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A reminder of darker times
A. Hamlin, James Q. Wilson, Jeremy Shearmur, L.J. Hulme, Neil McInnesSeptember 14, 2001The Daily Telegraph

It has been said that those who lack the imagination of disaster are doomed to...

Time to reconsider our US ties
Owen HarriesSeptember 10, 2001The Australian Financial Review

You win one, you lose one. Immediately after coming out of the Tampa affair well...

Smaller government the answer for Fiji
Wolfgang KasperMarch 6, 2001The Sydney Morning Herald

Fiji has scored rather poorly since independence on economic growth, security and social harmony. The...

Towards Racial Harmony: A New Constitution for Fiji
Wolfgang KasperMarch 5, 2001IA19

Repeated ‘constitutional accidents’ have shown that Fiji’s internal stability, security, peace and prosperity cannot be...

Breaking the Trade Stalemate: What Are Australia’s Options?
Wolfgang KasperFebruary 12, 2001IA18

Australia’s best hope of long-term trade liberalisation lies in signing a free trade agreement with...

Setting the Record Straight: Free Trade and the WTO
David RobertsonSeptember 4, 2000IA15

By allowing social issues into the WTO agenda using tenuous links to trade policy, the...

Political legitimacy, harm protections and our freedoms
Paul TaylorNovember 10, 2025OP211
This article considers different concepts of ‘legitimacy’ and their contribution to understanding the difference between...
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,...

Knowledge is power: What do teachers believe about learning?
Trisha JhaOctober 30, 2025AP92

Executive Summary This report presents findings from literature about what teachers believe about how students...

2025 Neville Kennard Address: The Dire Plight of the Mainstream Right
Andrew NeilOctober 27, 2025OP210

This is an edited version of the speech given to the 2025 CIS Consilium event...

Risky Business. How The Energy Transition Introduces Risks That Raise Retail Costs
Jude BlikOctober 23, 2025AP91

Executive Summary The electricity system in Australia is adjusting to an increase in the overall...

2025 John Bonython Lecture: The Axis of Autocracy – New World Disorder
Andrew NeilOctober 16, 2025OP209
Far from it being the end of history, the story of this century so far...
Iraq adventure is rich in dangerous precedents
Owen HarriesFebruary 21, 2005The Sydney Morning Herald

To a remarkable degree, the debate over Iraq has been conducted in moral terms. President...

Action needed on al-Qa’ida’s hiding place
Miranda DarlingJanuary 17, 2005The Australian

The devastation in Asia caused by the tsunami has understandably overshadowed the horrors being perpetrated...

Iraq is the failure the US had to have
Owen HarriesJanuary 7, 2005The Sydney Morning Herald

As every schoolboy knows (just kidding), there is a useful term for a successful military...

Only harsh medicine can save Nauru
Helen HughesAugust 31, 2004The Courier Mail

Nauru is an isolated 21 sq km Pacific island, more than 3,500 kms from Brisbane....

Only internal reform can rescue a stagnant PNG
Helen HughesJuly 15, 2004The Canberra Times

PAPUA New Guinea's GDP growth, with good weather and high mineral export prices, is still...

Germans bogged down in Red-Green quagmire
Wolfgang KasperJuly 12, 2004The Australian Financial Review

Australians, who are confused by the challenges of globalisation, innovation, ageing and the need to...

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