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A Headlong Dash into the Chasm of Hyperbole
Peter SaundersJune 8, 2005IA59

The paper’s rhetoric is unsupportable. It warns of a return to a 19th century minimal...

In Defence of Global Capitalism
Johan NorbergJune 2, 2005SP08

Political power has always been a creature of geography, based on physical control of a...

Papua New Guinea’s Choice: A Tale of Two Nations
Helen HughesMay 31, 2005IA58

Even these small beginnings invited a vigorous opposition. For police supplementing their pay by consorting...

Lessons from the Tiwi Islands: The Need for Radical Improvement in Remote Aboriginal Communities
John ClearyMay 24, 2005IA55

Radical change and new directions are needed if policies and delivery of services to remote...

The $85 Billion Tax/Welfare Churn
Peter SaundersApril 7, 2005IA57

This is the first of three papers in the series ‘Restoring Self-Reliance in Welfare’ analysing...

Universities in a State: The Federal Case Against Commonwealth Control of Universities
Andrew NortonMarch 24, 2005IA56

At the current time, though most university government funding comes from the federal government, for...

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Anastasia Lin: China and human rights
Anastasia Lin, Tom SwitzerAugust 16, 2019

China uses its trade power as leverage to infiltrate institutions and bully virtually every Western...

China debate: John Mearsheimer vs Hugh White
John Mearsheimer, Hugh WhiteAugust 12, 2019

For years, Australian policymakers have balanced China’s desire for an enhanced regional role with our...

The rise and fall of the liberal international order
John Mearsheimer, Tom SwitzerAugust 7, 2019

The so-called rules-based international order is under serious threat. But it is a mistake to...

Racial politics in modern America
Michael Ondaatje, Jeremy SammutAugust 1, 2019

As our 2019 Helen Hughes lecturer, Michael Ondaatje surveys the increasingly tribal political landscape of...

Corporate Virtue Signalling
Jeremy Sammut, Maurice NewmanJune 20, 2019

Dr Jeremy Sammut and Maurice Newman – former chairman of the Australian Stock Exchange and...

The banking sector after Hayne
Anna Bligh, Simon CowanJune 19, 2019

How do policymakers and regulators balance restoring trust in our financial system with maintaining the...

Human rights that give us our humanity
Lorraine Finlay, Robert ForsythNovember 24, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob chats to Lorraine Finlay, Human Rights Commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission, about...

That’s not democracy, this is democracy!
Roslyn Fuller, Robert ForsythNovember 17, 2022Liberalism in Question

On this episode Rob chats to author Roslyn Fuller. Liberals believe in the value of...

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...

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