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A Better Future With a Future Fund
David Murray AOJanuary 30, 2024PP53
The Future Fund has a clear public accountability framework, which is consistent with international best...
Facing Up To Maths Anxiety: How It Affects Achievement And What Can Be Done About It
David C. GearyJanuary 23, 2024AP61

Executive summary The mathematical competencies of students have a long-term influence on their employability and...

Prison
What is prison good for?
Peter Kurti, Maya KuranaJanuary 18, 2024AP60

A. Introduction: If crime is the question, is prison the answer? The crime rate for...

Adam Smith and Why He Matters Today
Paul Oslington, David M. HartDecember 7, 2023OP199
Adam Smith, the Scottish philosopher and economist, is one of the most significant figures to...
closing loopholes
Closing Opportunities, Not Loopholes
Gene TunnyNovember 30, 2023AP49
The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 would have adverse effects on Australia’s...
infrastructure, building, blowout, tax
Bungles, Blowouts and Boondoggles: why Australia’s infrastructure projects cost more than they should
Grahame CampbellNovember 23, 2023OP198
A large amount of taxpayers’ money, state and federal, is expended on large scale infrastructure...
A Budget That Voters Want? We’ll Find Out
Peter TulipApril 5, 2022Epoch Times

The most striking feature of Tuesday’s 2022-23 federal budget is how well the Australian economy...

Josh Frydenberg
The silence surrounding the budget is deafening
Simon CowanMarch 26, 2022Canberra Times
We are just a couple of days out from the budget and things are eerily...
Australian bank notes
Treasurer should say goodbye to old friend bracket creep
Robert CarlingMarch 22, 2022Financial Review
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been busy massaging pre-budget expectations. We are told to expect an...
St Kilda Synagogue
The Subtle Forms of Antisemitism in Australia
Peter KurtiMarch 21, 2022Epoch Times
Many Australians assume that antisemitism—the hatred of Jews—is a cloud seldom casting a shadow over...
Media interview
We can, and must, stop the violence and dysfunction
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOMarch 18, 2022The Australian
It’s just over week since a Northern Territory jury found Constable Zachary Rolfe not guilty...
Refueling car
Why Cutting Fuel Excise Isn’t the Best Option to Ease Cost of Living in Australia
Peter TulipMarch 17, 2022Epoch Times
As surging petrol prices eat into household budgets, politicians have been trying to demonstrate their...
Disability Support Pensions with Jessica Brown
September 28, 2011
Jessica Brown on Today Tonight – Dole Dynasties
September 28, 2011
Q&A: Making Sense of the Middle East Upheavals – Daniel Pipes
September 23, 2011
Making Sense of the Middle East Upheavals – Daniel Pipes
September 23, 2011
Making Sense of the Middle East Upheavals – Daniel Pipes
September 23, 2011
CIS Occasional Interviews: Daniel Pipes
September 23, 2011
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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