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At times, issues of international or national importance do not fit under the Economics, Education, Indigenous and Foreign Affairs programs. The publications and commentary related to non-program issues can be found here, as well as work from past programs such as Health and Aging.

Beware the shifting winds in Australia
Tom SwitzerNovember 23, 2018The Sydney Morning Herald

When prime ministers leave office, they usually write their autobiographies – or, in Kevin Rudd’s...

Bill McMahon, an eccentric economic reformer?
John Howard OM AC, Paul Kelly, Patrick MullinsNovember 20, 2018

William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics. Was...

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’...

Luke Foley’s Values & His Vision for the Labor Party
Luke FoleyNovember 6, 2018

The NSW Opposition leader visited the CIS to set out an overview of Labor’s vision...

Luke Foley at CIS
Tom Switzer, Luke FoleyNovember 6, 2018

The former NSW Opposition leader Luke Foley visited the CIS to set out an overview...

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)...
Liberals must stop treating women, professionals, young people as the disposables
Trisha JhaMay 5, 2025AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
A frequent error is the assumption that to appeal to these demographics, Liberals must change...
This is not as much about Trump as it is about the failure of modern politics
Simon CowanMay 3, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
The simple reality is that major parties across the world need to start measuring their...
Energy pain in Spain should ring alarm bells in Australia
Aidan MorrisonMay 2, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN

On 16 April, Spain achieved an electricity landmark: 100% renewable energy penetration. Twelve days later,...

Donald Trump can’t bully Adam Smith
Tom SwitzerApril 29, 2025AFR

Nearly 40 years ago, during her transformative and market-driven prime ministership of the United Kingdom,...

‘More affordable housing’ actually makes a large cohort of voters very angry
Simon CowanApril 19, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
Actual solutions would involve negotiating with state and local government to change the policy settings...
Why hope still matters in a divided world
Peter KurtiApril 17, 2025AFR

Hope is easily dismissed as illusory when the grounds for holding fast to it appear...

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