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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.

Brace for Euro implosion – drop tax plans now
August 9, 2011CIS

As the world economy moves towards the abyss, the Gillard government must postpone the introduction...

Census Apartheid
Sara HudsonAugust 5, 2011

Tuesday, 9th August, is Census night. Across the country Australians will be filling in the...

Lindsay Tanner ‘Sideshow’: Q&A
July 22, 2011
Back to 1643? Bob Brown and the press freedom time machine
July 22, 2011

What agenda did Greens leader Bob Brown have for calling for greater media regulations? Surely,...

Lindsay Tanner talks about “Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy”
July 21, 2011
Crooked coppers, repulsive reporters … and hypocritical readers
Peter SaundersJuly 15, 2011

The News of the World, a Sunday tabloid with more than 7 million readers, has...

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)...
Education is another consumer choice
Greg LindsaySeptember 22, 2004The Australian Financial Review

Education is an issue in which everyone has a direct interest at some point in...

Land use rules erode freedom
Wolfgang KasperSeptember 16, 2004The West Australian

Environmental regulations threaten constitutional rights dating back to Magna Carta, Wolfgang Kasper argues. Unease over...

An election to be lost rather than to be won
Michael WarbySeptember 15, 2004The Newcastle Herald

The federal election campaign is on, so each side is attempting to outbid the other...

A new free-trade alliance
Wolfgang KasperSeptember 15, 2004The Australian Financial Review

In a recent Labour Day address, US President George Bush spoke of dismantling all trade...

Two cheers for Labor’s welfare reform
Peter SaundersSeptember 10, 2004The Australian

LET'S give a muffled cheer for Labor's family tax policy – or maybe even two,...

Only harsh medicine can save Nauru
Helen HughesAugust 31, 2004The Courier Mail

Nauru is an isolated 21 sq km Pacific island, more than 3,500 kms from Brisbane....

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