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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)...
Here is the truth about tax havens
Sinclair DavidsonOctober 16, 2007The Age

It is now bipartisan policy to turn Australia into a funds management tax haven. Kevin...

Teacher pay and performance
Kirsten StorryOctober 15, 2007The New Matilda

Ten years ago, the front page of a Sydney tabloid identified Mount Druitt High Year...

Charting a new course through schools red tape
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 15, 2007The Age

The state school system in Victoria has gone further towards empowering individual schools and enabling...

Life after kava needs education, real jobs
Helen HughesOctober 14, 2007The Sunday Territorian

As part of the Northern Territory ‘emergency intervention’, the Australian Government announced a ban on...

Will the China boom last? – don’t bet your house on it
John LeeOctober 10, 2007The West Australian

Ask anyone in Western Australia whether China presents an economic risk or opportunity and there...

Tax cuts can help fight inflation
Stephen KirchnerOctober 10, 2007The Australian Financial Review

Unlike previous elections, this year’s federal campaign is likely to see only cautious spending and...

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