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Does Western Civilisation Have a Future?

Wolfgang Kasper · February 19, 2019 · PP17

The question, whether our civilisation has a future, will sound preposterous to many. Has Western civilisation not overcome many a …
The Case for a New Australian Settlement: Ruminations of an Inveterate Economist

Wolfgang Kasper · June 26, 2015 · OP141

Australia needs a cultural counter-revolution that appeals to the traditional Australian spirit of self-reliance and can-do optimism – a new …
Australia’s Future in the Balance: Overcoming Antagonism & Reigniting Enterprise & Prosperity

Wolfgang Kasper, Paul Kelly · June 25, 2015

Following economic reforms that began in 1983 and petered out around 2003, Australians enjoyed the greatest advance in their living …
Radical Surgery: The Only Cure for New South Wales Hospitals

Wolfgang Kasper · January 27, 2009 · PM91

NSW public hospitals are plagued by massive systemic failures, as diagnosed in the Garling report. At the same time, hospital …
Make Poverty History: Tackle Corruption

Wolfgang Kasper · January 19, 2006 · IA67

The results of the latest international survey of corruption reveal huge international differences. Poor countries tend to be more corrupt …
In Defence of Secure Property Rights, 2nd revised edition

Wolfgang Kasper · October 19, 2004 · OP92

Secure private property rights are vital to the development of a growing, healthy Australian economy. Property rights allow owners to …
A Voluntary Free Trade Alliance: How to Overcome Hurdles in the Path of Traders and Investors

Wolfgang Kasper · September 9, 2004 · IA52

This paper outlines and endorses a new initiative for a Global Free Trade Alliance that would promote free exchanges between …
In Defence of Secure Property Rights

Wolfgang Kasper · June 3, 2003 · OP84

Secure private property rights are vital to the development of a growing, healthy Australian economy. Property rights allow owners to …
Sustainable Immigration and Cultural Integration

Wolfgang Kasper · August 15, 2002 · PM55

In the report, entitled Sustainable Immigration and Cultural Integration, Professor Kasper outlines the benefits of past migration. He points out …
Towards Racial Harmony: A New Constitution for Fiji

Wolfgang Kasper · March 5, 2001 · IA19

Repeated ‘constitutional accidents’ have shown that Fiji’s internal stability, security, peace and prosperity cannot be guaranteed by the centralisation of …

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Does Western Civilisation Have a Future?
Wolfgang Kasper · February 22, 2019 · Ideas@TheCentre

Western civilisation, built on a foundation of individual freedom, rational, fact-based thinking and democracy, has been a major driver of …
Half a cheer for hospital reform
Wolfgang Kasper · March 9, 2010

The most telling criticism of the federal government’s public hospital reform plan is that it overpromises and under-delivers. It does …
Time to use a chainsaw on a critically ill patient
Wolfgang Kasper · January 29, 2009

Our hospitals are not safe. More preventable deaths occur in hospitals than on our roads. Because of bed shortages, bed-ridden …
Councils must have real clout
Wolfgang Kasper · April 4, 2006

Amid all the talk of tax cuts, Australians should gird themselves for hefty hikes in local taxes. The citizens of …
Political bad habits die hard
Wolfgang Kasper · February 28, 2006 · The Australian Financial Review

Will the Australian government ever learn that meddling in markets and political favouritism is politically dangerous, economically harmful and arrogant? …
Single-desk philosophy reaps what it sows
Wolfgang Kasper · February 10, 2006 · The Australian Financial Review

Economists have long known that business monopolies and the corrupt abuse of political power are inseparable twins. Therefore, it is …
Let’s fix foreign aid fiasco
Wolfgang Kasper · January 19, 2006 · The Australian

Corruption was long accepted simply as fate. In the West, people began to fight the abuse of political power for …
Handouts won’t cure poverty
Wolfgang Kasper · October 11, 2005 · The Australian Financial Review

The Australian government has joined the turn-of-millennium drive to eliminate extreme Third World poverty a laudable objective. However, John Howard …
John Locke, philosopher of distinction
Wolfgang Kasper · October 29, 2004 · The Australian Financial Review

On Thursday some of us commemorated the 300th anniversary of the death of John Locke, the man whose ideas on …
Land use rules erode freedom
Wolfgang Kasper · September 16, 2004 · The West Australian

Environmental regulations threaten constitutional rights dating back to Magna Carta, Wolfgang Kasper argues. Unease over the security of private property …

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