Greg Lindsay
Senior Fellow & Founder
Expertise: Ideas about liberty, the Australian policy environment
Greg Lindsay AO is a Senior Fellow and the Founder of The Centre for Independent Studies.
While studying Philosophy at Macquarie University in the early 1970s, Greg became interested in the ideas underpinning a free and open society. A maths teacher by training, Greg taught for some years at Richmond High School in Western Sydney, and founded the Centre in 1976. Since then, he has overseen the development of the CIS into one of Australia’s most influential organisations covering three major policy areas – economic, social and international.
Greg has been active in the international liberal movement and is a former President of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Featured Publication
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Helen Hughes: A Tribute 27 August 2014 | PF26CIS Senior Fellow Professor Helen Hughes AO passed away on 15 June 2013 after a lifetime dedicated to working passionately and always fiercely on behalf of the poor and the powerless. Helen was a distinguished economist with a particular focus…READ MORE
Media & Commentary
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What is government for? 10 February 2017 | Ideas@TheCentreFor someone who has observed politics and the changing political culture as long as I have, the current wave of change and dissatisfaction gives no comfort. Whether in Australia or elsewhere, the grumpiness of the electorate is playing out in…read more -
Company tax-cut doubters ignore economic dynamism 16 June 2016 | australian financial reviewNokia phones, Kodak cameras and the Netscape browser once dominated their markets. But they withered because they failed to respond fast enough to changes in society and technology. These examples, and many others, show the best businesses respond quickly to…read more -
TPP threatens nobody's sovereignty 24 February 2016 | Australian Financial ReviewScaremongering campaigns against Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions in the recently concluded TPP talks are the new sweet spot for protectionist siders. We’ve even seen Hillary Clinton facing accusations of conducting a union-backed misinformation campaign against the twelve-nation deal. In Australia,…read more -
Local wages will mean local jobs 06 January 2016 | Australian Financial ReviewBeneath the growing dispute over Sunday penalty rates lies a much broader discussion over the limits and effectiveness of our national minimum wage system. Australians — in particular many young unemployed — would benefit from exploring further options to mandated…read more -
Reform spending not taxes 03 August 2015 | Australian Financial ReviewThe public policy debate surrounding tax and government spending has travelled a long way since the Abbott government came to office committed to ending the “age of entitlement” – but in a direction that will sooner or later be proven…read more
Publications
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CIS at Forty: Leadership in Ideas Since 1976 18 April 2016Paul Kelly interviews Greg LindsayREAD MORE -
INTERVIEW: The Dynamics of Development 29 May 2000Greg Lindsay talks to Helen Hughes. From fifteen years at the World Bank to ten years at the National Centre for Development Studies, Helen Hughes has had a distringuished career in economics as both a practitioner and an academic. In 1985 she was awarded an Order of Australia in recognition…READ MORE -
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FEATURE: The Mont Pelerin Society Bali Meeting 29 May 1999The need remains to continue restating the case for the principles of classical liberalism in the West. A window of opportunity has also opened for the dissemination of liberal ideas in the new polities of the Asia Pacific region.READ MORE
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INTERVIEW: An Optimistic Window? 29 May 1999Global Markets in the Information Era: Greg Lindsay talks with Jerry Jordan.READ MORE
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FEATURE: Threats to Freedom: Then and Now 29 May 1997The Mont Pelerin Society after 50 years.READ MORE