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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.

A win for Big Bureaucracy
Adam CreightonJuly 15, 2011

Good economists believe that bigger government is inefficient and retards prosperity; good liberals believe it...

Australia’s Angry Mayors: How Population Growth Frustrates Local Councils
Oliver Marc HartwichJuly 14, 2011PM120

To understand the effects of a growing population on Australia’s councils, CIS surveyed local authorities...

Carbon tax could have united us all
July 13, 2011The Age

THREE dollars a year. That's how much of a tax cut Australians earning more than...

NSW health problems 100 years in the making
Jeremy SammutJuly 8, 2011

Cataloguing the ‘achievements’ of the O’Farrell government’s first 100 days is an artificial measure of...

ASEAN must include US in talks on South China Sea
July 5, 2011The Jakarta Post

  Chastened by its failure to successfully negotiate a settlement in the recent border dispute...

Foreign investment will boost food security
Stephen KirchnerJuly 2, 2011The Australian Financial Review

There is perhaps only one issue in federal politics that seemingly unites Labor, coalition, Green...

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)...
Why Republicans are sceptical about funding Ukraine
Tom SwitzerMarch 7, 2024SPECTATOR UK

When US policy-makers supported Nato expansion in the 1990s, it was widely believed that America,...

A noble exit: When stepping down is a profound act of service
Steven SchwartzMarch 6, 2024SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE

In the grand, gold-leafed halls of American politics, where the only thing older than the...

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Maths show supermarkets not to blame for cost-of-living crisis
Robert CarlingFebruary 28, 2024AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Supermarkets have clearly become the poster children for alleged ‘price gouging’ behaviour in the cost-of-living...

Time for Marles to steer HMAS Defence
Andrew BlythFebruary 27, 2024SPECTATOR

The announcement by Defence Minister Richard Marles to restructure Navy’s surface fleet — by integrating...

The West’s bid to expand NATO eastwards was a mistake
Tom SwitzerFebruary 24, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

For the people of Ukraine, the failure of Western nations to help them defeat Russia...

The government clearly doesn’t understand the consequences of its actions
Simon Cowan, Gene TunnyFebruary 24, 2024CANBERRA TIMES

Despite strenuous protests from the business community, it is hardly surprising that Workplace Relations Minister...

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