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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...
Australia’s choice: Chinese trade – or American security?
Tom SwitzerJuly 27, 2018The Spectator

An assertive China and chaotic Trump administration are making it difficult to have both. For...

End of the West was long foretold
Tom SwitzerJuly 12, 2018AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

  The big question that hangs over Donald Trump’s trip through Europe is not whether...

The Western alliance is dead
Tom SwitzerJuly 8, 2018The Spectator USA

The Trump era will mark the demise of NATO, but the cause of the collapse...

Like it or not, Trump is a man of his word
Tom SwitzerJune 30, 2018The Sydney Morning Herald

Donald Trump continues to break conventions. Whereas typical politicians fail to honour their election pledges,...

Gaza slides further into violence, poverty and despair
Peter KurtiMay 18, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Sustained violence in protests along a series of staging points on the Gazan border with...

Is ignorance spurring a slide to socialism?
Eugenie JosephMay 2, 2018The Spectator Australia

The global Ipsos poll released today and published by Fairfax Media, entitled Attitudes towards Socialist...

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