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Taxing Tobacco into Illegality: how split responsibilities and high excise created Australia’s tobacco wars

Paper by PROF SINCLAIR DAVIDSON

Tip from a friend: Australia’s economy is in a slow race to ruin

Oped by MICHAEL STUTCHBURY in The Australian

Why the war on wokeness is actually killing conservatives in Australia

Oped by SIMON COWAN in The Canberra Times

Keeping Budgets on the Rails: Rules for Fiscal Responsibility

Paper by ROBERT CARLING

A good budget means setting some rules and adhering to them

Oped by ROBERT CARLING and SIMON COWAN in the Canberra Times

Political legitimacy, harm protections and our freedoms

Paper by DR PAUL TAYLOR

Tolerance ends where darkest hatred begins

Oped by PETER KURTI in The Daily Telegraph

The Unworkable Solution: An Economic Assessment of a Cashflow Tax for Australia

Paper by PROF SINCLAIR DAVIDSON

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CIS Nanny State Awards for 2025

Peter Kurti · 11 December 2025

Reframing an Ancient Hatred: the intersection of left-wing antisemitism and anti-Zionism

Julie Claridge · 11 December 2025

‘NIMBYism is a cancer’: Bragg outlines housing policy vision with Peter Tulip & Michael Stutchbury

Andrew Bragg · 12 December 2025

School child reading book

Turning up a first step to success

Trisha Jha · 04 December 2025

Politics of Pressure: how government intervention left us short of gas

Grahame Campbell · 04 December 2025

Black market lit up by backfiring ciggies tax

Michael Stutchbury · 02 December 2025