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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...
Why Nothing Is Permanent in Politics | Tom Switzer, Michael Stutchbury & Bob Carr
Tom SwitzerOctober 3, 2025

The Liberals are in their deepest political valley while Labor sits atop the highest mountain...

Iron, Ideas, and Abundance: Supply Side Mistakes and Lessons | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 26, 2025

You can listen to The Stutchbury Sessions on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM or listen...

Why Australians Vote for Big Government | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 19, 2025

You can listen to The Stutchbury Sessions on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM or listen...

Our Prosperity is Slipping Away | The Stutchbury Sessions
Michael StutchburySeptember 16, 2025

You can listen to The Stutchbury Sessions on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM or listen...

Why India’s Democracy Doesn’t Make Sense to Western Experts | Salvatore Babones
Salvatore Babones, Tom SwitzerJuly 31, 2025

India maintains the world’s largest democracy with 75 years of continuous constitutional rule – yet...

An economic walk on the supply side
Michael StutchburyOctober 16, 2025OP208

This is an edited version of Michael Stutchbury’s keynote address to the 2025 Freedom to...

Drawing the Line: Moral Conflict and the Fragility of Liberal Tolerance
Peter KurtiOctober 9, 2025AP90
Liberal democracies face an unprecedented challenge: how to govern societies where citizens no longer disagree...
The Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
Zoe Hilton, Michael Wu , Aidan MorrisonOctober 2, 2025AP89
The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the...
The rule of law, excessive regulation and free speech
Paul TaylorSeptember 11, 2025AP88

Foreword In the day that the 2024 parliamentary session concluded, more than 30 bills were...

Our Prosperity is Slipping Away: Submission to Economic Reform Roundtable 
August 18, 2025AP87

 Introduction As Reserve Bank deputy governor Andrew Hauser noted last year, it can be...

Addressing Australia’s Productivity Problem. CORE Blueprint to Unshackle Productivity
Jim CoxAugust 14, 2025AP86

Introduction There is no one action that will lift Australia’s dwindling productivity growth; it is...

Greece bailout: prolonging pain for no real gain
Adam CreightonJuly 22, 2011The Australian Financial Review

Is there a famine in Bavaria? No, but Edmund Stoiber, former German state premier, said...

Paying dearly for European insanity
Oliver Marc HartwichJuly 21, 2011Business Spectator

Europe’s political elites are gathered in Brussels today for yet another emergency summit on the...

The PC empire strikes back
Oliver Marc HartwichJuly 20, 2011The Australian

FORMER career civil servants and central bankers seldom have star potential. Their work rarely excites...

Pakistan a Chinese pawn to stall India
John LeeJuly 19, 2011The Australian

AT the Shangri-La Dialogue meeting of defence ministers in Singapore last month, Indian Defence Minister...

A bad time to damage our economy as the next stage of the GFC looms
Oliver Marc HartwichJuly 15, 2011The Australian

WITH the US fiscal crisis nearing a dramatic finale, downgrades of European debt ratings continuing...

Australian tax system inspires NZ Labour
Luke MalpassJuly 15, 2011

The NZ Labour Party has been languishing in the polls ever since it lost government...

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