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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.

Petrol prices pump up interventionist calls
Charles JacobsNovember 2, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

One by one, Australia’s markets are falling victim to the hand of an interventionist government....

There are dangers in reading too much into a big swing in Wentworth
Tom SwitzerOctober 20, 2018The Sydney Morning Herald

Byelections have often been bad news for governments. That is why they have learned to...

Does inequality matter?
Simon CowanOctober 5, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

This week we hosted an interesting discussion on inequality (see video). CIS Senior Fellow Robert...

Partisan infection is spreading to Australia
Simon CowanSeptember 29, 2018The Sydney Morning Herald

There are lessons for Australia in the extraordinary scenes surrounding the confirmation hearing of US...

Time to cool it
Robert ForsythSeptember 28, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

It’s time to cool off the rising heat about religious freedom. It has been four...

Budget (almost) balanced; now for the vote buying
Robert CarlingSeptember 25, 2018The Spectator

One of the rituals of the federal Budget cycle is the release of a final...

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)...
Policies entrench poverty
Helen HughesSeptember 23, 2005The Australian

More than 200,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have become integrated into mainstream Australian life,...

System not in the finest health
Peter SaundersSeptember 22, 2005The Australian Financial Review

As the welfare-to-work proposals are made public, Peter Saunders looks at the question of self-funding....

Tax cuts key to sustained economic growth
Christopher LingleSeptember 19, 2005The Japan Times

Political officials around the world, even in European welfare states, have discovered that offering tax...

The parochialism of the present
Owen HarriesSeptember 16, 2005The Australian Financial Review

In that brief and poignant interlude between the collapse of the Soviet empire and the...

Teaching for profit will attract and retain talent
Ross FarrellySeptember 8, 2005The Age

The feel-good 2002 French movie Etre et Avoir ( To Be and To Have) portrayed...

A neat strategy to save uni student services
September 4, 2005The Canberra Times

A round the country, student associations and universities are fighting hard against the Federal Government's...

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