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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.

Don’t write off liberalism
Tom SwitzerApril 13, 2023SPECTATOR

These are dark days for the Liberal Party. Labor governments now dominate the Australian continent...

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Annual Gala Dinner and Lecture 2023
Jason RileyApril 13, 2023
CIS is honoured to announce that our Annual Gala Dinner and Lecture will be held...
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Andrew Neil, Tom SwitzerMarch 17, 2023
CIS welcome Andrew Neil for a conversation about political and public-policy across the UK and...
John Howard: A Sense of Balance – Melbourne
John Howard OM AC, Tom SwitzerFebruary 24, 2023
CIS welcomes former PM John Howard to Melbourne to address his book A Sense of...
John Howard: A Sense of Balance – Brisbane
John Howard OM AC, Tom SwitzerFebruary 24, 2023
CIS welcomes former PM John Howard to Brisbane to address his book A Sense of...
Wong’s gruel of postcolonial guilt
Peter KurtiFebruary 9, 2023SPECTATOR

No country has a spotless past. Countries such as Great Britain, that disengaged from their...

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)...
Democracy’s Dark Shadow
George WeigelOctober 24, 2000The Australian Financial Review

The collapse of communist regimes in east central Europe in the revolution of 1989, followed...

Why Think-Tanks Are Here to Stay
Greg LindsayOctober 20, 2000The Age

Pamela Bone's backhanded compliment to the success of The Centre for Independent Studies and the...

Spending More on Healthcare is Good For You
Steven SchwartzOctober 19, 2000The Australian

Australian healthcare spending has increased in real terms every year since Medicare was introduced. Rationing,...

Homework Needed on School Funding
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 13, 2000The Newcastle Herald

The fracas over federal government school funding documented by the media in the past few...

Trading Phobias: Governments, NGOs and Globalisation
Anne KruegerOctober 11, 2000The Australian Financial Review

  Almost any dispassionate analysis of the evolution of the world economy will find that...

Staying in the Dark on School Performance
Alison RichOctober 5, 2000The Sydney Morning Herald

There is a movement in Australian education for increased assessment and accountability. Assessment and reporting...

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