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Australians need to hear this.
Peter KurtiJune 21, 2024

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The forming of the Liberal Party Political Machine | Greg Craven, Zach Gorman, Georgina Downer
Tom Switzer, Greg Craven, Zachary Gorman, Ms Georgina DownerJune 5, 2024

Georgina Downer, Greg Craven, Zachary Gorman and Tom Switzer gathered at the CIS offices to...

Rules are clear: park your opinions or leave Aunty
Tom SwitzerJune 1, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

There is a serious problem at our public broadcaster. As the fracas over Laura Tingle’s...

The Greater Middle East: Part 2 with Bret Stephens – Sydney
Bret StephensMay 2, 2024
Join us on June 18 as we host Bret Stephens and Tom Switzer for an...
The Art of Opposition
Scott Prasser, John Howard OM AC, Andrew Blyth, Tom SwitzerMay 1, 2024
CIS welcomes John Howard as we celebrate the launch "The Art of Opposition" co-edited by...
Australia: The Road Ahead
John Anderson, Janet Albrechtsen, Brendan O'Neill, Jennifer Anju Grossman, Scott Hargreaves, Professor Stephen Wilson, Gemma Tognini, Gary Banks, Bella D’Abrera, Simon Haines, Russell Delroy, Tony Seabrook, Steve Whybrow SC, Brianna McKee, Freya Leach, Ron Manners AOApril 2, 2024
CIS proudly supports The Road Ahead Conference...
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)...
Welfare fails to save the world
Deepak LalDecember 4, 2006The Australian

The humanitarian case for aid has been based on an analogy with the Western welfare...

Stop excuses on indigenous education
Kirsten StorryDecember 1, 2006The Adelaide Advertiser

Last month, Treasury secretary Ken Henry said Australia would not have managed its current prosperity...

Overhaul might need an overhaul
Arti SharmaNovember 28, 2006The Geelong Advertiser

Last weekend, the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne was home to a National Forum on...

What the Government giveth, the Government taketh away
Peter SaundersNovember 27, 2006ABC Radio

The welfare state developed to support people who could not afford to look after themselves:...

Tonga needs democracy, not aid
Gaurav SodhiNovember 21, 2006The Australian

Mayhem has tragically overtaken the ‘happy isles’. Years of exploitation by the monarchy and nobility...

Fiscal federalism robs states of self-reliance
Robert CarlingNovember 21, 2006The Newcastle Herald

Commonwealth-state relations have recently focused on policy coordination under a National Reform Agenda in pursuit...

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