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America and the World: The Crisis of Legitimacy
Robert KaganDecember 28, 2004OP93

America is suffering a crisis of international legitimacy. So where will it find it?  ...

The Pacific is Viable!
Helen HughesDecember 2, 2004IA53

All is quiet in the Pacific. The past year has seen no coups or new...

Morality and Foreign Policy
Owen HarriesNovember 19, 2004OP94

Owen Harries explores the intellectual heritage of two opposing positions on morality in foreign policy;...

A Voluntary Free Trade Alliance: How to Overcome Hurdles in the Path of Traders and Investors
Wolfgang KasperSeptember 9, 2004IA52

This paper outlines and endorses a new initiative for a Global Free Trade Alliance that...

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....

From Riches to Rags What Are Nauru’s Options and How Can Australia Help?
Helen HughesAugust 18, 2004IA50

Thirty years after enjoying the world’s second highest per capita GDP after Saudi Arabia, Nauru...

Future No Longer Made in Australia: How we lost our low-cost electricity advantage
Zoe Hilton, Michael StutchburyDecember 18, 2025IA154
Trouble has been brewing in Australia’s smelting paradise over the last two decades, as rising...
Reframing an Ancient Hatred: the intersection of left-wing antisemitism and anti-Zionism
Julie ClaridgeDecember 11, 2025AP97
Anti-Zionism has evolved to create a further mutation of antisemitism, cloaking bias and discrimination in...
Politics of Pressure: how government intervention left us short of gas
Grahame CampbellDecember 4, 2025AP96

Introduction Australia’s natural gas sector has transformed dramatically between 1975 and 2025. What began...

Taxing Tobacco into Illegality: how split responsibilities and high excise created Australia’s tobacco wars
Sinclair DavidsonNovember 27, 2025AP95

Executive Summary Australia’s tobacco control policy has reached a breaking point. For decades, bans on...

Childcare in Australia: A new approach
Gigi FosterNovember 20, 2025RR51

Executive summary Several well-known bodies, from the Productivity Commission to the Australian Competition and Consumer...

Keeping Budgets on the Rails: Rules for Fiscal Responsibility
Robert CarlingNovember 13, 2025AP94

Executive Summary Fiscal rules are numerical limits to one or more of government spending, revenue,...

Was Donald Trump 2020’s biggest loser?
Simon CowanJanuary 2, 2021Canberra Times

Another year over. And thank god for that! 2020 can get right in the bin....

Advice holds: see China as it is, not as it ought to be
Tom SwitzerDecember 29, 2020THE AUSTRALIAN

A good mate of mine died this year. He was 90 — four decades my...

Why Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Had It Right
Tom SwitzerDecember 25, 2020THE NATIONAL INTEREST

THIRTY YEARS ago, the quintessential neoconservative Jeane J. Kirkpatrick argued in The National Interest that...

Acquiescence is not the answer
Tom SwitzerDecember 4, 2020Ideas@theCentre

We are told that Australia’s political leaders must try to ‘rebuild trust’ with Beijing, while...

Critics of Australia’s China policy don’t have much to offer
Tom SwitzerNovember 30, 2020Financial Review

American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the...

Repudiation of the US left
Tom SwitzerNovember 12, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

According to the media conventional wisdom, the 2020 US elections represent a repudiation of Trumpism....

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