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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.

‘Reasonable person’ test of virus response
Salvatore BabonesJune 4, 2020Ideas@theCentre

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

It’s not just Canberra. The states face a corona budget belting too
Robert CarlingJune 3, 2020Spectator

The coronavirus pandemic has drawn state government policies into the response to a national crisis...

The 12-Week Window: Coronavirus crisis Australia didn’t have to have
Salvatore BabonesJune 2, 2020AP9

The coronavirus crisis was ‘the crisis that Australia didn’t have to have’. This paper lays...

The new National Cabinet: great for big government, not so good for liberty
Scott PrasserJune 2, 2020Spectator

Last week Prime Minister announced “a completely new system” of intergovernmental relations institutions, processes and...

Vindicated: John Mearsheimer saw today’s bellicose China coming
Tom SwitzerMay 29, 2020The Australian

Rarely in history has an academic been as intellectually vindicated as John Mearsheimer. Two decades...

The book you need if you want to understand China right now
Tom SwitzerMay 29, 2020Financial Review

The deterioration in relations between China and the US is a dangerous development. The friction...

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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