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After Bondi: What must the Royal Commission achieve
Josh Frydenberg, Lorraine Finlay, Ronald Sackville AO KC, Peter KurtiApril 9, 2026OP213

Foreword On Tuesday 31 March 2026, the Centre for Independent Studies hosted a forum at...

Humankind and the infinite resource base
Marian L. TupyApril 2, 2026OP212

This paper examines the human ability to expand our resource base into infinity. Given human...

The Legislative Fantasy. Hate Speech, Culture, and Institutional Failure
Dimitri BurshteinMarch 26, 2026AP103

Foreword The Bondi Beach attack of 14 December 2025 forced a reckoning that many Australians...

Generation Trapped. Housing, handouts, and the collapse of young Australians’ life satisfaction
Parnell Palme McGuinnessMarch 19, 2026RR52

Executive summary Over the past several decades, Australian society has undergone profound economic, social, and...

Why We Should Not Increase Capital Gains Tax
Robert CarlingMarch 11, 2026PP64
Debate about capital gains tax rarely occurs in isolation. It typically emerges during periods of...
10 CGT Myths Busted
Robert CarlingMarch 11, 2026IA155

The criticisms and characterisation of the 50% capital gains tax discount over many years have...

Our state of disgrace
Helen HughesMay 31, 2007The Courier Mail

Queensland, with a quarter of Australia's Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, has some of their...

Helen Hughes writes on Lands of Shame
Helen HughesMay 26, 2007The Australian Financial Review

The pernicious permit system that censors reporting about remote ‘homelands’ has been sufficiently broken into...

An edited extract from Lands of Shame
Helen HughesMay 26, 2007The Weekend Enquirer

After the passage of the 1967 referendum, and with the beginning of the transfer of...

Mass Destruction, Mass Distribution
May 22, 2007The Wall Street Journal

On the Siberian side of the Ural Mountains, two time zones east of Moscow and...

An extract from Lands of Shame
Helen HughesMay 22, 2007The Canberra Times

About a third of Australia's 500,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders work in mainstream jobs,...

Give parents informed choice for schooling
Jennifer Buckingham OAMMay 18, 2007The Newcastle Herald

In his widely-reported speech to The Centre for Independent Studies this week, the Prime Minister...

Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It – Jeremy Sammut
April 29, 2013
Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It – Jeremy Sammut
April 29, 2013
Federalism – Robert Carling on ABC The Drum
April 24, 2013
After the Welfare State – Tom Palmer
April 23, 2013
After the Welfare State – Q&A with Dr Tom Palmer, Professor Peter Saunders and Adam Creighton
April 23, 2013
Andrew Baker on ‘TARGET30-Tax welfare churn & the Australian welfare state’
March 26, 2013
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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