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

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

Growth that Builds: Beyond the immigration blame game 
Marian L. TupyMarch 5, 2026PP63
This paper argues that Australia’s housing crisis is primarily a supply failure, not simply a...
Hours, Not Dollars: Rethinking the cost-of-living debate 
Marian L. TupyFebruary 23, 2026AP102

Executive Summary Public debate about the ‘cost-of-living crisis’ often confuses nominal price increases with declining...

Overcoming Enmity and Restoring Tolerance. Antisemitism’s challenge for the civic compact
Damien FreemanFebruary 5, 2026AP99

Foreword When the Book of Genesis speaks of enmity between the serpent and the descendants...

Future No Longer Made in Australia: How we lost our low-cost electricity advantage
December 18, 2025IA154
Trouble has been brewing in Australia’s smelting paradise over the last two decades, as rising...
The Unworkable Solution: An Economic Assessment of a Cashflow Tax for Australia
Sinclair DavidsonNovember 6, 2025AP93

Executive Summary Australia faces persistent economic challenges. Productivity growth has slowed, business investment is uneven,...

Comrade Nelson v Adam Nelson
January 25, 2006The Australian

That Brendan Nelson was a busy higher education policymaker nobody can doubt, but it is...

Operating at breaking point
Nick CoatsworthJanuary 24, 2006The Courier Mail

No one likes a complaining doctor. Doctors are supposed to cure complaints, not make them....

Whichever way you dice it, compulsory voting is evil
Derek ChongJanuary 23, 2006The Canberra Times

One of the great myths of Australian politics is that voting isn’t really compulsory. The...

Tax overhaul long due
Peter SaundersJanuary 20, 2006The Australian

Despite repeated attempts by the Government to ignore it, the clamour for tax reform just...

Let’s fix foreign aid fiasco
Wolfgang KasperJanuary 19, 2006The Australian

Corruption was long accepted simply as fate. In the West, people began to fight the...

The wrongs of pushing a bill of rights
Alan AndersonJanuary 4, 2006The Age

The Bracks Government’s plan for a Victorian bill of rights is the latest step in...

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“I’m the the expert in me” —the value of individual freedom
Robert Forsyth, Emilie DyeOctober 13, 2022Liberalism in Question

“I’m the the expert in me” —the value of individual freedom. In this discussion we...

The power of choice that makes society better—even if it not appreciated
Tom Switzer, Robert ForsythOctober 6, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob sits down the Centre for Independent Studies executive director Tom Switzer. Tom discusses with...

What’s needed to revive liberalism; ideas and a spine
Ruth Richardson, Robert ForsythSeptember 29, 2022Liberalism in Question

A fierce reformer for liberalism, Ruth Richardson is asked whether the ship of reforming liberalism...

Liberalism as fundamentalism
Robert Forsyth, Gordon MenziesFebruary 1, 2022Liberalism in Question
Rob and Gordon discuss issues arising from Gordon’s 2020 book Western Fundamentalism in which he...
Why liberalism is essential to the arts
Robert Forsyth, Simon Mordant AM AOJanuary 25, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob and Simon discuss how important liberalism is as philosophy of freedom and equality, despite...

Liberalism says No to the Voice to Parliament!
Robert Forsyth, Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOJanuary 18, 2022Liberalism in Question

Rob and Warren discuss at length why Warren believes liberalism is good for indigenous Australians,...

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