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Is Islam Compatible with Classical Liberalism? Part 2 with Dr. Mark Durie | Liberalism in Question
👉 Watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/zhxJXyavYzI Is Islam compatible with liberalism? In this episode of Liberalism in Question, Dr Mark Durie joins the Centre for Independent Studies to examine the…
Is Islam Compatible with Classical Liberalism? Part 1 with Dr. Samir Mahmoud | Liberalism in Question
👉Watch part 2 here: https://youtu.be/rIWyypaLy5k Is Islam Compatible with Classical Liberalism? | Dr. Samir Mahmoud What is the relationship between Islam and Classical Liberalism? Is there an…
Banana Republic Redux: How Australia is surrendering gains of the reform era | Alex Sanchez | Research Collection
Banana Republic Redux: How Australia is surrendering gains of the reform era | Alex Sanchez Read here:…
Shaping the Next Generation: Inside CIS’s Liberty & Society Conference | The Stutchbury Sessions
At the Centre for Independent Studies' annual Liberty and Society student conference, 38 students from Australia and New Zealand explored classical liberal philosophy, free markets and social…
The Temptations of Unfreedom Revisited | Dr Oliver Hartwich
Watch here: https://youtu.be/pfX-nzrgFPM "[Dahrendorf] had protected an idea: that intellectual work and practical engagement could combine without abandoning intellectual standards, that boundaries…
Generation Trapped: Why Young Australians Can't Get Ahead
In this Stutch Sessions episode Parnell Palm McGuinness, author of the CIS report Generation Trapped, explains how young Australians (18–34) split into six distinct 'tribes' all still aspire to…
What classical liberals get wrong about the rest of the World | Alexandre Lefebvre
What classical liberals get wrong about the rest of the World | Alexandre Lefebvre Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Sydney and author of Liberalism as a Way of Life,…
Australia's Broken Budget | Chris Richardson, Michael Stutchbury, Robert Carling & Richard Holden
As Treasurer Jim Chalmers prepares to hand down his fifth federal budget on 12 May 2026, four of Australia's leading economists gather at the Centre for Independent Studies to ask: is this budget up…
Is Australia Doomed? | Marian L. Tupy
People have a lot of opinions and a lot of anecdotes that may not necessarily be true. Politicians deal with feelings. Economists and analysts should deal with facts. We have looked at the data and…
Australia is a High Tax Country | The Stutchbury Sessions
As much as anything, the Centre for Independent Studies’ first 50 years has been dedicated to restraining the growth in the size, reach and financing of government to provide room for private…
Grim reality of the NDIS leviathan | The Stutchbury Sessions
Grim reality of the NDIS leviathan “It will start big and get bigger and grow to become the new leviathan of the Australian welfare state,” CIS scholar Andrew Baker further predicted of Labor’s…
Defending 'Neoliberalism' from the Left and Right
The hard lesson of Australia’s protectionist past is that propping up uncompetitive and high cost industries invariably poses a burden on other sectors, including on the mining, gas and farm…
The Australian Dream is Dead | Parnell Palme McGuinness
Over the past several decades, Australian society has undergone profound economic, social, and cultural change. Education pathways have lengthened, housing costs have far outpaced wages, family…
Infinite possibilities from the dark side of the moon
Donald Trump’s threats to destroy the ‘whole civilisation’ of Iran this week jarringly contrasted with the out-of-this world American achievement of sending a four-member crew as far from Earth as…
Middle East oil shock fuels panic vote-buying | The Stutchbury Sessions
Australia’s new economic decline is colliding with the breakdown of the liberal rules-based orders for global trade and security. The post-pandemic and oil shock push for more sovereign capability…
Four lessons from the energy crisis of 1970s
I was in Canberra this week, in part to hear International Energy Agency head Fatih Birol warn that today’s oil price shock will rival the twin Middle East energy shocks of the 1970s. The 1973 and…
The Legislative Fantasy. Hate Speech, Culture and Institutional Failure by Dimitri Burshtein
The Bondi Beach attack of 14 December 2025 forced a reckoning that many Australians had been quietly avoiding. Antisemitism was not, it turned out, a relic of European history or a pathology confined…
Inflation Expectations | The Stutchbury Sessions
RBA governor Michele Bullock has jacked up her cash rate by 25 basis points for the second month in a row because of two words that can strike fear into the heart of central bankers: “inflation…
"The 50% discount is unfair" and other CGT myths | Robert Carling & Michael Stutchbury
The criticisms and characterization of the 50% capital gains tax discount over many years have been full of misunderstandings, myths and distortions in the conventional narrative on how capital gains…
Why We Should Not Increase Capital Gains Tax by Robert Carling | Research Collection
Read the paper at www.cis.org.au Executive Summary. This paper is an expanded version of a submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Operation of the Capital Gains Tax Discount. The author…
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