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Maintaining JobKeeper beyond the health crisis would be a serious mistake
Simon CowanMay 23, 2020Canberra Times

The government is wrong if it thought the pressure might die down a little bit...

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Urgent case for reform
Tom SwitzerMay 21, 2020IDEAS@THECENTRE

For more than two months, federal and state governments have shut down much of Australia’s...

From Pandemic to Prosperity
Tom SwitzerMay 18, 2020

The fact is that, unless the intellectual case for market reforms and free trade is...

PM is a serious man for serious times
Tom SwitzerMay 17, 2020Australian Financial Review

Exactly a year after his surprise election victory, Scott Morrison enjoys overwhelming popular support. By...

Capitalism is not finished – and we’ll need it to escape this abyss
Tom SwitzerMay 3, 2020Sydney Morning Herald

Since federation, the economic governance of Australia can be conveniently divided into three contrasting periods....

What reform consensus?
Simon CowanApril 30, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

Even though Covid-19 has briefly unified both major parties, and State and Federal government, the...

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)...
Speaking with spirits: Papua New Guinea’s logging free-for-all
Helen HughesApril 26, 2006The Canberra Times

In May 2005 Papua New Guinea refused a $23 million World Bank loan designed to...

Skills better investment for indigenous
Kirsten StorryApril 25, 2006The Courier Mail

In remote indigenous communities, there is little local economic development or mainstream employment. Those employment...

Treasurer has us on longer leash
Peter SaundersApril 25, 2006The Australian

Tax freedom day this year is April 25. This means it is a holiday for...

Showcasing Unis when price is right
April 24, 2006The Age

Many critics of universities complain that commerce is put ahead of education. To them, generalist...

This mission had moral hazard written all over it
Sue WindybankApril 20, 2006The Australian

Rioting and looting have returned to Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands, nearly three years...

Hard won is easily lost
April PalmerleeApril 18, 2006The Courier Mail

From Beirut to Baghdad , the streets are overflowing with calls for freedom and liberty,...

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