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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...

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...

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...

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 Missing in the Young Country
Barry MaleyJanuary 9, 2001The Courier Mail

To keep the level of Australia’s population steady, without immigration, an average of 2.1 births...

Commercialising highways
Robert W. PooleNovember 20, 2000

Most people consider the modern auto-highway system a great success. In the United States, automobiles...

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...

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