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Government Intervention in Mortgage Finance: The Case Against ‘AussieMac’
Stephen KirchnerSeptember 8, 2008IA99

The sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States that began in August 2007 has had...

The Role of Government in a Liberal Society
Suri RatnapalaSeptember 2, 2008OP113

Modern government has grown out of all proportion, becoming a serious threat to life, liberty,...

The Faulty Arguments Behind Australia’s Corporate Tax
Sinclair DavidsonAugust 23, 2008PM87

In Australia, the primary function of taxation is to finance government spending. Its secondary objectives...

The Bipolar Pacific
Helen HughesAugust 21, 2008IA98

Australians have become accustomed to bad news from the Pacific islands. Conflict in the Solomon...

Anglo Primacy and the End of History: The Deep Roots of Power
Tom FrameAugust 1, 2008OP109

The 24th Annual John Bonython Lecture Whether the United States should lead the world is...

Declaring Dependence, Declaring Independence: Three Essays on the Future of the Welfare State
Peter SaundersAugust 1, 2008OP111

In a time when governments are running up enormous welfare bills and intrusively regulating everyday...

Confessions of an Industrial Relations Club reporter
Michael StutchburyNovember 21, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
A half-century on from stagflation, outdated workplace rules and union monopolies remain the biggest barrier...
Australian money
Double the debt and half the fiscal clues
Robert CarlingNovember 21, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH
The Labor government’s early surpluses now look like a flash in the pan and the...
A good budget means setting some rules and adhering to them
Robert Carling, Simon CowanNovember 15, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
There is a long history of fiscal rules, but the overall record is patchy, with...
Tolerance ends where darkest hatred begins
Peter KurtiNovember 12, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH

Tolerance is often treated as an unqualified virtue. But even virtues have limits. When men...

SUPER WARS
Productivity Commission piles in to Labor’s schizophrenic war on big business
Michael StutchburyNovember 7, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Industry Minister Tim Ayres rightly says that Australia is in competition for global capital as...

The hard truth: why the government should let this smelter fail
Simon CowanNovember 1, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
If Tomago meets the criteria for a taxpayer bailout, then so do thousands of other...
Q&A Australia’s Urban Water Challenge Rebecca Gill
May 17, 2011
The CIS at 35
May 11, 2011
Rebecca Gill – Australia’s Urban Water Challenge: A Drought of Ideas
May 2, 2011
Rebecca Gill – Australia’s Urban Water Challenge: A Drought of Ideas
May 2, 2011
Jeremy Sammut – Q&A
April 22, 2011
Jeremy Sammut – Billions of Dollars and Thousands of Hours: The Great Medicare Misspend
April 14, 2011
How loss of cheap energy pressures wage system | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyNovember 27, 2025

You can listen to The Stutchbury Sessions on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM or listen...

Dark Forces at Work? Sir Frank Lowy on the Return of Antisemitism | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyOctober 10, 2025Liberalism in Question

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Iron, Ideas, and Abundance: Supply Side Mistakes and Lessons | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 26, 2025

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Why Australians Vote for Big Government | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 19, 2025

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Our Prosperity is Slipping Away | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 16, 2025

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Protests, Polarisation and Immigration | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 15, 2025

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