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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.

Is ignorance spurring a slide to socialism?
Eugenie JosephMay 2, 2018The Spectator Australia

The global Ipsos poll released today and published by Fairfax Media, entitled Attitudes towards Socialist...

Turnbull’s sound advice for Europe on immigration
Tom SwitzerApril 30, 2018The Sydney Morning Herald

In recent years, nativist and populist insurgencies have threatened political establishments and public-policy discourse. Remarkable...

Market dominance might be good for consumers
Charles JacobsApril 27, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The phrases monopoly, duopoly and oligopoly typically rouse fear in the hearts of the public....

Australia’s Energy Debate
Audrey ZibelmanApril 24, 2018

Ms Zibelman leads AEMO, the independent gas and electricity system and market operator in Australia,...

Voters keeping our democracy alive
Charles JacobsApril 6, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Our two-party system is broken, Australian democracy is in a ‘parlous state’, and the populists...

Regulating the sharing economy will kill the jobs it brings
Matthew O’Donnell, Eugenie JosephMarch 21, 2018Australian Financial Review

Whatever good intentions ACTU secretary Sally McManus may have, her call for the federal government...

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)...
Welfare shake-up is long overdue
Peter SaundersFebruary 24, 2005The Australian

Forty years ago, fewer than one in 30 working-age adults relied on welfare payments as...

Iraq adventure is rich in dangerous precedents
Owen HarriesFebruary 21, 2005The Sydney Morning Herald

To a remarkable degree, the debate over Iraq has been conducted in moral terms. President...

Raising tax threshold will restore incentives
February 21, 2005The Australian Financial Review

Parents choose private schools for many reasons, but among them is the belief that more...

A great among greats
Wolfgang KasperFebruary 11, 2005The Australian Financial Review

The long-dead philosophers who spelt out those values and concepts on which Western civilisation now...

We must cut taxes for rich and poor
Peter SaundersFebruary 8, 2005The Australian

After eight years of Liberal government, federal taxation is more onerous than ever. Last year...

The conscience of liberalism
Greg MelleuishFebruary 4, 2005The Australian Financial Review

Arthur Bruce Smith was in many ways an extraordinary man. He was a major political...

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