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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.

The two great threats of 2020: coronavirus – and Keynes
Tony MakinJune 24, 2020Spectator

The fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic leaves an economically threatening legacy of high budget...

History may be kinder to Julia Gillard
Tom SwitzerJune 23, 2020Financial Review

Tuesday marks a notable date in Australian political history – the 10th anniversary of the...

Censoring history makes the past impossible to grasp
Tom Switzer, Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJune 15, 2020Sydney Morning Herald

Much of history is a story of unintended consequences. What began as a protest at...

The coronavirus crisis we never needed to have
Salvatore BabonesJune 8, 2020Spectator

We can’t blame our leaders for being caught off-guard by the coronavirus; we all were....

Nothing new under the sun in Morrison’s new federalism
Scott PrasserJune 8, 2020Canberra Times

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced “a completely new system” of intergovernmental relations institutions, processes...

HomeBuilder package is aimed at generating political gains, not economic ones
Simon CowanJune 6, 2020Canberra Times

While we must wait for formal confirmation, it is now clear that Australia will experience...

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)...
Consumers, not government, conduct the Australian economy
Simon CowanFebruary 11, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

In recent weeks, as debate has raged over Treasurer Jim Chalmers Monthly essay on capitalism...

Wong’s gruel of postcolonial guilt
Peter KurtiFebruary 9, 2023SPECTATOR

No country has a spotless past. Countries such as Great Britain, that disengaged from their...

Focus needs to be on more high quality teaching
Glenn FaheyFebruary 6, 2023DAILY TELEGRAPH

All too predictably, the NSW state election could become the latest education bidding war —...

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Indigenous Voice to Parliament vote at risk due to bad faith
Simon CowanJanuary 28, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

For a project supposedly based in a call for goodwill and respect, the Indigenous Voice...

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Annoy the Woke Left, Celebrate Australia Day
Tom SwitzerJanuary 25, 2023WALL STREET JOURNAL

Americans are familiar with the woke left: noisy activists who feel the need to rewrite...

Australian schools are failing
Why Australian schools are failing
Glenn FaheyJanuary 23, 2023FINANCIAL REVIEW

A new Productivity Commission report confirms what’s long been known: Australian schools are failing on...

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