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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Lionel Shriver: "I'll write what I damn well please"
September 03, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBThe arts are battered and boxed in by the proliferating dos and don’ts of political correctness, the predations of gotcha identity politics and the hypersensitivities of the #MeToo movement. The John Bonython Lecture is the annual Gala event for the Centre for Independent Studies. Designed to advance the principles of free choice, individual liberty, defend cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas – this year’s lecture was no different. Award winning American author and opinion write...
Lionel Shriver: ”I’ll write what I damn well please”
September 03, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBThe arts are battered and boxed in by the proliferating dos and don’ts of political correctness, the predations of gotcha identity politics and the hypersensitivities of the #MeToo movement. The John Bonython Lecture is the annual Gala event for the Centre for Independent Studies. Designed to advance the principles of free choice, individual liberty, defend cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas – this year’s lecture was no different. Award winning American author and opinion write...
Time to get tougher with China?
August 22, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBChinese President Xi Jinping’s increasingly hardline rule at home and growing assertiveness abroad show few signs of moderating despite recent pushback. If anything, Beijing is becoming more uncompromising — whether it be over the Uighurs in Xinjiang and protests in Hong Kong, or in the South China Sea as its military power grows. Meanwhile, Australian attitudes towards the PRC are hardening. Protests have broken out over Confucius Institutes on university campuses, and there have even been ...
Anastasia Lin: China and human rights
August 15, 2019 00:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBChina uses its trade power as leverage to infiltrate institutions and bully virtually every Western nation. Anastasia Lin knows this firsthand, having grown up in Communist China and faced down the regime as an international human-rights activist. Even after Chinese rights advocates immigrate to the West, the Communist Party uses their family members in China as leverage to silence and intimidate them. The free world should unite to counter Beijing’s abuse. Anastasia Lin, an actress and Miss...
China debate: John Mearsheimer vs Hugh White
August 08, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 79 MBFor years, Australian policymakers have balanced China’s desire for an enhanced regional role with our desire for U.S. protection. However, contrary to the Canberra consensus, there is going to be an intense strategic rivalry between our major trading partner and our major strategic ally. According to John Mearsheimer, one of America’s leading foreign-policy thinkers, Washington will not let China become the dominant military power in the region without putting up a serious fight. In these c...
Australia's choice in a US-China conflict
August 07, 2019 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBAs China converts its growing economic power into military power, it will seek to dominate Asia the way the U.S. has dominated the western hemisphere since the 19th century. Washington will go to great lengths to prevent China from seeking regional hegemony. The tensions over tariffs, Taiwan and Hong Kong are just the beginning of a deteriorating Sino-American relationship. Australian foreign-policy elites seem to think that they can either wish away the intense security competition or that...
Australia’s choice in a US-China conflict
August 07, 2019 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBAs China converts its growing economic power into military power, it will seek to dominate Asia the way the U.S. has dominated the western hemisphere since the 19th century. Washington will go to great lengths to prevent China from seeking regional hegemony. The tensions over tariffs, Taiwan and Hong Kong are just the beginning of a deteriorating Sino-American relationship. Australian foreign-policy elites seem to think that they can either wish away the intense security competition or that...
Racial politics in modern America
July 04, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 75 MBAs our 2019 Helen Hughes lecturer, Michael Ondaatje surveys the increasingly tribal political landscape of modern America. Paying special attention to the toxic racial politics of the Trump era, explain why the dream of a “post-racial” society has died, and how it might be revived. The United States is more divided today than at any time since the Vietnam War era. Society is fracturing along crude identity lines. Anger and grievance are ascendant. Obsession with common enemies overrides conc...
Corporate Virtue Signalling
June 18, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBDr Jeremy Sammut and Maurice Newman – former chairman of the Australian Stock Exchange and columnist with The Australian newspaper – had a conversation about what can be done to stop corporate political meddling and to ensure that business keeps out of politics. Major Australian companies are increasingly involved in contentious political debates – such as Indigenous Recognition – that are not the business of business, and are all in the name of what is known as “Corporate Social Responsibil...
The banking sector after Hayne
June 13, 2019 00:00 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBHow do policymakers and regulators balance restoring trust in our financial system with maintaining the flow of credit? Australia’s banking industry had long had a reputation for being among the world’s safest for investors. Its reputation has been tarnished in recent times after the explosion of scrutiny from the Hayne Royal Commission. Hear from Anna Bligh, Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Banking Association, and Simon Cowan, Research Director at the Centre for Independent Studies.
Post-election challenges for the centre-right
May 22, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBFor sound analysis of the state of conservative politics, please join Sir Bill English (former New Zealand prime minister), Sir Craig Oliver (former director of politics and communications to British prime minister David Cameron and currently a Principal with global CEO advisory firm Teneo) and Jennifer Hewett (national affairs columnist with the Australian Financial Review). Plus, as Britain makes a chaotic exit from the European Union, the Tories are in dire straits, having copped a drubbi...
Forty years after Thatcher’s election
May 01, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBWith Britain’s ruling Conservative Party in disarray, and against the backdrop of a chaotic British exit from the EU, there is a real danger that Britain is lurching to the left. Join us to get an in-depth analysis of the British Conservative crisis and the rise of millennial socialism. Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher led her Conservative Party to victory and set the scene for a wave of privatisation and deregulation across the Anglosphere. From the Keynesian mindset that delivered econom...
Britain after Brexit
April 30, 2019 00:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBPundits all too often call political fiascos “circuses.” But rarely does a political class oblige by providing several rings of entertainment at once. Such has been the British Conservative government’s attempts to leave the European Union by April 12. Meanwhile, the Tories under Prime Minister Theresa May plunge into one melodrama after another. The British Labour Party under socialist Jeremy Corbyn has vacillated and equivocated over Brexit. As for the British public, their trust in Westmi...
Bulletproof Problem Solving - Robert McLean
April 17, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBManaging Partner of McKinsey, Robert McLean AM and Belinda Hutchinson AM, Chancellor of the University of Sydney were at the CIS for the launch of Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything (Wiley). Co-authored by CIS director Robert McLean AM and Charles Conn. "Navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems creatively is the truth test for humans to complement rather than substitute the artificial intelligence of computers. Without much better approaches to teach ...
China and Free Societies
April 11, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBJoin John Lee, former senior advisor to foreign minister Julie Bishop and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington alongside James Laurenceson, acting director of the Australia China Relations Institute for a wide-ranging discussion. Moderated by Sue Windybank, convenor of a new CIS project on China and free societies. For decades, it was widely held that China’s economic progress would create the internal conditions for a more democratic regime that would be more stable and less ...
Elections 2019: Do Third Parties Really Matter?
March 12, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBOne of the major battlegrounds in the upcoming NSW state election will be for the Upper House. After March 23, centre-right minor parties are likely to hold the balance of power. It raises the issue of why third parties matter. As the broader Liberal-National coalition shows increasing signs of splintering, what third party best represents the path to a sound governing and legislative agenda at both state and federal levels? Mark Latham, former federal Labor leader and One Nation candidate,...
Amanda Stoker: The future of Liberalism
February 28, 2019 00:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBQueensland LNP Senator Amanda Stoker visited the CIS for our first Leadership Lunch of 2019. With a strong desire to see Australia return to a country of opportunity based on centre-right beliefs, Senator Stoker hopes to actively engage with Australian’s on social issues and not just on its traditional economic strengths, suggesting that Australia’s current cultural trends reflect the centre-right’s abdication of this responsibility over the last two decades. Senator Stoker represents the yo...
NSW State election preview: Nick Greiner & Bob Carr
February 26, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 65 MBAs NSW prepares for the March 23 election, the “premier state” is in reasonably good condition. Retail spending and business investment are up, the budget is at $1.1 billion surplus and unemployment is at 4.3 per cent. Meanwhile, Sydney’s major public projects — from the new Sydney Metro to the WestConnex underground motorway scheme and Sydney Light Rail — are well underway. And yet opinion polls show that the Coalition and Labor are neck and neck. Why? Are federal factors at play? What dist...
Leeward: A Memoir: Geoffrey Lehmann
January 31, 2019 00:00 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBJoin former High Court justice Michael Kirby and Geoffrey Lehmann for the launch of Leeward: A Memoir (NewSouth) at the CIS. Geoffrey Lehmann has been one of Australia’s leading poets and tax lawyers for several decades. A partner of PwC and chairman of the Australian Tax Research Foundation, he was involved in the design of Australia’s GST and other tax legislation. He was also short-listed for the T S Eliot Prize. His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker and in 2015 his Poems 1957-2013 wo...
Women In Politics
January 31, 2019 00:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBOn Thursday, 31 January our panel of speakers thrashed out the issues surrounding women in politics. Are setting affirmative-action quotas the answer to boosting female representation? Or is a merit-based system of choosing candidates a better option? Are claims of a bullying culture inside the Liberal Party true? Is Labor playing the gender card and identity politics? Who’s had better policies on improving the lives of women? Labor or the Coalition? Ticky Fullerton (moderator), formerly w...
Brendan O'Neill on political correctness and its discontents
December 06, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBJoin Brendan O’Neill, one of Britain’s quirkiest, wittiest and liveliest commentators, in conversation with Jeremy Sammut, head of research at the CIS. The PC brigade continues to entrench itself in the western body politic. Waging war on the past is all the rage. Along with its various campus manifestations such as “safe spaces,” political correctness has become a kind of pathology that damages the capacity to argue and reason. How should we challenge PC? Brendan O’Neill is the editor of S...
Brendan O’Neill on political correctness and its discontents
December 06, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBJoin Brendan O’Neill, one of Britain’s quirkiest, wittiest and liveliest commentators, in conversation with Jeremy Sammut, head of research at the CIS. The PC brigade continues to entrench itself in the western body politic. Waging war on the past is all the rage. Along with its various campus manifestations such as “safe spaces,” political correctness has become a kind of pathology that damages the capacity to argue and reason. How should we challenge PC? Brendan O’Neill is the editor of S...
The Crisis Of Democracy
November 23, 2018 02:45 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBFor generations, we just assumed democracy is fixed and given. However, all across the world, democracies are sick and suffering from a crisis of confidence. Polls show just a third of Australians are satisfied with the way our democracy is working. Public trust in our politicians is at record lows. So, how do we restore faith in democracy? Is there too much corporate and foreign money involved in the electoral process? Is the noisy and relentless media cycle the cause of the problem or the ...
Bill McMahon, an eccentric economic reformer?
November 20, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBWilliam McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics. Was he our worst prime minister? How did he get to the Lodge? Was he the first free-market “dry” politician to take on the orthodoxies of protectionism and economic interventionism? The first biography of our 20th prime minister tells the story of his life and his role in the great debates over Australia’s economic direction in the 1960s and 1970s. A man whose life was coloured by tragedy, comed...
A Democratic wave or Trump triumph? US Mid Terms 2018 Elections Results
November 07, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBUS midterm elections are usually bad for the President’s party, but amid a booming economy this year’s congressional races are more difficult to predict. The jobless rate recently fell to 3.7 per cent (the lowest since 1969) and the stock market (shrugging off the Trump tariffs) keeps surging to new highs. Meanwhile, both Republicans and Democrats will use Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court to fuel enthusiasm and turnout for the midterms. Watch Tom Switzer alongside panelis...
Luke Foley: Values & His Vision for the Labor Party
November 06, 2018 00:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThe NSW Opposition leader visited the CIS to set out an overview of Labor’s vision ahead of the March 2019 state election and how his values of a fair go affect public policy. In 2010 Luke was elected to the Legislative Council of NSW. Since 2015 he has been leader of the NSW Labor Party and Shadow Minister for Western Sydney. Follow the CIS on Twitter @CISOZ or find us on Facebook 'The Centre for Independent Studies' for more updates. cis.org.au
Daniel Hannan - Speech to the CIS’s 2018 JBL Gala Dinner
November 01, 2018 00:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThe vision of the John Bonython Lecture is to inspire Australians to advance principles that constitute a Free Society -- to promote free choice, individual liberty, defend cultural freedom, and the open exchange of ideas. This year's lecture was no different, as we welcomed Daniel Hannan to take the stage which has previously showcased Francis Fukuyama, Rupert Murdoch and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Daniel Hannan is a leading British writer and journalist. After 17 years as a Member of the European Pa...
Daniel Hannan - Conversation to the CIS’s 2018 JBL Gala Dinner
November 01, 2018 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBThe vision of the John Bonython Lecture is to inspire Australians to advance principles that constitute a Free Society -- to promote free choice, individual liberty, defend cultural freedom, and the open exchange of ideas. This year's lecture was no different, as we welcomed Daniel Hannan to take the stage which has previously showcased Francis Fukuyama, Rupert Murdoch and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Daniel Hannan is a leading British writer and journalist. After 17 years as a Member of the European Pa...
Daniel Hannan - Speech to the CIS's 2018 JBL Gala Dinner
November 01, 2018 00:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThe vision of the John Bonython Lecture is to inspire Australians to advance principles that constitute a Free Society -- to promote free choice, individual liberty, defend cultural freedom, and the open exchange of ideas. This year's lecture was no different, as we welcomed Daniel Hannan to take the stage which has previously showcased Francis Fukuyama, Rupert Murdoch and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Daniel Hannan is a leading British writer and journalist. After 17 years as a Member of the European Pa...
Daniel Hannan - Conversation to the CIS's 2018 JBL Gala Dinner
November 01, 2018 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBThe vision of the John Bonython Lecture is to inspire Australians to advance principles that constitute a Free Society -- to promote free choice, individual liberty, defend cultural freedom, and the open exchange of ideas. This year's lecture was no different, as we welcomed Daniel Hannan to take the stage which has previously showcased Francis Fukuyama, Rupert Murdoch and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Daniel Hannan is a leading British writer and journalist. After 17 years as a Member of the European Pa...
The Manchurian Campus? Threats to Free Speech in Higher Education with The Hon. Rob Stokes MP
October 22, 2018 00:00 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBAmidst the debate about Chinese influence in Australia, NSW Minister for Education, the Hon. Rob Stokes MP, sat down with CIS Executive Director, Tom Switzer to discuss a range of issues that are crucial to the future of free speech in Australian universities. Most discussion of threats to free speech in Australian universities focuses on the impact of identity politics and political correctness. Yet a bigger threat to free speech on Australian campuses may be the heavy reliance of the multi...
James Bartholomew on Millennials’ ignorance of Communism
October 10, 2018 00:00 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBThere is a natural impulse in people to bring the rich and powerful down - to create equality and a better, more decent society. The impulse was drowned out for the latter part of the 20th century by knowledge in the West of how horribly wrong the Communist experiments had gone. However, new generations are growing up knowing little or nothing about what happened. They have no intellectual defence against the apparent idealism of Marxist thought and are increasingly tempted to accept it. Jam...
James Bartholomew on Millennials' ignorance of Communism
October 10, 2018 00:00 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBThere is a natural impulse in people to bring the rich and powerful down - to create equality and a better, more decent society. The impulse was drowned out for the latter part of the 20th century by knowledge in the West of how horribly wrong the Communist experiments had gone. However, new generations are growing up knowing little or nothing about what happened. They have no intellectual defence against the apparent idealism of Marxist thought and are increasingly tempted to accept it. Jam...
Does Inequality Matter?
October 03, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBA recent Productivity Commission report, Rising Inequality? A stocktake of the evidence, shows that although inequality has risen, Australia retains a high degree of economic mobility. With that, our panel - Jonathan Coppel, Melinda Cilento, Simon Cowan and Robert Carling - thrashed out the issues and sought to answer the question: Does inequality matter? ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom ...
Australia, Brexit, and Populism - Andrew Neil
September 06, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBAndrew Neil is the presenter of Daily Politics, This Week (the BBC’s leading political television shows), and is recognised as one of Britain’s most distinguished broadcasters and political journalists. Join Andrew Neil in conversation with CIS executive director Tom Switzer, about the state of politics in Australia, where political instability isn't really that bad, about the political landscape in Britain and how the prospect of a no deal Brexit is looming closer. ____________________ T...
Tony Abbott on the state of Australia's political landscape
August 27, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBTumultuous events in Canberra during the course of the last week, led to a change of Prime Ministers. Join Tony Abbott as he delivers his views on the current state of the Liberal Party, the potential of the new government announced and a broader discussion on the state of Australia’s political landscape. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas. CIS encourages deb...
Tony Abbott on the state of Australia’s political landscape
August 27, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBTumultuous events in Canberra during the course of the last week, led to a change of Prime Ministers. Join Tony Abbott as he delivers his views on the current state of the Liberal Party, the potential of the new government announced and a broader discussion on the state of Australia’s political landscape. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas. CIS encourages deb...
Have We All Gone Mad? The Snowflake Epidemic
August 16, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBUniversity campuses throughout the West are in the grip of a troubling social phenomenon, now in danger of spreading beyond the ivy walls. Once bastions of intellectual rigour and freedom of thought, universities have become closed-minded and self-censoring, pandering to what appear from the outside to be ridiculously heightened sensitivities and undeserved entitlement. Safe spaces, trigger warnings and counselling on demand have become commonplace. Teaching staff who speak out are being int...
Greg Sheridan: A Conversation About God
August 02, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBConversation with The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan and CIS senior research fellow Peter Kurti on the intellectual, historical and cultural case for belief in God. Australia and many parts of the West are losing faith in God. And yet the Judeo-Christian tradition has created and underpinned the moral and legal fabric of Western Civilisation. Where the moral certainties that underpin Australia’s institutions and laws are no longer held by the majority, we – both the believers and...
John Howard at the CIS: A Conversation On Culture with Tom Switzer & Jeremy Sammut
July 10, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBConversation with former Prime Minister John Howard and CIS executive director Tom Switzer on the threats to Australia’s core cultural institutions and beliefs. Australia is still a free country, but our politically correct times are such that many serious subjects cannot be discussed openly without inspiring condemnation from what John Howard once called “self-appointed cultural dieticians.” Some of the most enthusiastic proponents of suppressing dissenting opinions come from a younger dem...
Peter Hendy's Book Launch - Sleepwalking into the future?
June 27, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBMichael Stutchbury, editor-in-chief of the Australian Financial Review, launched at the CIS Peter Hendy’s Why Australia Slept: How the Australian community sleep-walked across the decades jeopardising its abundant natural blessings. Australia is in danger of sleepwalking into the future. For decades, Australia “slept” through a period of high tariff protection and heavily regulated industries. As a result, by the 1970s its relative living standards were in decline. The situation was saved by...
Peter Hendy’s Book Launch - Sleepwalking into the future?
June 27, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBMichael Stutchbury, editor-in-chief of the Australian Financial Review, launched at the CIS Peter Hendy’s Why Australia Slept: How the Australian community sleep-walked across the decades jeopardising its abundant natural blessings. Australia is in danger of sleepwalking into the future. For decades, Australia “slept” through a period of high tariff protection and heavily regulated industries. As a result, by the 1970s its relative living standards were in decline. The situation was saved by...
Leadership Lunch with Dominic Perrottet - Shaping the NSW Budget
May 30, 2018 00:00 - 44 minutes - 60.8 MBAs Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet is focused on financial discipline and making better use of the resources government has, enabling it to improve services and invest in critical infrastructure, while at the same time lowering the tax and regulatory burden. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas. CIS encourages debate among leading academics, politicians, media and t...
Dr Jeremy Sammut’s submission for the enquiry into local adoption
May 29, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBDr Jeremy Sammut, Senior Research Fellow at the centre, gives his submission during the second public hearing of the House of representatives standing committee on the social policy and legal affairs in Canberra for the enquiry into local adoption. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas. CIS encourages debate among leading academics, politicians, media and the publ...
Dr Jeremy Sammut's submission for the enquiry into local adoption
May 29, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBDr Jeremy Sammut, Senior Research Fellow at the centre, gives his submission during the second public hearing of the House of representatives standing committee on the social policy and legal affairs in Canberra for the enquiry into local adoption. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas. CIS encourages debate among leading academics, politicians, media and the publ...
Simon Cowan from CIS on The Drum
May 23, 2018 00:00 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBSimon Cowan's participation to a discussion panel with Elaine Pearson, Erin Watson-Lynn, Katharine Murphy and Merriden Varrall on the ABC show The Drum. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom 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 c...
Jennifer Buckingham: Education Report Card of A Current Affair
May 23, 2018 00:00 - 1 minute - 2.49 MBShort intervention of Jennifer Buckingham from the CIS in the Education Card of A Current Affair about Gonski 2.0 and NAPLAN. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom 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 continue to prosper into...
Rowan Callick On Xi Jinping's Audacity
May 17, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBXi Jinping seeks to entrench his legitimacy as unchallengeable ruler for the next decade or more, by leading the People’s Republic into international leadership, with its governance becoming a global model. Tom Switzer is joined by Rowan Callick, one of Australia’s leading China watchers, in conversation at The Centre for Independent Studies. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open ...
Rowan Callick On Xi Jinping’s Audacity
May 17, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBXi Jinping seeks to entrench his legitimacy as unchallengeable ruler for the next decade or more, by leading the People’s Republic into international leadership, with its governance becoming a global model. Tom Switzer is joined by Rowan Callick, one of Australia’s leading China watchers, in conversation at The Centre for Independent Studies. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open ...
Peter Costello Breakfast
May 14, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBPeter Costello delivered 12 budgets — 10 of them surpluses — and when he left office, Australia’s economic position was the envy of the world: large surpluses, no debt, high growth and low unemployment. With his wealth of experience and expertise, Costello tells us what we really need to know about the 2018/19 Budget and Australia’s fiscal direction. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and th...