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First Principles
Robert CarlingJune 9, 2012Policy

Robert Carling provides an overview of how federalism in Australia works Read full article

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Q&A Back to the ‘Bad Old Days’? with Alexander Philipatos
June 8, 2012
Back to the ‘bad old days’? IR reform and the Fair Work Act
June 8, 2012
Bad or sad is not mad
Jeremy SammutJune 8, 2012

If I were accused of misappropriating other people’s money and my career was in jeopardy,...

Mabo and the concept of ownership
Sara HudsonJune 8, 2012

Sunday, 3 June, marked the 20th anniversary of the Mabo decision – when the High...

Tighten the rules on welfare payments
Peter SaundersJune 8, 2012ON LINE Opinion
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)...
The true lesson Aussies should learn from Trump’s victory
Simon CowanNovember 16, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

Since the US election result confirmed Donald Trump would re-enter the White House in triumph,...

How Trump made the biggest political comeback possible
Tom SwitzerNovember 6, 2024AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
The sad thing about this dispiriting election campaign is that it hasn’t clarified America’s problems,...
War on misinformation doomed to fail: tariffs a case in point
Simon CowanNovember 2, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

Experts in misinformation will no doubt be closely following the extraordinary claims being thrown around...

Property ownership key to closing the gap
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOOctober 26, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

The debate around land reform on Indigenous traditional lands has been going on for decades,...

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Having an authority to rule on what is truth is deeply problematic
Simon CowanOctober 18, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

There is no better sign of the loss of faith in democracy than the belief...

White demographics did not drive the Voice vote
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOOctober 16, 2024AFR

It has been 12 months since the Voice Referendum was defeated and you have to...

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