• China

While accepting the importance and value of the trade relationship with China, our new program called China and Free Societies aims to raise awareness of the challenges growing Chinese government influence poses to a free and democratic Australia.

Could China make the world safer for autocracy?
Sue WindybankMay 10, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

How can a liberal democratic country like Australia engage with an increasingly illiberal and authoritarian...

Living with the panda and the dragon
Sue WindybankApril 17, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

There is an emerging consensus that Australia is entering a new and much tougher era...

China and Free Societies
Sue Windybank, John Lee, James LaurencesonApril 11, 2019

Sue Windybank moderated a discussion with, John Lee, former senior advisor to foreign minister Julie...

Does Western Civilisation Have a Future?
Wolfgang KasperFebruary 19, 2019PP17

The question, whether our civilisation has a future, will sound preposterous to many. Has Western...

Sorry kids, but no socialism for you
Thomas CoppelJanuary 23, 2019Spectator

Views that Australia will turn into a utopia under socialism are wildly uninformed, and John...

Foreign threats to free speech at unis
Blaise JosephOctober 26, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The growing concern about academic freedom and free speech on university campuses typically relates to...

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