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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.

Democracy in Crisis
Michael JensenOctober 5, 1983OP8

Is there are conflict between unlimited political democracy and a Market economy? Michael C. Jensen...

Free to Shop
Geoff HogbinMay 18, 1983PM 4

Shopping hours and standards in Australia are far behind those of other countries. The trend...

The Constitutional Challenge
Michael James, G.S. Reid, D.J. Hamer, Anthony Rutherford, John Hyde, Campbell Sharman, James M. Buchanan, Philip Clark, Geoffrey de Quincey WalkerJuly 1, 1982R4

The Readings series of the Centre for Independent Studies was established to analyse certain issues...

Liberty, Justice and the Market
Lauchlan ChipmanSeptember 26, 1981OP6

Professor Chipman challenges some views which have become orthodox in academic and intellectual circles and...

Taxation, Inflation and the Role of the Government
Milton FriedmanJune 5, 1981OP4

Milton Friedman is one of the most authoritative and independent figures in the fields of...

On Buying a Job: The Regulation of a Taxicab in Canberra
Peter Swan AODecember 12, 1979PM1

Almost without exception, the licensing power is used to restrict the number of taxis to...

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)...
domestic violence
‘Anti-racism’ makes it impossible to speak up about Aborginal domestic violence
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 7, 2022SKY NEWS

Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly is not afraid to cause a stir by...

Indigenous Australia cannot be spoken for by a single Voice
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 6, 2022THE WEST AUSTRALIAN

No other Western constitution provides for an Indigenous “Voice”. Canada’s Constitution includes a simple statement...

Tax cuts
Why the government has to make the case for stage 3 tax cuts
Robert CarlingSeptember 5, 2022FINANCIAL REVIEW

The Morrison government’s stage 3 income tax cuts— still almost two years away from their...

Voice to parliament
Do we really need an Indigenous ‘voice’ to parliament?
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 4, 2022EPOCH TIMES

While Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his minister for Indigenous affairs frolic together with...

Student debt
There’s a lesson to be learnt in robbing Peter to pay Paul
Steven SchwartzSeptember 3, 2022THE AUSTRALIAN

A nanosecond after US President Joe Biden announced the partial cancellation of student loans, a...

truth telling
The next item on the ‘truth telling’ agenda will impose even more control
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOAugust 31, 2022SKY NEWS

What’s intended to come after the Voice is equally important in this referendum debate. The...

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