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Our media releases, opinion pieces, commentary, videos and audio podcasts are available in this section. Our experts are able to comment on a range of policy areas amd issues. Please contact our Communications Director, Karla Pincott via phone 0407 716 752 or email kpincott@cis.org.au

Why is Australia So Much Richer than New Zealand?
Phil RennieDecember 4, 2007IA90

Australians are a third richer than New Zealanders. Per capita GDP (adjusted for purchasing power...

Exploring a Carbon Tax for Australia
John HumphreysNovember 6, 2007PM80

It is not a foregone conclusion that we need a carbon trading scheme or a...

The Coming Crisis of Medicare: What the Intergenerational Reports should say, but don’t, about health and ageing
Jeremy SammutNovember 1, 2007PM79

Economic growth is not going to generate the revenue we need to provide the health...

Child Care: Who Benefits?
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 24, 2007IA89

Arguments for the public funding of child care rest on the claim that it is...

Tax Competition: Much To Do About Very Little
Sinclair DavidsonOctober 15, 2007PM78

Sinclair Davidson challenges the notion of ‘harmful’ international tax competition. He argues that in the...

Kava and after in the Nhulunbuy (Gulf of Carpenteria) Hinterland
Helen HughesOctober 8, 2007IA88

Worldwide, people strive to educate their children, to work, to own or rent a decent...

Government is no Santa: the costs of stimulus
John HumphreysNovember 30, 0001Online Opinion

The government stimulus might look good now, but the long term consequence will be upward...

Dr Stephen Kirchner – Why Does Government Grow?
April 11, 2011
Preview: Billions of Dollars and Thousands of Hours: The Great Medicare Misspend – Jeremy Sammut
April 5, 2011
Professor James Allan – Watch What You Say: The Language of Human Rights in Civil Society
April 3, 2011
Rebecca Gill- Water Provision for a Growing Australia
March 28, 2011
Professor James Allan – The Job of Judges in Democratic Society
March 24, 2011
Professor James Allan – Human Rights in Civil Society
March 24, 2011
How loss of cheap energy pressures wage system | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburyNovember 27, 2025

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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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