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Prophecies of an egalitarian utopia based on false assumptions
Peter SaundersSeptember 9, 2011The Australian

AS the British parliament rose for its summer recess this year, Opposition Leader Ed Miliband...

Life Under Challenging Regimes: Argentina and Zimbabwe
August 30, 2011
A man’s home is his castle
August 19, 2011

The movie The Castle portrayed an ordinary Australian family determined to exercise one of their...

Connect cyber with reality
Rebecca GillAugust 19, 2011

French sociologist Emile Durkheim came up with the concept of ‘anomie,’ a situation where individuals...

Living together demands civility
August 19, 2011The Canberra Times

The answer to increasingly hostile and aggressive public debate is a return to civility. Last...

Brits recoil from teaching respect for authority at home or school
Peter SaundersAugust 15, 2011The Australian

WHEN I was a student, I took a course in the sociology of deviance. After...

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)...
When hatred finds a home in our institutions
Peter KurtiJune 12, 2025SPECTATOR

I recently watched the documentary October 8, a searing and distressing film about the aftermath...

When it feels like Australia is falling apart, hard truths can bring us back
Peter KurtiJune 12, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH

Faced with violent protests, rising antisemitism and growing cultural division, Australians are entitled to ask...

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My cancer diagnosis was terrifying, but there are more reasons than ever to stay positive
Tom SwitzerJune 11, 2025SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

The video released this week by Prue Car, announcing that she is facing her second...

Why the Liberal Party struggles to regain ground
Simon CowanMay 31, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
The Liberals need to learn some political lessons from the result, but a lot of...
Why Libs and Nats will get the Coalition band back together
Tom SwitzerMay 21, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
The parties have been riven by very real personal and ideological tensions before, and still...
Australian states reap billions from mining. This revenue is already at risk
Gene Tunny, Simon CowanMay 17, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
As the pressure to rapidly phase out fossil fuels increases, the states will face an...
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