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2023 CIS Members Christmas Soirée
Peter Kurti, Tom SwitzerNovember 14, 2023
CIS invites you to celebrate the festive season with fellow CIS members!...
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With VAD, our fear of death has been perpetuated
Simon Cowan, Jessica BorbasiNovember 4, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

One of the most unfortunate aspects of the debate around Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) is...

Cures vs Consequences: How does Government navigate the science? – PERTH
Matt Ridley, Tom SwitzerOctober 17, 2023
Are the cures worse than the disease? Matt Ridley joins us in Perth to discuss...
Cures vs Consequences: How does Government navigate the science? – SYDNEY
Matt Ridley, Peter KurtiOctober 17, 2023
Are the cures worse than the disease? Matt Ridley joins us in Sydney to discuss...
Young voters are deserting the right with Matthew Taylor
Matthew TaylorOctober 17, 2023Liberalism in Question

There is growing evidence across the Anglosphere that Millennials and Generation Z are not showing...

John Howard OM AC: From the Pavilion Book Launch
John Howard OM AC, Andrew Blyth, Tom SwitzerAugust 18, 2023
On Tuesday, 18 July, we celebrated the launch of John Howard: From the Pavilion (Connor...
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)...
PM should think small
January 13, 2007The Weekend Australian

Around the English-speaking world, right-of-centre parties have replaced small-government liberalism with big-government conservatism. In the...

When an apple is not simply an apple
Phil RennieJanuary 12, 2007The Otago Times

If there’s one thing Australia is bad at, it’s losing. This applies to trade just...

Better medicine for all in single-source funding
Nick CoatsworthJanuary 10, 2007The Australian

So the Rudd-Gillard plan to reform federal-state relations in health is going into risky territory....

Palmed off and abused
Helen HughesJanuary 8, 2007The Courier Mail

The Mulrunji case did not start in the Palm Island police station. It is a...

Charting a course for legal disaster
Benjamin JellisJanuary 4, 2007The Australian

American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes once described law as the “calling of thinkers”. An unfortunate...

Wrapped in red tape and denied the flexibility to grow
John ClearyDecember 29, 2006The Australian

In the Northern Territory and Western Australia, policymakers and advisers are acknowledging what the residents...

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