For a nation with such a high percentage of migrants, Australia’s relationship with migration remains very fraught. Of course, we …
One of the intriguing arguments in defence of the Indigenous voice to parliament is the claim that its rejection at …
By preventing students from experiencing failure, we will keep them from gaining the self-confidence that comes from overcoming it. British …
The NSW budget on September 19 will be the first big policy test of the state’s new Labor government. The …
It came as a nasty surprise to almost everyone 15 years ago this Friday, when Lehman Brothers failed and the …
Degrowth push to abandon capitalism, growth and innovation in the name of ecological purity would condemn us all to poverty. …
Chris Kenny’s piece “Busting eight myths of the No Campaign” in Inquirer last weekend read like a laundry list of …
Politicians can’t live without experts. Faced with technical complexity all around them — whether in public health, climate science, economics …
In a political world obsessed with the ultra-short term, the 2023 Intergenerational Report (IGR) launched this week is a somewhat …
The NAPLAN results just released reveal a significant underperforming tail, which means school systems must do better in lifting achievement …
The Soul of Black Conservatism Jason Riley is a columnist at the Wall Street Journal, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, …
On Monday, 31 July our 2023 John Bonython lecturer, Jason Riley and Naomi Schaefer Riley, joined Tom Switzer at CIS for …
No bigger idea has emerged in recent years than the Voice to Parliament. Yet, there is still uncertainty about what …
On Tuesday, 18 July, we celebrated the launch of John Howard: From the Pavilion (Connor Court) at the CIS. Former Prime Minister John Howard OM AC was accompanied by esteemed author Andrew Blyth, the inaugural CIS John Howard Fellow, in an insightful evening
Complex tax changes always have unintended consequences, but in this case it is difficult to know what is intended and what is unintended.
The budget’s announcement of one million houses over the next five years will do very little to improve housing affordability.
Outsmart Your Brain
Conversation with Andrew Neil at CIS
CIS welcomes Anthony McAvoy, Shireen Morris, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine for a debate on the Voice to Parliament.
The post-Cold War era has resolutely ended with the Russian attack on Ukraine and China shaking its fist at Taiwan.
Rob chats to Lorraine Finlay, Human Rights Commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission, about the importance and nature of …
On this episode Rob chats to author Roslyn Fuller. Liberals believe in the value of democracy, but Roslyn tells Rob …
Speaking from Berlin, Sabine speaks with Rob about why she set up the Freiblickinstitut (Free Vision Institute) to promote open …
Claire Lehmann, founding editor of Quillette sits down with Rob. Claire explains the philosophy of the Quillette project in promoting …
Rob talks to Mike Bird, the Academic Dean at Ridley Theological College Melbourne, on the importance of secularism in contemporary …
On this episode Rob chats with former university vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz. Steven understands liberalism as an attitude that gives everyone …
In this discussion we hear a youthful take on Liberalism, Emilie is Australian Lead at Young Voices, an Advisor at …
Rob sits down the Centre for Independent Studies executive director Tom Switzer. Tom discusses with Rob what so called ‘Classical …
A fierce reformer for liberalism, Ruth Richardson is asked whether the ship of reforming liberalism has sailed in the light …
Rob and Nick discuss the liberalism of Robert Menzies for whom the independence of the individual was paramount and whether liberalism is somehow in tune with the human soul and, if so, why is it not widespread in today’s connected world? Nick explains to us that liberalism has a strong moral vision that works in practice.