican members of the US...

Why China is stepping on toes
John LeeMarch 23, 2010Business Spectator

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s warning to Beijing that the world is carefully watching the trial...

Paying nurses to play doctor will make system sick
Jeremy SammutMarch 22, 2010The Australian

Criticising the nursing profession is like killing Bambi. Nurses who devote their lives to the...

Just say no!
March 19, 2010

should Home and Away Jessica Brown is a Policy Analyst at The Centre for Independent...

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...

The Rise of Activist Corporations: How activism agendas subsumed shareholder primacy
Peter Swan AO, Emilie DyeSeptember 26, 2024What You Need to Know About

The Rise of Activist Corporations with Peter Swan – Interviewed by Emilie Dye. Australian companies...

From Conversion to Classical Liberalism: The Influence of Ludwig von Mises | Dr. Jonathan Cole
Robert Forsyth, Jonathan ColeSeptember 26, 2024Liberalism in Question

Join Robert Forsyth in this enlightening interview with Dr. Jonathan Cole, a distinguished scholar and...

Government spending and inflation by Robert Carling
Robert CarlingSeptember 19, 2024Liberalism in Question

That government expenditure in Australia has grown apace in recent years is well-known. The growth...

All Things Considered. Making Moral Sense of the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza by Nigel Biggar
Nigel BiggarSeptember 18, 2024

All Things Considered. Making Moral Sense of the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza by Nigel...

Government Spending and Inflation
Robert Carling, Emilie DyeSeptember 17, 2024What You Need to Know About

Government spending and inflation with Robert Carling – Interviewed by Emilie Dye. That government expenditure...

The History of Liberalism in Iran | Behnam Ben Taleblu
Robert ForsythSeptember 12, 2024Liberalism in Question

In this thought-provoking interview, Robert Forsyth sits down with Behnam Ben Taleblu, a renowned Iran...

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