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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.

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...

Stick it to ‘em
Peter KurtiAugust 12, 2011

Fuelled by nights of drinking and looting, two teenage girls tweeted enthusiastically about the London...

Media force for democracy
August 12, 2011

Only a few weeks ago, a motley crew of jumpy Ministers and gloating Greens demanded...

Evil handbag-waving Thatcher has nothing to do with it
Brendan O'NeillAugust 12, 2011

The British chattering classes can’t make up their minds about what triggered the furious urban...

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)...
This childcare overhaul will actually do very little for parents
Simon CowanDecember 14, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

The news this week that the Prime Minister has committed to abolishing the activity test...

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Do the maths or we’ll never be a STEM superpower
Glenn FaheyDecember 12, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

Calls for Australia to become a STEM superpower will never be answered unless our students...

Cutting gas risks plunging Australia into blackouts
Grahame CampbellDecember 3, 2024DAILY TELEGRAPH
If anti-gas campaigns succeed, Australia could face a wave of blackouts due to the inherent...
Banning under 16s? Maybe we could try literally any less draconian measure first
Simon Cowan, Emilie DyeNovember 30, 2024CANBERRA TIMES
Australia has become the first country in the world to attempt banning social media for...
Blackout fears prove our living standards are slipping
Aidan MorrisonNovember 29, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

One good reason to have a controllable supply of electricity at our disposal is to...

Freedom of speech not protected through censorship
Tom Switzer, Emilie DyeNovember 26, 2024Centre for Independent Studies

The federal government’s decision this week to withdraw its legislation requiring social media companies to...

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