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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.

PM must rouse indolent nation
Tom SwitzerDecember 9, 2019Australian Financial Review

After another year of political high drama, there are massive anxieties about the state of...

Is there more to life than politics?
John Howard OM AC, Tom Switzer, Richard AlstonDecember 5, 2019

Richard Alston’s new book, More to Life than Politics (Connor Court). Alston, a renowned former...

Ten Remarkable Australians
Tom Switzer, Ian MacfarlaneNovember 14, 2019

In his book, Ten Remarkable Australians, Ian Macfarlane pens biographical essays about ten Australians, who...

Beware unintended consequences, Prime Minister
Tom SwitzerNovember 9, 2019SMH

An important rule of politics is the law of unintended consequences. Implement hasty and radical...

Labor should embrace meritocracy ahead of the next election
Simon CowanOctober 14, 2019The Canberra Times

“The idea that successful people deserve the economic rewards flowing from that success is a...

Australia, the great liberal project
Jeremy SammutSeptember 24, 2019Spectator

The great Australian historian John Hirst once told of a visiting American academic who commented...

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)...
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Robodebt royal commission highlighted flawed processes
Simon CowanMarch 11, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

If you haven’t been playing close attention, you might have missed the disturbing findings coming...

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Chalmers’ purpose for superannuation is to unite it to Labor’s worldview
Simon CowanFebruary 25, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

The super wars are back! Well … strictly speaking, they never left us. But after...

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Control of information the name of the game for ‘yes’ Voice campaign
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOFebruary 17, 2023Sky

The Voice campaign depends on accurate and unbiased information being given to the public. The...

Why we need to track intergenerational school performance
Matthew TaylorFebruary 16, 2023THE CONVERSATION

The notion of the ‘fair go’ is meant to be central to Australia’s national ethos....

Media shouldn’t be asked to gaslight Voice opponents
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOFebruary 16, 2023AFR

In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, Voice campaigner Megan Davis warned that, in...

NAPLAN sets bar too low to spot students at risk of failing
Glenn FaheyFebruary 14, 2023AFR

Just as tinkering with a barometer doesn’t actually change the weather, updating NAPLAN test benchmarks...

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