An emerging challenge to good government, liberal democracy and the Australian way of life is the increasing ‘politicisation’ of our system of government. The author of this paper argues that until the breadth and depth of ‘politicisation’ is recognised, it can never be properly addressed.

This paper is a further developed version of the author’s submission to the Treasury consultation on the federal government’s Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions proposal, lodged in April 2023. The proposal is to add to the existing superannuation tax system a total balance threshold of $3 million, beyond which individuals would be subject to an additional...

This report is the first in a series of CIS research papers focusing on intergenerational political attitudes and electoral behaviour. The report investigates the extent to which age is a factor in determining a first preference vote for Australia’s major centre-right political parties - the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Party of Australia...

Australia’s young people deserve to have their interests considered in Australian policy-making. In the Covid era, many policies were defended on the basis that they would help those vulnerable to Covid, mainly the elderly. In this report, the author attempts to put a price tag on Covid-era policies, from the perspective of Australia’s youth.

Liberal democracy is under threat from tech platforms, identity politics and hostile foreign powers, such as China or Russia. This paper argues that Western liberal democracies lack resilience - across the West, economic models are in disarray, while social models engender cultural fragmentation, and politics is breeding social polarisation.