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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.

Population Growth: Curse or Blessing?
Peter T. BauerMay 7, 1990OP28

Population growth is widely regarded as self-evidently a cause of poverty and backwardness in Third...

Welfare State or Constitutional State?
Suri RatnapalaMay 3, 1990PM15

In this contribution to the CIS Social Welfare Research Program, Suri Ratnapala, Lecturer in Law...

Are We Winning?
Antonio MartinoMay 1, 1990OP29

Although classical liberal ideas are at present in the ascendancy, there is no guarantee that...

The Third World Debt Crisis: Can’t Pay or Won’t Pay?
Peter T. BauerMarch 13, 1990OP31

In this Occasional Paper, Lord Bauer questions the widely held belief that debt service is...

The Ethics of Economic Freedom
Herbert GierschMarch 3, 1989OP24

An economic order is always based on a certian set of moral principles. This applies...

The Crisis in Law
Norman BarryJanuary 6, 1989OP23

In this Occasional Paper, Professor Norman Barry argues that the current crisis in the law...

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)...
Only deregulation can create jobs
Kayoko TsumoriOctober 21, 2002The Australian Financial Review

The unemployment rate in August 2002 stood at 6.2%—a high figure considering continuing economic growth....

A civil tongue is still crucial in politics
Peter SaundersOctober 10, 2002The Canberra Times

Civility has been making the news over the last few weeks. This is heartening, for...

Can’t beat the market so just plunge in, fees first
October 9, 2002The Australian

Some years ago I had a left-wing acquaintance whose stock response to all my market-based...

Sure, we’ll breed (if we can afford it)
Jennifer Buckingham OAMSeptember 24, 2002The Age

More women would put careers on hold to stay at home with their child if...

Dysfunction runs in the family
Barry MaleySeptember 17, 2002The Courier Mail

The preoccupation with paid maternity leave and our falling fertility rate is shifting attention away...

Will higher funding really deliver higher education?
September 3, 2002The Age

A curious feature of the current higher education debate is that very little of it...

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