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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.

Requiem for a reformer
Peter SaundersApril 19, 2013

To London on Wednesday for the funeral. I was worried that with most of her...

Time to make a deal
Jennifer Buckingham OAMApril 19, 2013

The COAG meeting of education ministers today is a multibillion dollar game of Deal or...

Cure for a bloated public sector
Simon CowanApril 5, 2013The Canberra Times

Reckless government spending is imposing a burden on future generations. The plain fact is that...

Reforming the welfare state
Andrew BakerMarch 28, 2013

Australia’s federal, state and local governments spent $316 billion on the welfare state in 2010-11...

The phantom coup and poll-driven politics
Benjamin HerscovitchMarch 28, 2013

In the wake of last week’s putsch against Prime Minister Julia Gillard, there was much...

Right to silence
Suri RatnapalaMarch 28, 2013

The historical safeguard of fair criminal trials embodied in the right to silence no longer...

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)...
Beyond Romanticism: Questioning the Green Gospel
Samuel GreggNovember 30, 0001

Over the past forty years, environmentalism has emerged as one of the major political movements...

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