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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.

Australia’s Export Exposure to China’s Coronavirus Epidemic
Salvatore BabonesFebruary 18, 2020AP7

This paper estimates the direct and immediate effects of the coronavirus epidemic on the revenues...

Time to Drop Defense Guarantees to the Philippines
Doug BandowFebruary 16, 2020Spectator

Rodrigo Duterte, the ever-unpredictable president of the Philippines, has given official notice to terminate the...

Jacinta Price and Scott Morrison
Closing the gap requires us to reject separatism
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Simon CowanFebruary 15, 2020Canberra Times

This week the Prime Minister delivered the latest (not) Closing the Gapreport, which again shows...

The Skeptical Environmentalist
Bjorn LomborgFebruary 14, 2020

The world’s governments have picked 169 well-meaning targets, promising everything to everyone. But too many...

Is there a Democrat who can defeat The Donald?
Doug BandowFebruary 13, 2020Spectator

After an embarrassing Iowa caucus, the smoother New Hampshire primary did more to determine who...

How Reagan Won the Presidency in New Hampshire
Doug BandowFebruary 11, 2020Spectator

Despite a lackluster record, as 1980 dawned President Jimmy Carter led a baker’s dozen of...

Traditions of Liberalism: Essays on John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill
Lauchlan Chipman, Knud Haakonssen, Shirley Robin Letwin, John Gray, C. L. Ten, Kenneth Minogue, Alan Ryan, William Letwin, Donald Winch, Philip PettitSeptember 1, 1988R8

Traditions of Liberalism: Essays on John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill – Foreword...

Fiji – Opportunity from adversity
Wolfgang Kasper, Jeff Bennett, Richard BlandyMarch 26, 1988Pacific Papers 1

Many in Australia will share the concern of the authors or this monograph over current...

Ideas, Interests and Experience: Some Implications for Policy Advice
Roger KerrMarch 3, 1988OP19

Economists are increasingly called upon by bureaucrats and government official for policy advice. But economists...

Law and Liberty
Shirley Robin LetwinDecember 7, 1987OP17

In the Fourth John Bonython Lecture, Shirley Letwin analyses the way in which the rule...

How Much Government
Michael JamesAugust 16, 1986PM11

Why does government continue to grow despite the declared wishes of politicians of all parties?

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The Enemies of Progress
Ralph HarrisJuly 4, 1986OP16

Why is it that politicians of all parties still shrink from giving enterprise, competition and...

The mental health system may be making us sicker
Steven SchwartzApril 6, 2026CANBERRA TIMES

Australia has a mental health crisis, but not the one we think. Despite decades of...

Housing negative gearing tax
Reducing the discount would likely not have any lasting impact in lowering house prices
Robert Carling, Michael StutchburyMarch 21, 2026CANBERRA TIMES

Anyone watching the smoke signals from Canberra knows that moves are afoot to try and...

Alarm bells ringing on more interest rate pain
Michael StutchburyMarch 18, 2026DAILY TELEGRAPH
Australians were losing faith that the combination of Labor’s economic policies and the RBA monetary...
Labor’s capital gains tax myths need busting
Robert CarlingMarch 11, 2026DAILY TELEGRAPH

Labor has long held an axe over the capital gains tax 50% discount and negative...

Measuring affordability in time, not dollars paints a different inflation picture
Marian L. TupyMarch 9, 2026CANBERRA TIMES

Even before new Middle East conflict sparked concern about petrol prices, Australia’s latest CPI release...

Blame diagnostic inflation for the NDIS’ $10b Autism bill
Steven SchwartzMarch 5, 2026AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

As recently reported in The Australian Financial Review, autism costs the National Disability Insurance Scheme...

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