Become a Member Donate Now

• Other Research

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.

Childcare policy failing regional Australia
Eugenie JosephSeptember 23, 2018The Herald

Governments in Australia are trying to regulate childcare into an expensive, complex and gilt-edged early...

It’s official: Australia spends more than enough on schools
Blaise JosephSeptember 21, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The education debate at the next federal election is shaping up to be about the...

Grab bullying debate by horns of common sense
Peter KurtiSeptember 21, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Most panellists on last Monday’s Q&A were in vigorous agreement about the need to address...

An economic narrative for re-election
Simon CowanSeptember 15, 2018The Sydney Morning Herald

When he rolled Tony Abbott for the Prime Ministership, one reason Malcolm Turnbull gave was...

Au pair system works for parents
Eugenie JosephSeptember 14, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Au pairs represent one of the last bastions of unregulated childcare. It is therefore unsurprising...

Gender quotas won’t put Liberals back in touch with voters
Jeremy SammutSeptember 13, 2018The Daily Telegraph

AFTER three changes of prime minister in less than six years, some pundits now claim...

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...

menzies watershed, Robert Menzies, liberalism, politics
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...

helen dale 640x360
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)...
Risk of being burnt in the melting pot: There are costs to a society in taking in more asylum seekers
Helen HughesJanuary 4, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Asylum seekers have become, in parallel with terrorism and consequent on it, the first major...

The wasted decade: In the 90’s, America had unprecedented power, but did little with it. It must now rue its lost opportunity.
Owen HarriesDecember 18, 2001The Age

In the lead article of the current issue of the US journal Foreign Affairs, Fouad...

A generation drowns in boos: Repairing society’s attitude to rearing children would be revolutionary
Frank DevineDecember 13, 2001The Australian

Peter Saunders, Professor of sociology at the University of Sussex, said something dreadful at a...

The great drink-driving scandal: Police road blitzes are wasteful and an affront to our liberties
Peter SaundersDecember 13, 2001The Age

Over the last Labour Day weekend in NSW, 106,396 people were apprehended by the police...

Children pay the price of gender feminism war
Barry MaleyDecember 12, 2001The Sydney Morning Herald

For some radical feminists, males are patriarchal oppressors and the family is their torture chamber....

The damage done by the decline of marriage
Barry MaleyDecember 8, 2001The Age

In the past generation, Australian family life and marriage have undergone a revolution that has...

No Videos Available
No Submissions Available
No Podcasts Available

• Subscribe

Subscribe now and stay in the loop with our giving appeals, event alerts, newsletters and research updates.

We are always pleased to hear from you. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us here:

+61 2 9438 4377
CIS Office
cis@cis.org.au
CIS Media
kpincott@cis.org.au