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The rule of law is one the foundation stones of a free and prosperous society.  The CIS work examines constitutional issues, property rights and how are civil liberties are being undermined.

Publications

  1. FEATURE: No One True Culture of Liberty

    Daniel McCarthy | 22 Mar 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    Tolerance is important but difficult to define and easily subverted.

  2. 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.

  3. Behind the Moral Curtain: The Politics of a Charter of Rights

    Elise Parham | 01 Feb 2010 | Policy Monographs

    Elise Parham argues that a federal charter of rights would be used by special interest groups as a powerful political tool.... Read More...

  4. BOOK REVIEW: The rise of the conservative legal movement: The battle for control of the law

    Andrew Thackrah | 12 Dec 2009 | POLICY Magazine

    The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law by Steven M. Teles (Princeton University Press,... Read More...

  5. Family on the Edge: Stability and Fertility in Prosperity and Recession

    Barry Maley | 13 Oct 2009 | Policy Monographs

    Barry Maley argues that unless family law and policies rapidly change, family stability and a buoyant birth rate will be... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Rights charter would empower only lobbyists

    Elise Parham | 04 Feb 2010 | The Australian

    A federal charter of rights would only empower special interest groups.... Read More

  2. Charter of rights no protection for the vulnerable

    Elise Parham | 02 Feb 2010 | Open Forum

    A charter of rights that many of us imagine will not be the charter we actually get.... Read More

  3. The importance of staying single legally

    Jennifer Buckingham | 12 Aug 2002 | The Newcastle Herald

    The NSW Law Reform Commission proposes that, when unmarried couples who live together break up, their property settlement ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. Should governments choose their critics?

    Andrew Norton | 05 Feb 2010

    Recently, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a law preventing corporations and unions from directly funding ...

  2. Our enigmatic charter

    Elise Parham | 29 Jan 2010

    Classical liberals seem torn over whether we should introduce a federal charter of rights that lists human rights and ways ...

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