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Perk Street is not as one-way as employed, childless renters think
Adam CreightonJuly 1, 2011The Sydney Morning Herald

If you are working, renting and childless, you might feel Australian democracy neglects you. For...

Principled politics and populist plebiscites
Jeremy SammutJune 24, 2011

The Leader of the Opposition’s proposed carbon tax plebiscite has been widely disparaged as a...

A Key visit for New Zealand
Luke MalpassJune 24, 2011

It was disappointing that Prime Minister John Key’s visit to Australia was dominated by breathless...

Campaign finance reform restricts liberal democracy
June 3, 2011

My CIS paper Democracy and Money, released yesterday, describes the many ways in which private...

Talk is cheap, everything else is not
Oliver Marc HartwichJune 3, 2011

It was in a busy shopping street in the city centre of Lübeck where I...

Campaign xenophobia driven by foreign donations ban
June 3, 2011Crikey

In introducing Labor’s third attempt to ban foreign-sourced donations, Special Minister of State Gary Gray...

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)...
Yes has raised some of the best reasons to vote No
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOJuly 21, 2023THE AUSTRALIAN

Official Yes and No campaign pamphlets for the referendum have been released. Yes campaigners are...

Harvard University affirmative action reveals flaw in zero-sum equality push
Simon CowanJuly 15, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

In a heavily anticipated decision, the United States Supreme Court recently ruled that two major...

Education overhaul for teachers a long time coming
Glenn FaheyJuly 11, 2023THE AUSTRALIAN

The proposed overhaul to teacher training will mean better prepared teachers and a greater expectation...

Facts of life are conservative, but younger voters are lurching left
Tom SwitzerJuly 6, 2023AFR

Margaret Thatcher said the facts of life are Conservative. Even Labor icons Bob Hawke and...

The Coalition can create generational voting change by tackling housing affordability
Simon CowanJuly 3, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

Australia’s centre-right political movement is in trouble. This may have seemed obvious from the fact...

Meritocracy
A great court victory for meritocracy
Steven SchwartzJune 30, 2023AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

The United States Supreme Court’s meritocracy verdict in favour of Students for Fair Admissions has...

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