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At times, issues of international or national importance do not fit under the Economics, Education, Indigenous and Foreign Affairs programs. The publications and commentary related to non-program issues can be found here, as well as work from past programs such as Health and Aging.

Thatcher, Reagan still point the way to a brighter future
Tom SwitzerJuly 27, 2020Financial Review

Josh Frydenberg and I have a lot in common.We were born in the same year...

Thatcherism’s divisiveness lives on in bruised memory
Tom SwitzerJuly 27, 2020Sydney Morning Herald

To hear our Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, spell out his admiration for Margaret Thatcher and her...

Conspiracy theories on Palace letters miss the mark
Simon CowanJuly 18, 2020Canberra Times

Conspiracy theories! Every now and then you get caught thinking only gullible Americans, or the...

On Liberty EP14 Trying times, federal politics in an age of political outrage
Salvatore Babones, Scott PrasserJuly 2, 2020On Liberty

Earlier in 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was under fire for his handling of the...

NSW After the Pandemic
Gladys Berejiklian, Tom SwitzerJuly 1, 2020

In the battle of ideas, the Centre for Independent Studies is like a munitions factory,...

Tow protectionism to the scrapyard
Simon CowanJune 25, 2020Ideas@theCentre

It’s hard to imagine anyone thought the sight of Bob Katter dressed as the Grim...

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)...
When is a welfare payment not a welfare payment?
Peter SaundersApril 13, 2006The Australian Financial Review

Everyone who earns more than $6,000 per year pays income tax. The zero-rate or ‘tax-free’...

System break-up
Arti SharmaApril 12, 2006The Courier Mail

The Squid and the Whale, a new independent film, shows the nightmare that divorce can...

Vanutatu’s failures propped up again
Gaurav SodhiApril 7, 2006The Dominion Post

Vanuatu is no stranger to aid. Since independence in 1980 the Pacific island country has...

Councils must have real clout
Wolfgang KasperApril 4, 2006The Australian Financial Review

Amid all the talk of tax cuts, Australians should gird themselves for hefty hikes in...

Scrap child-care concessions – cut taxes instead
Peter SaundersMarch 15, 2006The Age

The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that it is no longer normal for mothers to...

Our beneficiary nation
Phil RennieMarch 15, 2006The Dominion Post

Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable at the latest Working for Families ad...

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