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No red line likely
Peter KurtiNovember 9, 2012

It is reasonable to assume that had Mitt Romney won his race to the White...

And the winner is … Robamamney!
Benjamin HerscovitchNovember 9, 2012

As Barack Obama’s Midwest ‘firewall’ was delivering him the presidency, the ABC’s Mark Simkin asked...

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Smelling the fiscal rat
Robert CarlingNovember 2, 2012

Ordinary people don’t understand the entrails of government budgets, but they can certainly smell a...

Half-baked language policy is al dente
Benjamin HerscovitchNovember 2, 2012

The government’s recently released white paper, Australia in the Asian Century, is heavy on big...

Adoption: Proof think tanks CAN DO
Jeremy SammutNovember 2, 2012

The Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry has endorsed adoption ‘as one response’ to the...

2025 Neville Kennard Address: The Dire Plight of the Mainstream Right
Andrew NeilOctober 27, 2025OP210

This is an edited version of the speech given to the 2025 CIS Consilium event...

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...
Events, Dear Boy. Any Government Can Be Derailed
Tom SwitzerAugust 11, 2025OP207

Foreword After an election result as sobering as May 3, 2025, there is a temptation...

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Liberalism applied? Policy shifts in the transition from Chifley to Menzies
Tom SwitzerNovember 16, 2023MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Tom Switzer’s chapter in The Menzies Watershed: Liberalism, Anti-communism, Continuities 1943–1954 (Melbourne University Press) Introduction...

Bonds of belonging – renewing democracy in an atomised age
Professor Adrian PabstJune 1, 2023OP196

Introduction Liberal democracy is under threat from tech platforms, identity politics, and hostile foreign powers...

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Defining Democracy Down: Political Judicialisation, Judicial Politicisation
Helen DaleJuly 21, 2022PP46
The overruling of Roe v Wade by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)...
Deficit a worry and right-wing governments aren’t going to fix it
Simon CowanJuly 12, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
The CIS has been warning about the risks of debt and deficits for some time....
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Productivity stakes couldn’t be higher at roundtable
Gene TunnyJuly 4, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN
Productivity must trump politics in Labor’s second term...
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Arbitrarily increasing defence spending would be a waste of money
Simon CowanJune 28, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
Both sides of politics have allowed industry concerns and state government parochialism to dominate defence...
Lattouf judgment evidence of an ABC that has badly lost its way
Tom SwitzerJune 26, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH

The Federal Court’s judgment in favour of journalist Antoinette Lattouf represents not just humiliation for...

NSW budget must be adult in the room on sensible spending
Gene TunnyJune 24, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
The state’s debt levels remain high, with net debt currently around $110 billion and projected...
Any time someone tries to get ahead in Australia, the govt taxes them to the hilt
Simon CowanJune 14, 2025CANBERRA TIMES

It must have been a surreal experience for some this week. The Prime Minister was...

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