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Fuel tax exposes class divide
Eugenie JosephDecember 7, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Charismatic French President Emmanuel Macron has made a political faux-pas: his decision to jack up...

Polling shows we are unlikely to see Australia splinter
Jeremy SammutNovember 23, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Ever since the stunning 2016 Brexit vote in the UK and the Trump election victory...

Integration of migrants the key concern
Monica WilkieNovember 23, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The sad reality is that we live in an age of global Islamist terrorism from...

Blue wave not a wipeout
Tom SwitzerNovember 9, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

This week was the American electorate’s first opportunity to render a national verdict on Trump’s...

Blue wave fails to wipe out Republicans
Tom SwitzerNovember 8, 2018ASPI Strategist

Not so long ago, the media consensus was that the Democrats would ride a ‘wave’...

A Democratic wave or Trump triumph? – Panel Discussion on US Mid Terms 2018 Elections Results
Greg Sheridan, April Palmerlee, Bob Carr, Tom SwitzerNovember 7, 2018

US midterm elections are usually bad for the President’s party, but amid a booming economy...

After Bondi: What must the Royal Commission achieve
Josh Frydenberg, Lorraine Finlay, Ronald Sackville AO KC, Peter KurtiApril 9, 2026OP213

Foreword On Tuesday 31 March 2026, the Centre for Independent Studies hosted a forum at...

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...
Hours, Not Dollars: Rethinking the cost-of-living debate 
Marian L. TupyFebruary 23, 2026AP102

Executive Summary Public debate about the ‘cost-of-living crisis’ often confuses nominal price increases with declining...

Overcoming Enmity and Restoring Tolerance. Antisemitism’s challenge for the civic compact
Damien FreemanFebruary 5, 2026AP99

Foreword When the Book of Genesis speaks of enmity between the serpent and the descendants...

Future No Longer Made in Australia: How we lost our low-cost electricity advantage
December 18, 2025IA154
Trouble has been brewing in Australia’s smelting paradise over the last two decades, as rising...
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,...

Why bother?
August 26, 2011

Privatisation in New Zealand is a political swear-word. Its very mention is meant to invoke...

America and Europe jump together
Oliver Marc HartwichAugust 19, 2011

Reading news from both sides of the North Atlantic, it looks as if America and...

Setting a European time bomb
Oliver Marc HartwichAugust 10, 2011Business Spectator

The announcement by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade US government debt may have been historic...

US Congress swapped a crisis yesterday for a bigger crisis tomorrow
August 9, 2011Crikey

I provoked a tirade of abuse from Crikey readers in the past fortnight when I...

Curing insanity with madness
Oliver Marc HartwichAugust 5, 2011

Peter Saunders has always been an outspoken academic. So it is no surprise that he...

Hitting pause on the eurozone crisis
Oliver Marc HartwichAugust 4, 2011Business Spectator

Every year, the Centre for Independent Studies hosts a high-level conference in Queensland. One of...

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