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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.

Not Looking for Work: The Rise of Non-Jobseekers on Unemployment Benefits
Andrew BakerJuly 31, 2013PM136

Following the global financial crisis, the incumbent Labor government introduced policies that reduced the job...

Playing the moral high ground on asylum seekers
Peter KurtiJuly 26, 2013

'Mr Prime Minister, Jesus weeps,' tweeted the disappointed Anglican bishop of Tasmania when the PNG...

The cancer of government advertising strikes back
Andrew BakerJuly 26, 2013

According to our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, government advertising is a 'cancer on democracy,' but...

Productivity is more than industrial relations
Simon CowanJuly 26, 2013

It's not often that I agree with a unionist, especially one like ACTU Secretary Dave...

Infrastructure, not entitlement, needed to boost productivity
Greg LindsayJuly 25, 2013The Australian Financial Review

Australia has a productivity problem. In the past decade, multi-factor productivity has declined by 5...

Jeremy Sammut on Lateline, 9 July 2013 – Foster Care Crisis
July 22, 2013
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)...
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...

Morality and Foreign Policy
Owen HarriesDecember 7, 2001ABC Radio

Recent events have generated a great deal of discussion about morality and foreign policy. It...

Tried and true way to economic growth
Wolfgang KasperDecember 6, 2001The Australian Financial Review

The Heritage Foundation in Washington has just published its economic freedom ratings for 2002, with...

A clumsy hand is no help: Governments are no good at social policy
Peter SaundersDecember 6, 2001The Australian

US founding father and third president Thomas Jefferson was right after all: “The government that...

Uni student quota system is unfair and inefficient
December 5, 2001The West Australian

Although the unlucky ones don’t yet know who they are, more young Western Australians than...

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