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Peta Credlin on 2019
Tom Switzer, Simon Cowan, Peta CredlinDecember 3, 2019

A political overview of 2019 from Peta Credlin, host of Credlin on Sky News Live...

Waking up to the China Challenge
Peter Hartcher, Julie BishopNovember 28, 2019

China has become a key nation for Australia’s future – for our security, economy and...

Waking up to the China challenge
Tom Switzer, Peter Hartcher, Julie BishopNovember 28, 2019

China has become a key nation for Australia’s future – for our security, economy and...

Xinjiang Papers: chronicle of a tragedy foretold
Sue WindybankNovember 22, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Recent reporting of a 400-page leak from within the Chinese Communist Party — dubbed The...

Brexit vs expertocrats
Lukas OpacicOctober 25, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The British Commons has finally approved Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, but declined to approve its...

Mandate from Heaven?
Salvatore BabonesOctober 19, 2019The National Interest

When Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in 1976, Chinese communism perished with him. Mao had...

Humankind and the infinite resource base
Marian L. TupyApril 2, 2026OP212

This paper examines the human ability to expand our resource base into infinity. Given human...

The Legislative Fantasy. Hate Speech, Culture, and Institutional Failure
Dimitri BurshteinMarch 26, 2026AP103

Foreword The Bondi Beach attack of 14 December 2025 forced a reckoning that many Australians...

Generation Trapped. Housing, handouts, and the collapse of young Australians’ life satisfaction
Parnell Palme McGuinnessMarch 19, 2026RR52

Executive summary Over the past several decades, Australian society has undergone profound economic, social, and...

Why We Should Not Increase Capital Gains Tax
Robert CarlingMarch 11, 2026PP64
Debate about capital gains tax rarely occurs in isolation. It typically emerges during periods of...
10 CGT Myths Busted
Robert CarlingMarch 11, 2026IA155

The criticisms and characterisation of the 50% capital gains tax discount over many years have...

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...
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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