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Welfare reform beyond decades of dependence, ‘dole bludgers’ and ‘double dipping’
Simon CowanMay 31, 2017OP156

Recent attempts to reform welfare have focused on the wrong elements of the system. In...

Submission to IPART Review of Social and Affordable Housing Rent Models
Michael PotterMay 15, 2017CIS Submission

In April, IPART released a draft report into models for setting social and affordable housing...

Reforming Social Housing: financing and tenant autonomy
Michael PotterApril 27, 2017RR25

Around 400,000 Australians live in social housing, which includes public and community housing. This sector...

Trump Voters and Greyhound Bans: Meet the Real ‘Deplorables’ of the US and OZ
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOMarch 28, 2017

Most explanations offered for Donald Trump’s ‘inexplicable’ victory in the American Presidential election have resorted...

Captured Courts and Tribunals: A Threat to Democracy
Graeme WatsonMarch 22, 2017

The independence of the Fair Work Commission has suffered multiple assaults and been grossly compromised,...

Trump Voters and Greyhound Bans: Meet the Real ‘Deplorables’ of the US and OZ
March 16, 2017
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)...
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....

Lies & Statistics
Peter SaundersAugust 28, 2004The Australian Financial Review

A report from the Australian Council of Social Service claims the problem of welfare dependency...

Time to take the politicking out of pricing
August 23, 2004The Australian Financial Review

The ALP’s fiery attacks on Dr Nelson’s higher education reforms hide how similar their policies...

Sick phosphate island in need of a remedy
Helen HughesAugust 20, 2004The Courier Mail

Nauru is a 21 sq kms island near the equator, more than 3,000 kms from...

A workable way out of the welfare trap
Lawrence MeadAugust 18, 2004The Australian

IN the past decade, the US reduced its welfare rolls by more than 60 per...

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