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Exploring the implications of a liberal understanding of freedom for religion in civil society, and analysing religion as a form of social capital in the public sphere. Recent research focuses on anti-Semitism and religious hatred, along with broader questions as to the meaning and value of religion in Australia.

Back the plan and save Australia from hatred
Peter KurtiJuly 14, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH
Our Jewish neighbours, colleagues and friends are facing harassment, threats and exclusion in ways this...
When hatred finds a home in our institutions
Peter KurtiJune 12, 2025SPECTATOR

I recently watched the documentary October 8, a searing and distressing film about the aftermath...

When it feels like Australia is falling apart, hard truths can bring us back
Peter KurtiJune 12, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH

Faced with violent protests, rising antisemitism and growing cultural division, Australians are entitled to ask...

The ties that bind. Reconciling value pluralism and national identity
Peter KurtiJune 12, 2025AP81

Executive summary Australia’s multicultural democracy is under increasing pressure, not only from economic uncertainty but...

The New Intolerance: Antisemitism and religious hatred in a fracturing civic compact
June 10, 2025

A PERSONAL NOTE TO OUR SUPPORTERS Thank you for standing with the Centre for Independent...

Why hope still matters in a divided world
Peter KurtiApril 17, 2025AFR

Hope is easily dismissed as illusory when the grounds for holding fast to it appear...

Reframing an Ancient Hatred: the intersection of left-wing antisemitism and anti-Zionism
Julie ClaridgeDecember 11, 2025AP97
Anti-Zionism has evolved to create a further mutation of antisemitism, cloaking bias and discrimination in...
The ties that bind. Reconciling value pluralism and national identity
Peter KurtiJune 12, 2025AP81

Executive summary Australia’s multicultural democracy is under increasing pressure, not only from economic uncertainty but...

The Darkest Path: The Puzzling Resilience of Antisemitism. Acton Lecture 2025
Rabbi Benjamin EltonMarch 19, 2025OP206

Foreword The annual Acton Lecture, presented by the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program at...

Fractured Loyalties. Australian citizenship and the crisis of civic virtue
Peter KurtiMarch 6, 2025AP79

Can citizenship survive the end of tolerance? One of the principal tenets of a secular...

Interest, Usury and the Common Good
Ian Harper, Peter KurtiFebruary 20, 2025OP205

Introduction: Is there a problem with interest? Making money out of lending money has generated...

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Free to Speak and Free to Believe? What Australians think about freedom of speech
Peter Kurti, Scott PrasserApril 20, 2023AP47

To what extent do Australians think speech is free in this country? According to polling...

Left-wing Antisemitism rising
Peter KurtiAugust 23, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Evidence is mounting that antisemitism is on the rise. For a recent example, a CNN...

The Forgotten Freedom No More
Jeremy SammutJuly 19, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

As a think tanker, I sometimes jokingly refer to myself as a fact grubber and...

What’s happening to our live-and-let-live culture?
Peter KurtiJuly 12, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Free speech is being closed down in the name of preventing ‘hate speech’; bonds of...

Israel Folau: Moral compass all askew as virtue is eclipsed by values
Peter KurtiJuly 6, 2019The Australian

Unease is growing in Australia that something has changed for the worse in our live-and-let-live...

‘Harm’ getting out of hand
Robert ForsythJune 28, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

No one likes to harm others. But today the call to ‘avoid harm’ is getting...

GoFundMe don’t want tolerance, but unconditional surrender to identity politics
Peter KurtiJune 25, 2019The Spectator

GoFundMe’s decision to shut down Israel Folau’s crowdfunding page is shunting the debate about diversity...

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