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Hours, Not Dollars: Rethinking the cost-of-living debate

Paper by MARIAN L TUPY

Drowning in a Sea of Diagnoses. How medicalising distress is overwhelming Australia’s mental health system

Paper by PROF STEVEN SCHWARTZ

Overcoming Enmity and Restoring Tolerance. Antisemitism’s challenge for the civic compact

Paper by DAMIEN FREEMAN

The RBA had no choice but to tighten the screws

Oped by ROBERT CARLING and MICHAEL STUTCHBURY in the Canberra Times

The only things going up now are the prices

Oped by ROBERT CARLING in the Daily Telegraph

It’s judgment day: time for unis to kick politics off campus

Oped by PROF STEVEN SCHWARTZ in The Australian

Economic exceptionalism is dead – and rate cuts died with it

Oped by MICHAEL STUTCHBURY in The Australian Financial Review

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Reform of Heritage Legislation

Peter Tulip · 26 February 2026

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New CIS paper: rewrite heritage laws that are worsening the housing crisis

26 February 2026

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CIS Statement to Senate inquiry on Capital Gains Tax discount

Robert Carling · 26 February 2026

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Marian Tupy: More People, More Ideas, More Abundance – Sydney

Peter Kurti · 26 February 2026

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Marian Tupy: More People, More Ideas, More Abundance – Perth

Marian Tupy · 04 March 2026

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Better teachers, better teaching? Building a stronger education system

Dr Carl Hendrick · 10 March 2026

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Hours, Not Dollars: Rethinking the cost-of-living debate

Paper by MARIAN L TUPY

Drowning in a Sea of Diagnoses. How medicalising distress is overwhelming Australia’s mental health system

Paper by PROF STEVEN SCHWARTZ

Overcoming Enmity and Restoring Tolerance. Antisemitism’s challenge for the civic compact

Paper by DAMIEN FREEMAN

The RBA had no choice but to tighten the screws

Oped by ROBERT CARLING and MICHAEL STUTCHBURY in the Canberra Times

The only things going up now are the prices

Oped by ROBERT CARLING in the Daily Telegraph

It’s judgment day: time for unis to kick politics off campus

Oped by PROF STEVEN SCHWARTZ in The Australian

Economic exceptionalism is dead – and rate cuts died with it

Oped by MICHAEL STUTCHBURY in The Australian Financial Review

Reform of Heritage Legislation

New CIS paper: rewrite heritage laws that are worsening the housing crisis

CIS Statement to Senate inquiry on Capital Gains Tax discount

Marian Tupy: More People, More Ideas, More Abundance – Sydney

Marian Tupy: More People, More Ideas, More Abundance – Perth

Better teachers, better teaching? Building a stronger education system