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Harmacy: The Political Economy of Community Pharmacy in Australia
December 11, 2008

PHARMACY INDUSTRY IS ANTICOMPETITIVE AND KEEPING PRICES UP The community pharmacy industry is dressing up...

How China bought its graduates’ loyalty
John LeeDecember 8, 2008The Guardian

Attend a dinner party with a random sample of China’s 5 million university graduates each...

Is the new National-led government up to the task of remaking New Zealand?
Luke MalpassNovember 27, 2008Remaking New Zealand

Once the dust from the financial crisis settles, there is a lot of work to...

Why Obama must look to the Pacific before the Atlantic
John LeeNovember 19, 2008Opinion Asia

It is significant that the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States...

Beijing’s stimulus may not help its struggling consumption donkey
John LeeNovember 15, 2008International business time

China likes to think big. It has the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, and now a...

Should Australia moderate between the US and China?
John LeeNovember 13, 2008Online Opinion

Ever since the election of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, editorials in China’s state-sponsored media have...

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...
Countering China’s BRI march
Hugh MorrisonOctober 5, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

As China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) marches west through Southern Asia, diplomatic envoys criss-cross...

Au pair system works for parents
Eugenie JosephSeptember 14, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Au pairs represent one of the last bastions of unregulated childcare. It is therefore unsurprising...

Company tax is more than a political football
Robert CarlingAugust 17, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The company income tax rate is to be cut to 25% in 2022. You read...

Pacific anxiety: Should we worry about China?
Hugh MorrisonAugust 17, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

China’s increasing aid and infrastructure projects in the Pacific have stirred considerable media attention. But...

Global tenet (barely) keeping world on its best behaviour
Tom SwitzerJuly 31, 2018The Australian

How often do you hear about the “rules-based international order”? It just rolls off the...

The West might be losing it – but China is far from winning
Tom SwitzerJuly 30, 2018The Sydney Morning Herald

For more than two centuries, the Western world has dominated international affairs. Is that epoch...

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