• Ideas about Liberty

Ideas about liberty permeate all elements of CIS research. How much government and regulation does Australia need are questions that we address through our research and events program.

We believe in liberty; freedom of association, religion and speech; and the right to property.

The ideal we endorse is that a good society is one in which autonomous citizens are at liberty to order their affairs as they wish, and in which individuals have the capacity to take personal responsibility for their choices.

Grim reality of the NDIS leviathan
Michael StutchburyApril 24, 2026

“It will start big and get bigger and grow to become the new leviathan of...

Robert Carling on our becoming a welfare state, Peter Kurti on immigration, and more
April 24, 2026

Australia is becoming a European welfare state. That’s not good news — Australian Financial Review...

Peter Tulip announces Heritage Howler Awards, Stutch warns of the fiscal cliff, Steven Schwartz on NDIS, and more
April 23, 2026

Sydney? Harbour and Opera House. Melbourne? Heritage-listed car parks — ABC Free market think tank...

Jewish identity, antisemitism and media responsibility
Michael GawendaApril 23, 2026AP104

Foreword This paper by Michael Gawenda occupies an important place in the Centre for Independent...

Stuck in the Friedman era? Guilty as charged
Michael StutchburyApril 22, 2026

Yours truly came under fire this week in The Australian Financial Review letters page under...

Heritage too important to waste on carparks and substations
Peter TulipApril 22, 2026DAILY TELEGRAPH

Australia is a country rightly proud of its heritage. We preserve convict sites, historic homesteads...

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