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CIS Lightbulb Lunch
Maria Rankka
Ms Rankka is the CEO of The Swedish Free Enterprise Foundation and President of the Stockholm-based free-market think tank, Timbro. Here she discusses lessons from the Swedish economy, where the "culture of opportunity" that arose in the 1980s from lowered taxes, deregulation and the country's move away from socialist ambitions, is giving way to a debilitating "culture of entitlement". |
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CIS Lightbulb Lunch
Dr Razeen Sally
Dr Razeen Sally is the co-Director of the newly-formed European Centre for International Political Economy, an international economic policy think tank based in Brussels. He is also Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, as well as head of its International Trade Policy Unit, from which he is currently on sabbatical.
Dr Sally voices his thoughts on the future for trade liberalism, and examine what lessons can be learned from the political economy of policy reform in emerging markets. |
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The 9th Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom
Bishop Tom Frame
Do Secular Societies Provoke Religious Extremism?
Secularism, properly understood, seeks to prevent the state from supporting religious causes and denominational campaigns. But this satisfies neither religious people nor those atheists who would like to see religion completely driven from public life.
Frame concludes that in a genuinely secular society all must recognise and respect the opinions of those with whom they disagree, and accept that both the religious and the non-religious ought to participate in public life and discourse. In this way, Australians can avoid creating a society of coercion and violence in the name of religion or of secularism. |
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Elightening Islam
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
CIS was privileged to host a Roundtable discussion with one of the world’s most controversial thinkers – Ayaan Hirsi Ali. This outspoken Somali refugee and former Dutch parliamentarian discussed her ideas about the importance of instilling Western Enlightenment thinking in all Western citizens – both immigrant and local populations. |
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Milton Friedman Tribute
Milton Friedman was one of the 20th century's greatest economists and
champions of freedom, his passing on November 16 last year was a huge loss. The CIS is commemorating Friedman’s contribution to our intellectual life and policy environment with a forum on March 12 in Sydney. Five prominent economists and thinkers will discuss Friedman's public life, his visits to Australia in 1975 and 1981, and explore his most influential ideas on monetary policy, inflation, the role of the central bank, exchange rate policy, education policy, conscription and the military draft, plus a screening of Friedman’s 1980 TV series ‘Free to Choose’. |
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