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HELPless: How the FEE-HELP Loans System Lets Students Down and How to Fix it

Andrew NortonFebruary 27, 2006IA68

Australia pioneered repaying student loans through the tax system, the HECS scheme. In 2005, HECS...

Make Poverty History: Tackle Corruption

Wolfgang KasperJanuary 19, 2006IA67

The results of the latest international survey of corruption reveal huge international differences. Poor countries...

Twenty Million Future Funds

Peter SaundersDecember 21, 2005IA66

This report is the third in a series of three titled ‘Restoring Self-Reliance in Welfare’...

Education and Learning in an Aboriginal Community

Veronica ClearyDecember 6, 2005IA65

Educational reforms are urgently needed if children in remote Aboriginal communities are to enjoy the...

Fairness in a Liberal Society

Richard EpsteinNovember 28, 2005OP99

In this lecture, Richard Epstein unravels different conceptions of fairness, a term which is elusive...

Reform 30/30: Rebuilding Australia’s Tax and Welfare Systems

John HumphreysNovember 25, 2005PM70

While the announcement of tax simplification by the Government is a step in the right...

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...

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...

Covid-era policies cost young people $116bn

Gigi FosterJune 18, 2023AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Our policymakers have yet to apologise for or even recognise the scale of the damage...

Aged care cost blowout won’t be solved by higher taxes

Simon CowanJune 17, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

This week Labor’s Aged Care Minister floated the idea of an ‘aged care levy’ to...

Wages can be a great threat to taming inflation

Simon CowanJune 3, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

Reports this week that inflation has again increased to 6.8% for the year to April...

Why Jim Chalmers cannot shy away from stage three tax cuts

Simon CowanMay 20, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

As foreshadowed by some commentators prior to the budget, the Treasurer doubled down on his...

On Liberty EP2 Managing the aftermath of coronavirus

Salvatore Babones, Alexander DownerApril 9, 2020On Liberty

Salvatore Babones spoke with Alexander Downer, Australia’s longest-serving foreign minister and chairman of The UK...

On Liberty EP1 The morality of Australia’s response to Covid-19

Salvatore Babones, Peter KurtiApril 2, 2020On Liberty

Salvatore Babones spoke with Peter Kurti, who directs the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program...

Update from Executive Director Tom Switzer

Tom SwitzerMarch 25, 2020

The COVID-19 coronavirus is having a significant impact on the lives of all Australians. During...

The End of Pax Americana?

Doug Bandow, Tom SwitzerFebruary 26, 2020

For the past seventy or so years, the United States of America has been the...

Don’t waste trillions on BAD Climate Policy

Bjorn LomborgFebruary 24, 2020

Global warming is a problem that we should tackle… smartly. But climate change will not...

The Next Pandemic; China’s Coronavirus

Doug Bandow, Private: Sue Windybank – Do not Use – Duplicate, Natasha Kassam, Salvatore Babones, Vicky XuFebruary 24, 2020

But what happens if the virus can’t be suppressed? How significant will the economic loss...

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...

“I’m the the expert in me” —the value of individual freedom

Robert Forsyth, Emilie DyeOctober 13, 2022Liberalism in Question

“I’m the the expert in me” —the value of individual freedom. In this discussion we...

The power of choice that makes society better—even if it not appreciated

Tom Switzer, Robert ForsythOctober 6, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob sits down the Centre for Independent Studies executive director Tom Switzer. Tom discusses with...

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