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Despite the ever-escalating cost of health posing severe fiscal sustainability challenges, health reform has been dumped even more firmly in the politically too-hard basket since the ‘Mediscare’ federal election. A politically-feasible reform strategy is required to catalyse much-needed innovation in the health sector and deliver more cost-effective healthcare. Terry Barnes, health consultant and...

Despite the ever-escalating cost of health posing severe fiscal sustainability challenges, health reform has been dumped even more firmly in the politically too-hard basket since the ‘Mediscare’ federal election. A politically-feasible reform strategy is required to catalyse much-needed innovation in the health sector and deliver more cost-effective healthcare. Jeremy Sammut, fellow researcher at...

Tim Wilson MP is the Federal Liberal Member for Goldstein in Victoria. He is well known as Australia’s former "Freedom Commissioner" and is a proud defender of universal, individual human rights. He has worked with government to reform laws to stop and prevent terrorism, improve economic opportunities for Indigenous Australians, and support marginalised communities. He is a passionate advocate for...

Dr David Kilcullen and Tom Switzer in conversation following the CIS Lighthouse Lecture 'Terror Challenges in the 21st Century'. David Kilcullen is a world renowned terror expert and also took questions from the floor. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas. CIS encourage...

Dr David Kilcullen delivers a timely Centre for Independent Studies Lighthouse Lecture on the alarming topic of increasing global terror, and provides both global and local comments on how we can adapt to the ‘new normal’. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas. CIS encou...

Jennifer Buckingham (fellow researcher at the CIS, Paul McDermott, Glenn & Kiriana White, and Noel Pearson (Founder and Co-chair of Good to Great Schools Australia) all outlined the success of Direct Instruction teaching method in lifting the education levels of school children. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defen...

Dr Jennifer Buckingham, fellow researcher at the CIS, outlined the success of Direct Instruction teaching method in lifting the education levels of school children. ____________________ 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 a...

Glenn & Kiriana White outlined the success of Direct Instruction teaching method in lifting the education levels of school children. ____________________ 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 mak...

Noel Pearson (Founder and Co-chair of Good to Great Schools Australia) and Phyllis Yunkaporta both outline the success of Direct Instruction teaching method in lifting the education levels of school children in Indigenous communities. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open exchange of idea...

The current GST carve-up does not reward political reform, The Hon. Dominic Perrottet MP, NSW Minister for Finance, Services and Property said at the CIS. Speaking at the Centre for Independent Studies, Mr Perrottet said that under the principle of horizontal fiscal equalisation - where all citizens can expect to have access to equal standards of government services - non-reforming states are bein...

Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Rod Sims speaks about why privatisation should be done for efficiency, not for money windfalls. ____________________ 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...

Qantas boss Alan Joyce talks about market freedom, innovation and how we will soon have direct flights from Sydney to London. ____________________ 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...

In partnership with the Menzies Research Centre, Henry Olsen joined us to speak on Trump, Brexit and the Forgotten People. He explained how this constituency drove Donald Trump to become the Republican Party Presidential nominee, pushed Britain out of Europe and are disrupting the status quo around the globe. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and in...

Hot off the US convention and campaign trail, America’s favourite living wit and best-selling author PJ O’Rourke headed to Sydney to deliver his Dangerous State of the Nation talk at the Sydney Opera House in collaboration with CIS. ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas....

The first Helen Hughes Talk for Emerging Thinkers allowed a prominent emerging thinker to discuss a pertinent social or economic policy issue of national importance. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is a Walpiri/Celtic woman who grew up in Alice Springs. In 2015, Jacinta was elected into Alice Springs’ Town Council and is deeply involved within her community as well as remote communities of the Northern T...

Ian Narev, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Bank Group, delivers a Leadership Lunch address at the CIS outlining that if banks do not innovate, they "will be toast". ____________________ 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 l...

From the rise and fall of the British and American Empires, to the killer apps that Western cultures have used to create prosperity, to a financial history of the world, Niall Ferguson writes and broadcasts about enormous topics, and brings them to life for contemporary audiences. A distinguished historian, prolific commentator on current politics and economics who readily engages with controversi...

Internationally renowned activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali spoke at the Centre for Independent Studies about her book, Heretic. ____________________ 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...