Centre for Independent Studies
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The Centre for Independent Studies promotes free choice and individual liberty and the open exchange of ideas. CIS encourages debate among leading academics, politicians, media and the public. We aim to make sure good policy ideas are heard and seriously considered so that Australia can prosper.
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The Voice To Parliament Debate
May 08, 2023 01:25 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBOn April 4, CIS hosted and broadcasted an Oxford-style debate on the motion “The Voice to Parliament is needed to address Indigenous matters.” This year Australia will hold a referendum on whether to change the constitution and ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ views are better represented in Parliament. Is the Voice about giving Indigenous Australians a right to express their views on policy through representatives elected by their communities? Or would the Voice provide c...
Conversation With Andrew Neil at CIS
May 04, 2023 02:11 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBAndrew Neil joins Tom Switzer for a conversation about political and public-policy subjects — from British politics and the travails of the Royal family to the energy transition and the changing media industry to the Ukraine crisis and the rise of China. Andrew Neil is one of the world’s most prominent print and broadcast journalists, having been a long-time editor of the Sunday Times and chief political interviewer on the BBC. He is chairman of Press Holdings Media Group, which publishes Th...
On Liberty EP104 | Matt Taylor | The Intergenerational Challenge
January 10, 2023 02:51 - 29 minutes - 27 MBSalvatore Babones returns to discuss the new CIS Intergenerational research program with Program Director Matt Taylor. Despite the 30-year economic boom that preceded the Covid pandemic, there is growing evidence that younger Australians have not shared in the benefits to the same extent as generations before them. These younger generations will bear the brunt of paying back the $617 billion of government debt incurred in the wake of the government response to Covid, debt that is set to peak...
S3E9 | Lorraine Finlay 'human rights that give us our humanity'
November 21, 2022 22:00 - 37 minutes - 68.7 MBRob chats to Lorraine Finlay, Human Rights Commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission, about the importance and nature of human rights. A convinced believer is liberalism, Lorraine understands human rights as absolutely important which give is our humanity. She is also aware that they are not inevitable. Nor do they come from government but are only expressed through government.
S3E9 | Lorraine Finlay ’human rights that give us our humanity’
November 21, 2022 22:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBRob chats to Lorraine Finlay, Human Rights Commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission, about the importance and nature of human rights. A convinced believer is liberalism, Lorraine understands human rights as absolutely important which give is our humanity. She is also aware that they are not inevitable. Nor do they come from government but are only expressed through government.
On Liberty EP103 | Melissa Montiero | Migrant Communities In Australia
November 15, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBGuest host Glenn Fahey returns to discuss challenges facing new immigrants to Australia with Melissa Monteiro, CEO of the Community Migrant Resource Centre. As a community practitioner, Melissa has worked to ensure peoples from worn-torn nations are able to find community and start life new, particularly those immigrants from less-developed countries who settle in Western Sydney. In a report from 2016 from the Forum on the Settlement of Syrian and Iraqi Refugees, it showed that over 30 ag...
On Liberty EP102 | John Kehoe | 2022 Federal Budget Recap Part 2
November 11, 2022 04:08 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBGuest host Simon Cowan reenters the budget bunker to discuss the second federal budget in 2022 with Australian Financial Review Economics editor in Parliament House, Canberra John Kehoe. Simon and John break down the budget and cover what the mainstream media has missed. It's Labor's turn. After a victory in the Federal Election in part due to the former Liberal Government's mishandling of the economy, the new Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers is set to deliver his 'wellness' budget. Are we set...
On Liberty EP101 | Yun Jiang | Rising Nationalism Amongst China's Youth
November 01, 2022 03:10 - 29 minutes - 262 MBSalvatore Babones returns to discuss the rise of nationalism amongst China's youth with Yun Jiang, inaugural China Matters Fellow at the Australian Institute of International Affairs. China’s youths have become more nationalistic, especially compared to the previous generation. Many outside China attribute the increasing nationalism to the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s patriotic education campaign as well as its control of information in China. According to Yun Jiang, it would be wron...
On Liberty EP101 | Yun Jiang | Rising Nationalism Amongst China’s Youth
November 01, 2022 03:10 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBSalvatore Babones returns to discuss the rise of nationalism amongst China's youth with Yun Jiang, inaugural China Matters Fellow at the Australian Institute of International Affairs. China’s youths have become more nationalistic, especially compared to the previous generation. Many outside China attribute the increasing nationalism to the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s patriotic education campaign as well as its control of information in China. According to Yun Jiang, it would be wron...
The Michaela Way | Katharine Birbalsingh
October 31, 2022 23:20 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBKatharine is a leading figure in education practice and policy and founder as well as principal of London's Michaela Community School. It’s no secret that Australian schools’ performance has been in decline for many years. That’s not for a lack of funding, nor a lack of commitment from countless dedicated educators. But more can be done to advance the learning of all students, no matter their background. It’s a culture of high expectations, consistently well-managed classes, high behavioura...
On Liberty EP100 | Salvatore Babones | Liberty Learnt Over 100 Episodes
October 14, 2022 07:01 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBTo celebrate 100 Episodes of On Liberty we flip the script and CIS executive director Tom Switzer interviews regular On Liberty host Salvatore Babones. Over 100 episodes, Salvatore has interviewed a wide range of guests on an incredible range of topics. We hear from Salvatore on what he has learnt about Classical Liberalism and political orthodoxy in Australia and around the world from his many interviews. As well as how On Liberty has shaped Salvatore's views, his new position as Director o...
On Liberty EP99 | Jack McGuire | Teachers And Nurses Deserve Choice, Not Monopoly Unions
October 09, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBWe welcome Red Union Managing Director, Jack McGuire. Jack argues there are not enough options available to workers to seek representation – ultimately restricting freedom of association. Instead, workers have little choice but to engage with legacy monopoly unions – regardless of whether or not they share the union’s political motivations or policy advocacy. The only way to ensure constructive representation of members, according to Jack, is to have professional associations governed by pra...
S3E4 | Steven Schwartz ’Liberalism: the winner in the battle of ideas but the loser on the ground’
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBOn this episode Rob chats with former university vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz. Steven understands liberalism as an attitude that gives everyone an opportunity to flourish — an attitude of ‘live and let live’ so long as you do not interfere with others living their lives. He believes liberalism has won the big battle of ideas, but that it keeps on being undermined in the narrow world of practical politics.
S3E5 | Mike Bird 'A theologian who thinks secularism is a very good thing'
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes - 63.8 MBRob talks to Mike Bird, the Academic Dean at Ridley Theological College Melbourne, on the importance of secularism in contemporary Australian life and about his recent book Religious Freedom in a Secular Age (Harper Collins, May 2022). Mike contends that with a secular government religious bodies do not control the state and the state does not control religious bodies—to the benefit of both. They also discuss the threats to a secular government, which come surprisingly not from religious bodi...
S3E7 | Sabine Beppler-Spahl 'Challenges and opportunities for liberalism in Germany'
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 45 minutes - 83.5 MBSpeaking from Berlin, Sabine speaks with Rob about why she set up the Freiblickinstitut (Free Vision Institute) to promote open freedom of discussion and tolerance in public debate. They discuss some of the tragic moments of lost opportunity for liberalism in Germany history. Sabine explains why there is no German word for ‘Cancel Culture’ in German, even though the phenomenon exists in a country that has always had some form of censorship. She describes the unusual powers of the courts in Ge...
S3E4 | Steven Schwartz 'Liberalism: the winner in the battle of ideas but the loser on the ground'
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 36 minutes - 67 MBOn this episode Rob chats with former university vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz. Steven understands liberalism as an attitude that gives everyone an opportunity to flourish — an attitude of ‘live and let live’ so long as you do not interfere with others living their lives. He believes liberalism has won the big battle of ideas, but that it keeps on being undermined in the narrow world of practical politics.
S3E6 | Claire Lehmann ’Against tribalism. Take an empirical not emotional approach’
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBClaire Lehmann, founding editor of Quillette sits down with Rob. Claire explains the philosophy of the Quillette project in promoting Enlightenment values of reason, the use of evidence, and free thought which first arose to confront unconscious left-wing bias in psychology. She believes ideological diversity is helpful in any search for truth because everyone has blind spots. Rob and Claire discuss the nature and dangers of tribalism in thought. She believes that while liberalism is not unde...
S3E5 | Mike Bird ’A theologian who thinks secularism is a very good thing’
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBRob talks to Mike Bird, the Academic Dean at Ridley Theological College Melbourne, on the importance of secularism in contemporary Australian life and about his recent book Religious Freedom in a Secular Age (Harper Collins, May 2022). Mike contends that with a secular government religious bodies do not control the state and the state does not control religious bodies—to the benefit of both. They also discuss the threats to a secular government, which come surprisingly not from religious bodi...
S3E1 | Ruth Richardson 'What’s needed to revive liberalism; ideas and a spine'
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutes - 60.3 MBA fierce reformer for liberalism, Ruth Richardson is asked whether the ship of reforming liberalism has sailed in the light of the many setbacks it has experienced in the last decades. They discuss how the restoration liberalism to its dynamic rightful place will depend on three things, the ideas of freedom, the institutions that buttress that freedom, and the individuals who champion that freedom—all of which have been missing of late.
S3E3 | Emilie Dye ”I’m the the expert in me” —the value of individual freedom
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBIn this discussion we hear a youthful take on Liberalism, Emilie is Australian Lead at Young Voices, an Advisor at GT Communications and former policy director at the Australian Taxpayers Alliance. Emily understands Liberalism as based on the understanding that only an individual can know what is best for their life. However, she is also aware that many of her generation are disillusioned with how they see the world and wrongly see the solution as more government.
S3E3 | Emilie Dye "I'm the the expert in me" —the value of individual freedom
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes - 58.4 MBIn this discussion we hear a youthful take on Liberalism, Emilie is Australian Lead at Young Voices, an Advisor at GT Communications and former policy director at the Australian Taxpayers Alliance. Emily understands Liberalism as based on the understanding that only an individual can know what is best for their life. However, she is also aware that many of her generation are disillusioned with how they see the world and wrongly see the solution as more government.
S3E1 | Ruth Richardson ’What’s needed to revive liberalism; ideas and a spine’
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBA fierce reformer for liberalism, Ruth Richardson is asked whether the ship of reforming liberalism has sailed in the light of the many setbacks it has experienced in the last decades. They discuss how the restoration liberalism to its dynamic rightful place will depend on three things, the ideas of freedom, the institutions that buttress that freedom, and the individuals who champion that freedom—all of which have been missing of late.
S3E7 | Sabine Beppler-Spahl ’Challenges and opportunities for liberalism in Germany’
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBSpeaking from Berlin, Sabine speaks with Rob about why she set up the Freiblickinstitut (Free Vision Institute) to promote open freedom of discussion and tolerance in public debate. They discuss some of the tragic moments of lost opportunity for liberalism in Germany history. Sabine explains why there is no German word for ‘Cancel Culture’ in German, even though the phenomenon exists in a country that has always had some form of censorship. She describes the unusual powers of the courts in Ge...
S3E6 | Claire Lehmann 'Against tribalism. Take an empirical not emotional approach'
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes - 78.1 MBClaire Lehmann, founding editor of Quillette sits down with Rob. Claire explains the philosophy of the Quillette project in promoting Enlightenment values of reason, the use of evidence, and free thought which first arose to confront unconscious left-wing bias in psychology. She believes ideological diversity is helpful in any search for truth because everyone has blind spots. Rob and Claire discuss the nature and dangers of tribalism in thought. She believes that while liberalism is not unde...
S3E2 | Tom Switzer ’The power of choice that makes society better—even if it not appreciated’
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBRob sits down the Centre for Independent Studies executive director Tom Switzer. Tom discusses with Rob what so called ‘Classical Liberalism’ is and why he is convinced it is best for society. This leads to the question if it works better, why don’t more people believe in it?
S3E8 | Roslyn Fuller 'That’s not democracy, this is democracy!'
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 38 minutes - 70.1 MBOn this episode Rob chats to author Roslyn Fuller. Liberals believe in the value of democracy, but Roslyn tells Rob there is truly little of it in the world today. This is because there is little direct power given to people in our system of government. Drawing on the example of ancient Athens, Roslyn outlines her preferred model of direct democracy. Her critique of the current representative democracy is that it is open to corruption and devoid of what the people actually want. Roslyn argues...
S3E8 | Roslyn Fuller ’That’s not democracy, this is democracy!’
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBOn this episode Rob chats to author Roslyn Fuller. Liberals believe in the value of democracy, but Roslyn tells Rob there is truly little of it in the world today. This is because there is little direct power given to people in our system of government. Drawing on the example of ancient Athens, Roslyn outlines her preferred model of direct democracy. Her critique of the current representative democracy is that it is open to corruption and devoid of what the people actually want. Roslyn argues...
S3E2 | Tom Switzer 'The power of choice that makes society better—even if it not appreciated'
September 29, 2022 00:00 - 36 minutes - 66.1 MBRob sits down the Centre for Independent Studies executive director Tom Switzer. Tom discusses with Rob what so called ‘Classical Liberalism’ is and why he is convinced it is best for society. This leads to the question if it works better, why don’t more people believe in it?
On Liberty EP97 | Mark Latham | We Must Increase The Size And Skill Of Our Teacher Workforce
September 13, 2022 02:32 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBWe welcomed Mark Latham, Member of the NSW Legislative Council and Chair of the NSW Parliament’s Education Committee. There are important challenges facing teachers across Australia, resulting in significant attention from federal and state policymakers. Mark argues that teacher shortages are a serious problem impacting on the learning of children in very real ways – resulting in merged classes, out-of-field teaching, and the scrapping of some school support programs. He points to results ...
On Liberty EP98 | Peter Gregory | The Territory Gap
September 13, 2022 02:27 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBWe welcomed Mark Latham, Member of the NSW Legislative Council and Chair of the NSW Parliament’s Education Committee. There are important challenges facing teachers across Australia, resulting in significant attention from federal and state policymakers. Mark argues that teacher shortages are a serious problem impacting on the learning of children in very real ways – resulting in merged classes, out-of-field teaching, and the scrapping of some school support programs. He points to results ...
On Liberty EP96 | Eliza Owen | Is The Property Bubble Bursting?
August 10, 2022 03:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBOn the show this week, Salvatore Babones returns to discuss the future of housing and rental prices with Eliza Owen of CoreLogic. Many Australian homeowners and renters will be nervously waiting to see what effects the RBA's interest rate increases will have on their home loans and rent payments. While increases to the cash rate may help ease house price pressures, and stem inflation, many first home buyers know this represents an increase to their monthly repayments. According to Eliza Owe...
On Liberty EP95 | Simon Breheny | No Harm Done From Harm Reduction
August 08, 2022 02:21 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBWe welcome Simon Breheny, Public Policy Manager at Philip Morris International and former Policy Director at the Institute of Public Affairs. Simon argues that it’s more humane, less costly, and more effective to focus on reducing harm caused from consumption of lifestyle products, like tobacco and drugs, rather than only seeking to prevent use entirely. Choking supply of potentially harmful drugs doesn’t prevent access to, or use of, drugs. But it can unnecessarily result in riskier condit...
On Liberty EP94 | Pamela Snow | Early Literacy Important For Later Success
July 13, 2022 04:01 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBGlenn Fahey speaks with Professor Pamela Snow to discuss the correlation between poor literacy education and later disadvantage in life. Professor Snow has undertaken extensive research into how people end up in the youth justice, out-of-home care systems and factors leading to non-participation in mainstream education. Currently, 30-40% of students aren’t meeting minimum literacy benchmarks, the task is to ensure every teacher in every classroom in the country teaching K-2 has access to the...
On Liberty EP93 | Chris Uhlmann | Energy Can't Be Spun
July 08, 2022 03:30 - 30 minutes - 216 MBGuest host Tom Switzer speaks to journalist Chris Uhlmann on the likelihood of a clean energy transition and the increasing energy crisis affecting not only Australia but the world. Have politicians been too focused reaching "energy goals" that they have neglected to think about the short term? Can Australia realistically move away from coal and gas-powered energy sources in a cost-effective manner? Is all this energy transition talk just spin by politicians to get elected? In August 2016 Pr...
On Liberty EP93 | Chris Uhlmann | Energy Can’t Be Spun
July 08, 2022 03:30 - 30 minutes - 28 MBGuest host Tom Switzer speaks to journalist Chris Uhlmann on the likelihood of a clean energy transition and the increasing energy crisis affecting not only Australia but the world. Have politicians been too focused reaching "energy goals" that they have neglected to think about the short term? Can Australia realistically move away from coal and gas-powered energy sources in a cost-effective manner? Is all this energy transition talk just spin by politicians to get elected? In August 2016 Pr...
On Liberty EP92 | Emma Hurst | Ethical farming: Fad or Future?
July 05, 2022 00:52 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBWe speak to Emma Hurst MLC, member of the NSW Upper House, on what role the government should play in animal welfare. Australia has the fourth fastest growing vegan market in the world and plant-based vegan options have become common and widely available in many of our favourite restaurants. With the increased ethical implications of sustainable and responsible farming, does it make sense for people to turn to these new options? Emma argues that better outcomes for animals, as well as farmers...
On Liberty EP91 | Deyi Wu | Have The Next Generation Lost Interest In Politics
June 09, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBPresident of the NSW Young Liberals, Deyi Wu joined Salvatore Babones to discuss whether our younger generations have lost interest in politics, and if there is a bright future for either party. The recent federal election has shown us that independent grassroots campaigns threaten both major parties and could permanently change establishment politics. Issues, such as housing affordability, inflation, interest rates and climate are important to younger voters, but have the major parties lost...
On Liberty EP90 | Janet Albrechtsen | Prime Minister Albanese And A Labor Government
June 07, 2022 23:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBThis week we speak to Janet Albrechtsen, columnist for The Australian to discuss the 2022 federal election results. Last weekend's election was not so much a big Labor victory, but a massive backlash against the Liberals, especially in Western Australia and metropolitan inner-urban electorates across the nation. The 2022 federal election has not only brought about a change of government but has been one of the most interesting results in Australia's political history. In the days, weeks, and...
On Liberty EP89 | Mihai Sora | China's Expanse Into The Pacific Islands
June 07, 2022 09:30 - 29 minutes - 215 MBPacific countries often say they do not want to be drawn into geopolitics. All have adopted a “friends to all and enemies to none” foreign policy. However, the proposed security agreement between China and the Solomon Islands shows that geopolitics is well and truly thriving. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has said the Solomon Islands, a nation of about 700,000 people, was not taking sides. But the agreement has an immediate effect on every country in the region and it is very much connect...
On Liberty EP89 | Mihai Sora | China’s Expanse Into The Pacific Islands
June 07, 2022 09:30 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBPacific countries often say they do not want to be drawn into geopolitics. All have adopted a “friends to all and enemies to none” foreign policy. However, the proposed security agreement between China and the Solomon Islands shows that geopolitics is well and truly thriving. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has said the Solomon Islands, a nation of about 700,000 people, was not taking sides. But the agreement has an immediate effect on every country in the region and it is very much connect...
On Liberty EP88 | Bob Catley | Present At The Creation Of Wokism
June 07, 2022 07:26 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBCancel culture, virtue signaling, pronouns in bios—"wokeness" is often compared to a virus, and one that is spreading with no signs of an emerging herd immunity. This week's guest Bob Catley was there at the creation, teaching political science at universities in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s before entering Parliament for Labor in 1990. Catley argues that today's woke thinking is nothing new, but is the heir to 1960s radical activism. And he owns u...
On Liberty EP87 | Xavier Boffa | Constitution Counts For Australia's Politics And Society
May 06, 2022 00:35 - 32 minutes - 228 MBOn the show this week, we welcome Executive Director of the Samuel Griffith Society, Xavier Boffa, as he recaps developments in Australia’s constitutional arrangements. State border closures and mandates have tested the limits of the federation in responding to the pandemic. International sports stars have been at odds with federal-state divides. Political figures have been pronounced guilty by courts of public opinion rather than the rule of law. What are we to make of Australia’s many cons...
On Liberty EP87 | Xavier Boffa | Constitution Counts For Australia’s Politics And Society
May 06, 2022 00:35 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBOn the show this week, we welcome Executive Director of the Samuel Griffith Society, Xavier Boffa, as he recaps developments in Australia’s constitutional arrangements. State border closures and mandates have tested the limits of the federation in responding to the pandemic. International sports stars have been at odds with federal-state divides. Political figures have been pronounced guilty by courts of public opinion rather than the rule of law. What are we to make of Australia’s many cons...
On Liberty EP86 | Elizabeth Larus | What Is Xi Jinping's Real Agenda For China?
April 18, 2022 22:34 - 29 minutes - 215 MBChinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping will soon be appointed to a third term as President of China. A third term only made possible by his change to China's constitution, back in 2018, to eliminate term limits. Is this determination to retain the formal reins of power a sign of strength, or a sign of weakness? We talk to Chinese politics expert Professor Elizabeth Larus of Mary Washington University about the state of play in China's Politburo. We'll be asking Professor Larus about Xi's ...
On Liberty EP86 | Elizabeth Larus | What Is Xi Jinping’s Real Agenda For China?
April 18, 2022 22:34 - 29 minutes - 27 MBChinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping will soon be appointed to a third term as President of China. A third term only made possible by his change to China's constitution, back in 2018, to eliminate term limits. Is this determination to retain the formal reins of power a sign of strength, or a sign of weakness? We talk to Chinese politics expert Professor Elizabeth Larus of Mary Washington University about the state of play in China's Politburo. We'll be asking Professor Larus about Xi's ...
On Liberty EP85 | James Allan | Hate Speech And The Definition Of 'gender'
April 11, 2022 07:55 - 32 minutes - 244 MBThis week On Liberty talks to Prof James Allan of the University of Queensland. In his latest column for Australian Spectator, James explains why the acolytes of irrationality so often turn to accusations of 'hate speech'. As opposing hate is "one of the few remaining first principles that virtually all of us sort of accept". That's why so many activists "throw around the charge of hate with gay abandon". We'll be asking James about hate, humour, the definition of 'gender', and the lack of ...
On Liberty EP85 | James Allan | Hate Speech And The Definition Of ’gender’
April 11, 2022 07:55 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBThis week On Liberty talks to Prof James Allan of the University of Queensland. In his latest column for Australian Spectator, James explains why the acolytes of irrationality so often turn to accusations of 'hate speech'. As opposing hate is "one of the few remaining first principles that virtually all of us sort of accept". That's why so many activists "throw around the charge of hate with gay abandon". We'll be asking James about hate, humour, the definition of 'gender', and the lack of ...
On Liberty EP84 | Mikayla Novak | 2022 Federal Budget Recap
April 03, 2022 11:10 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MB2022 Federal Budget Recap with Simon Cowan
On Liberty EP83 | Gerd Schröder - Turk | Who Runs Our Universities?
April 01, 2022 08:30 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBWe welcome Murdoch University mathematician Prof Gerd Schröder-Turk, a specialist in nano-geometry and member of the university's board of directors, the Murdoch University Senate. In 2019, Gerd appeared as a key interviewee on the ABC Four Corners investigation "Cash Cows", speaking out about his university's over-reliance on international students. The university's ensuing attempt to remove him from Senate landed them in the Federal Court. We'll be asking Gerd who really runs Australia's u...
On Liberty EP82 | David Adler | The Wider Impact Of War
March 29, 2022 08:10 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused huge amounts of human suffering and has disturbed any complacency about the stability of the ‘international rules-based order’. This has implications not only for Russia’s immediate neighbours and Western European countries. It also has implications for countries such as Israel with whom Russia has had a significant relationship. What impact is the war in Ukraine likely to have on Israel security strategy, a country which also faces instability in its...