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Instead of squabbling over tax cuts, let’s talk about real reform
Simon CowanJuly 2, 2019The Spectator

The left’s calls for the Coalition to abandon its tax cut agenda and open the...

G-20: Donald Trump Just Saved Huawei (But the Trade War Isn’t Over)
Salvatore BabonesJune 29, 2019The National Interest

“The trade war is doing permanent damage to the Chinese economy every month since once...

Tax cut fight shows we’re back to the same old Labor
Simon CowanJune 22, 2019The Canberra Times

No sooner were the left’s tears dry after the election loss, than they were out...

Suburbs send a signal to corporate elites
Jeremy SammutJune 21, 2019The Australian

The quiet Australians’ rejection of Labor’s “progressive” agenda has exposed the cultural divide between inner-city...

A memo to the Morrison Government: we need more democracy, not less
Jeremy SammutJune 5, 2019SPECTATOR: FLAT WHITE

Public policy is a field where you soon learn that no matter the soundness of...

ScoMo is not The Donald
Simon CowanMay 31, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

As the shock of the election result recedes, more comparisons are being made between Morrison’s...

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)...
Let’s fix foreign aid fiasco
Wolfgang KasperJanuary 19, 2006The Australian

Corruption was long accepted simply as fate. In the West, people began to fight the...

The wrongs of pushing a bill of rights
Alan AndersonJanuary 4, 2006The Age

The Bracks Government’s plan for a Victorian bill of rights is the latest step in...

Finding ways to tame the new giant
Robyn LimJanuary 3, 2006The Australian Financial Review

The main element driving security development in North Asia is the rapid pace of China...

Future funds for everyone
Peter SaundersJanuary 2, 2006The Australian

Last month Treasurer Peter Costello forecast another huge budget surplus for this year. Yet again,...

If there is prejudice, there is also tolerance
December 22, 2005The Australian

Has a riot revealed a racist nation? A poll published this week showed that three-quarters...

Fee hikes fit in with Libs’ ideal
December 14, 2005The Australian

Last Friday's surprise passing of the voluntary student unionism legislation means that for at least...

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