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Government and Politics

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Individual freedom and prosperity depends on having healthy institutions.  Ever expanding government and regulation leads to less competition and in turn a less responsive public sector.  The CIS examines the way government poses threats to maintaining a healthy civil society.

Publications

  1. FEATURE: Democratic Accountability and the Australian Federal System of Government

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 22 Mar 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    With better design, federalism can still bring government closer to voters.

  2. BOOK REVIEW: Confusion: The Making of the Australia Two-Party System

    David Kemp | 22 Mar 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    The formation of the first national and united Liberal Party in the Commonwealth Parliament in 1909 led to the first two-party... Read More...

  3. BOOK REVIEW: So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era

    Michelle Irving | 22 Mar 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    Margaret Fitzherbert’s new book So Many Firsts tracks the political achievements of Australian Liberal women, their political... Read More...

  4. BOOK REVIEW: The Death of Conservatism

    Andrew Kemp | 22 Mar 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    Sam Tanenhaus’s The Death of Conservatism is a history of ‘movement conservatism,’ from its rise in post-War America... Read More...

  5. BOOK REVIEW: Prosecuting Heads of State

    Chula Na Ranong | 22 Mar 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    Forced disappearances, political corruption, ethnic cleansing: Prosecuting Heads of State surveys the egregious governance... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. A World Away

    John Lee | 27 Aug 2010 | Time Magazine

    While candidates in the federal election sidestepped foreign policy for the sake of a few marginal seats, Australians as ... Read More

  2. The perils of multi-party Australia

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 26 Aug 2010 | Business Spectator

    It may be nerve-wrecking for the Australian public to watch the negotiations between the parties and the independents in ... Read More

  3. City got big but never grew up

    Stephen Kirchner | 19 Aug 2010 | The Australian

    A little bit of Sydney history illustrates the point that transport, infrastructure and other problems have nothing to do ... Read More

  4. The Italian omen

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 12 Aug 2010 | Business Spectator

    Is everything back to normal for Europe? Was the European crisis just a storm in a teacup? Asks Oliver Marc Hartwich in Business ... Read More

  5. What's missing from the population debate

    Jessica Brown | 12 Aug 2010 | Business Spectator

    To seriously meet the challenges of population growth, we first need to deal with some problems with the functioning of our ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. Breaking out of the political madhouse

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 23 Jul 2010

    No longer does politics seem to have the impact on a world that politicians want to change for the better. Instead, it has ...

  2. Policy short-terminalism

    Jeremy Sammut | 02 Jul 2010

    Every commentator in the land has had their say about the unprecedented dismissal of a first-term Prime Minister. The consensus ...

  3. UK election report

    Peter Saunders | 14 May 2010

    On election night, academic Peter Hennessy excitedly told BBC viewers, ‘Today could be one of those days the British Constitution ...

  4. Flat Champagne from a Poisoned Chalice – early UK election report

    Peter Saunders | 07 May 2010

    ‘By the time you read this, Britain will have gone to the polls and we may know who the next government will be. More accurately, ...

  5. UK election report - The questions no one dares to answer

    Peter Saunders | 23 Apr 2010

    ‘The parties launched their manifestos this week....

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