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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...
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)...
The renewables honeymoon is over
Zoe HiltonOctober 9, 2025Energynewsbulletin

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has once again claimed “renewables are the cheapest form of energy”...

Why the renewables romance could be headed for divorce
Michael StutchburyOctober 7, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN
It was always going to be a massive task to decarbonise Australia’s fossil fuel intensive...
Pump the brakes, Hastie. Let me explain how wrong you’ve gotten it
Simon CowanOctober 3, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
In reality, it was taxpayers and consumers who were being held hostage: by government who...
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Energy targets need a pinch of reality dust
Aidan MorrisonSeptember 25, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN
When Peter Pan pointed through the nursery window and said “second star to the right...
Keep raiding our super and you’ll only create a smaller, meaner country
Simon CowanSeptember 20, 2025CANBERRA TIMES
Rumours are swirling that the government may reconsider its superannuation tax changes that will hit...
Australia’s housing push is bipartisan
Peter TulipSeptember 17, 2025SPECTATOR FLAT WHITE
The Liberal party has two traditions, conservatism and support for free markets. Normally, those movements...
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