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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.

Should governments choose their critics?
February 5, 2010

Andrew Norton is a Research Fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies. His CIS paper...

Rights charter would empower only lobbyists
Elise ParhamFebruary 4, 2010The Australian

Australia’s charter of rights story ended last year as a cliffhanger. The National Human Rights...

Charter of rights no protection for the vulnerable
Elise ParhamFebruary 2, 2010Open Forum

The peculiarly moral nature of human rights can make it difficult to analyse the way...

Behind the Moral Curtain: The Politics of a Charter of Rights
Elise ParhamFebruary 1, 2010PM106

In September 2009, the National Human Rights Consultation recommended that the federal government draft and...

Our enigmatic charter
Elise ParhamJanuary 29, 2010

Elise Parham is a Policy Analyst at the Centre for Independent Studies. Behind the Moral...

Research Shows More to a Federal Charter of Rights Than Meets the Eye
January 28, 2010

Australian evidence shows that a national charter of rights would hinder democracy, argues a new...

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)...
After the tsunami, a spectre of bird flu
Miranda DarlingApril 28, 2005The Canberra Times

The devastation caused by the earthquakes in Asia sets up an ominous foreground for the...

High price for a bruised ego
Sue WindybankApril 26, 2005The Australian Financial Review

For the second time in little more than a year the Papua New Guinean Prime...

Excessive bureaucracy stifles uni flexibility
April 18, 2005The Australian Financial Review

Brendan Nelson isn't pleased that, apparently, someone was admitted to a teaching course despite very...

How increased self reliance will result in a lower burden
Peter SaundersApril 8, 2005The Canberra Times

Tax and welfare reform are on the agenda. Given the government’s newly-won control of the...

Priced out of further education
Steven SchwartzApril 4, 2005The Age

Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson has urged Australians who want to maintain their standard of...

Leave uni governance in hands of the states
March 31, 2005The Newcastle Herald

With universities, the Commonwealth Government has itself an exceptional pay less, get more deal. While...

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