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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.

Working Towards Self-Reliance: Three Lessons for Disability Pension Reform
October 5, 2011PM124

To successful reduce the number of pensioners on disability support, policymakers must apply the lessons...

Should poker machine gambling be restricted?
October 1, 2011Sydney Morning Herald

"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I...

Bolt tongue tied
Adam CreightonSeptember 30, 2011

Sometimes it takes an injustice to beget justice. So it may be with Andrew Bolt’s...

Unions vs Representation
September 30, 2011

Growing up in New Zealand, where the labour market was deregulated (in 1991) when I...

Does gay marriage prove marriage matters?
Peter KurtiSeptember 29, 2011Online Opinion

Just over a century ago, the Anglo-French writer, Hilaire Belloc, declared himself "opposed to women...

Patently absurd
Oliver Marc HartwichSeptember 23, 2011

Because I usually like to side with the underdog (even if the underdog is Microsoft),...

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)...
HECS not putting hex on parenthood
April 4, 2003The Newcastle Herald

Topical issues give new impetus to old agendas, and opponents of university fees are using...

We need more police and to use them better
Nicole BillanteMarch 25, 2003The Canberra Times

Across Australia the number of police per 10,000 people has risen by about 37 per...

NZ school zoning: fairness or fraud?
Jennifer Buckingham OAMMarch 20, 2003The Independant

Good state schools in both New Zealand and Australia are facing a large and growing...

Dismissal Law Benefits the Long-term Unemployed
Kayoko TsumoriMarch 18, 2003The Australian Financial Review

Employment prospects for the long-term unemployed remain bleak, as the Senate is expected to reject...

Expect fallout here as our neighbour falls apart
March 12, 2003The Australian

With the impending war on Iraq and growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula understandably dominating...

A glimmer of hope on the mean streets
Nicole BillanteMarch 6, 2003The Australian

Statistics coming out of NSW this week suggest that the 40-year trend of rising crime...

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