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Opinion pieces written by CIS researchers on current issues in their area of expertise are published in major media, adding creditable debate to conversations of national importance.

Risk of being burnt in the melting pot: There are costs to a society in taking in more asylum seekers
Helen HughesJanuary 4, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Asylum seekers have become, in parallel with terrorism and consequent on it, the first major...

The wasted decade: In the 90’s, America had unprecedented power, but did little with it. It must now rue its lost opportunity.
Owen HarriesDecember 18, 2001The Age

In the lead article of the current issue of the US journal Foreign Affairs, Fouad...

A generation drowns in boos: Repairing society’s attitude to rearing children would be revolutionary
Frank DevineDecember 13, 2001The Australian

Peter Saunders, Professor of sociology at the University of Sussex, said something dreadful at a...

The great drink-driving scandal: Police road blitzes are wasteful and an affront to our liberties
Peter SaundersDecember 13, 2001The Age

Over the last Labour Day weekend in NSW, 106,396 people were apprehended by the police...

Children pay the price of gender feminism war
Barry MaleyDecember 12, 2001The Sydney Morning Herald

For some radical feminists, males are patriarchal oppressors and the family is their torture chamber....

The damage done by the decline of marriage
Barry MaleyDecember 8, 2001The Age

In the past generation, Australian family life and marriage have undergone a revolution that has...

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