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Reflecting Back: John Howard and Alexander Downer on Power, Alliances and Australia
John Howard OM AC, Tony Parkinson, Alexander Downer, Michael StutchburyFebruary 5, 2026
Drawing on their experience during the Howard government, Alexander Downer and former Prime Minister John...
NEXT50 Series: Strengthening Australia with Angus Taylor
Angus Taylor, Michael StutchburyJanuary 16, 2026
Join us on Monday, 16 February at CIS for a lunch forum with Angus Taylor...
Alexander Downer: Leadership Between Allies and the Region
Alexander Downer, Michael Stutchbury, Tony ParkinsonDecember 12, 2025
Join us for the book launch of A Step to the Right: The Life and...
2025 CIS Members Christmas Soireé
October 29, 2025
CIS invites you to celebrate the festive season with fellow CIS members!...
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...
Without Fear or Favour: Practising your Faith and your Profession
Debra MullinsJune 20, 2018OP165

The adequacy of religious freedom protections in Australia has been now reviewed by the Ruddock...

What the Gonski 2 Review got wrong
Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Blaise JosephJune 17, 2018PP6

The Gonski 2 Review into Australian schools failed to fulfill its terms of reference to...

Defending the Dual Citizen Ban
Simon CowanMay 31, 2018PP3

The High Court has rightfully resisted calls to read subjective elements into section 44(i) in...

Red tape and Australia’s economic malaise
Michael PotterFebruary 7, 2018OP164

Australia is in a period of economic malaise. GDP per person has been growing slowly...

The History Wars Matter
Jeremy SammutNovember 8, 2017OP159

Despite what the post-modern theorists claim, the nation remains the ultimate political reality. The power...

UBI – Universal Basic Income is an Unbelievably Bad Idea
Simon CowanNovember 5, 2017RR32

The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), paid by the government to its citizens...

It’s always a case of another year, another excuse for not slashing Australia’s tax burden
Alex RobsonSeptember 5, 2007The Canberra Times

There is a famous gag in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip in which the very...

Poor way to detect poverty
Peter SaundersSeptember 5, 2007The Australian Finanacial Review

Someone at the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) is forgetting their Aesop. You will...

Extend a hand to an absent friend
Helen HughesSeptember 4, 2007The Australian

Although Sydney loves a party and gave world winners for the 2000 Olympics and the...

Health policy fails to target problem
Jeremy SammutSeptember 3, 2007The Canberra Times

The sound and fury accompanying Kevin Rudd's hospital reform plan means you might have missed...

Elections should be a way of holding political leaders to account for their actions
Gaurav SodhiAugust 29, 2007The Canberrra Times

It is a measure of the dysfunction of Papua New Guinea that elections marred by...

We are evolving into an over-regulated, over-governed, dumbed-down place
Peter SaundersAugust 24, 2007The Sydney Morning Herald

Here we go again. This time it's the Wesley Mission telling us we are all...

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