Why power prices keep climbing: The hidden costs behind the crisis
Australians were told that renewable energy would bring cheaper power. Yet, electricity bills remain high, with many households struggling to …
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Political legitimacy, harm protections and our freedoms
This article considers different concepts of ‘legitimacy’ and their contribution to understanding the difference between the power to govern, and the right to do so, comparing the very different models of legitimacy claimed in revolutionary America and France, and where Australia sits.
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The Unworkable Solution: An Economic Assessment of a Cashflow Tax for Australia
Executive Summary Australia faces persistent economic challenges. Productivity growth has slowed, business investment is uneven, and real wages have lagged …
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Knowledge is power: What do teachers believe about learning?
Executive Summary This report presents findings from literature about what teachers believe about how students learn: the prevalence of myths …
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2025 Neville Kennard Address: The Dire Plight of the Mainstream Right
This is an edited version of the speech given to the 2025 CIS Consilium event by distinguished British print and …
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Risky Business. How The Energy Transition Introduces Risks That Raise Retail Costs
Executive Summary The electricity system in Australia is adjusting to an increase in the overall amount of risk brought about …
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2025 John Bonython Lecture: The Axis of Autocracy – New World Disorder
Far from it being the end of history, the story of this century so far — and we’re now a quarter of the way through it — has been the rise of the autocrats. This has been their century.
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An economic walk on the supply side
This is an edited version of Michael Stutchbury’s keynote address to the 2025 Freedom to Choose Conference Australia is a …
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Drawing the Line: Moral Conflict and the Fragility of Liberal Tolerance
Liberal democracies face an unprecedented challenge: how to govern societies where citizens no longer disagree merely about policies, but about the fundamental values that should guide public life.
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The Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the sun rests on a misplaced conviction about what the renewables rollout will entail.
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Trump’s goal to end Ukraine war makes moral sense
Friday’s heated exchange in the White House was surely a regrettable moment in American diplomatic history more akin to reality …
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Albanese could learn from Howard when it comes to Indonesia
Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto visiting Australia before he has even been inaugurated is a positive sign. But the history of …
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It’s the most volatile election in living memory and anything can and will happen
In five decades of living alternately on the two sides of the Pacific, I have never seen anything like it. …
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NATO’s Prophetic Critics. Expanding the alliance has led to a war many experts predicted
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a chorus of government officials, academics, commentators, and retired bureaucrats and diplomats has dismissed …
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Why Republicans are sceptical about funding Ukraine
When US policy-makers supported Nato expansion in the 1990s, it was widely believed that America, as the sole remaining superpower, …
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The West’s bid to expand NATO eastwards was a mistake
For the people of Ukraine, the failure of Western nations to help them defeat Russia and end their suffering is …
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John Mearsheimer: ABC interview excerpts
While in Australia with the Centre for Independent Studies, John Mearsheimer took time to speak to ABC Radio’s Queensland Drive …
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Self-inflicted challenges hit West on four fronts
As 2022 draws to a close, most people will be glad to see the back of it. The post-Cold War …
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Partisan games stir up the divided states of America
US midterm elections are always a vote of confidence in incumbents, and this year’s midterms are expected to inflict severe …
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Xi: the loneliest man in the world
Australia is in trouble with China — again. This week the Chinese ambassador in Canberra, Xiao Qian, came close to …