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24. On Liberty | Gene Tunny | Red Tape And Regulation Hurt Economic Growth

On Liberty this week, Thursday, 17 September, we welcome Gene Tunny, Founder and Director of Adept Economics. Tunny, with co-author Ben Scott, has a forthcoming CIS paper: Rationalising Regulation: Helping the economy recover from the corona crisis.
Regulatory constraints are impeding business growth and their removal or adjustment would yield large economic benefits. The relaxation of a range of restrictions to respond to the pandemic—e.g. around supermarket delivery times and the availability of liquor for takeaway—suggests governments can move quickly to eliminate or improve regulations.
Join in the conversation live as host Salvatore Babones asks Gene what regulation is necessary to protect public health? What regulations should be lifted to assist the many struggling business owners? And what regulation amendments would have the biggest impact to the Australian economy?
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23. On Liberty | Greg Lindsay | Founder Of CIS, Why I created a think tank

On the show this week, Thursday, 10 September, we welcome founder of CIS Greg Lindsay AO.
From a backyard shed in Pennant Hills to shop-top above Uncle Pete’s Toys in St Leonards and now Macquarie Street in Sydney's CBD, Greg built the CIS from a one-man operation into the self-sustaining institute it is today. His goal throughout was to "make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue," as Friedrich Hayek said we must.
Join us live, to hear Greg's story and ask your own questions about how he turned a timeless idea into one of Australia's leading think tanks.
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22. On Liberty | Dr Chin Jin | Will We See A Democratic China In Our Lifetime?

On the show this week, Thursday, 3 September, we are joined by Dr Chin Jin, president of the Federation for a Democratic China. Dr Jin will discuss the prospects for democracy in China today.
Chin is a member of the "1989 generation" of Tiananmen refugees in Australia and a longtime activist in the China democracy movement. He will explain how the tianshi, dili, and renhe of social change are all lining up for a transformation of China.
Is Xi Jinping's repression working? Or is it only bringing closer the day when the Chinese people will stand up to demand a voice in their own government? Join us live tomorrow at 10 am AEST to hear what Dr Chin Jin has to say.
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21. On Liberty | Peter Kurti | Cancel Culture Will Divide Us

On Liberty, host Salvatore Babones speaks with Peter Kurti. Peter is Director of Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program at the Centre for Independent Studies. In his recent paper, he warns that the drive to eradicate offensive words, images, and opinions from the public square is rapidly displacing liberal commitments to freedom of speech.
‘Cancel culture’ campaigns in Australia are intended to erase elements of our history and to deny the record of those who helped found this country. The impulse to impose a revised interpretation of the past poses a danger that threatens to corrode civility, destroy civic trust, and fuel community discord.
Join us as we discuss Australia's cancel culture.
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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 the future.

20. On Liberty | Claire Lehmann | How The Pandemic Has Accelerated Trends

On the On Liberty show this week, host Salvatore Babones will speak with Claire Lehmann. Claire is Australian journalist and the founding editor of Quillette.
Covid-19 has vastly accelerated the electronic communication trends that were already occurring. The adoption of digital business, away from bricks and mortar is becoming second nature. Claire will discuss how these changes may, and already have, impacted schools and online businesses.
As the world pivots to this new reality, we'll discuss what these online interactions means for education, for people's social lives (and events). Claire and Salvatore will discuss how all of these trends have wider implications for culture, politics and liberty.

19. On Liberty | Andrew Norton | Should Australia Increase University Places?

"Although I don’t support the Tehan plan to steer student demand to ‘national priority’ fields, from day one I have supported increasing the number of student places." Andrew Norton
On episode.19, host Salvatore Babones will speak with Andrew Norton, co-founder of CIS Liberty & Society and Professor of Higher Education at the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods.
New fee reforms are sending mixed signals to students and the universities that are supposed to educate them. Although the government has set clear teaching priorities, universities may be incentivised to forgo government funding altogether for some fields and offer places based solely on students' contributions. While the coronavirus recession will certainly create more demand for university places, will universities have the right incentives to offer the supply?
Host Salvatore Babones will ask Andrew to give an overview of his recent articles on the government's proposed university fee reforms.

18. On Liberty | Oliver Hartwich | Will The Recovery Be Worse Than The Disease For New Zealand

On the show, host Salvatore Babones will speak with Dr Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director of fellow free-market think tank The New Zealand Initiative in Wellington.
New Zealand is envied for its zero community cases of Covid-19, but the economy is hurting and the current hard border closure is controversial. Right now, all focus is on the present. The upcoming election obscures the political horizon, while, beating the virus has become the hallmark of the Prime Minister’s reputation.
Join us for episode.18 of On Liberty as we ask how did NZ got through Covid? What kind of leader Jacinda Ardern is? How their economy is faring? and where the challenges lay for NZ in the coming years?

17. On Liberty Extra | Warren Mundine | Closing The Gap | Jacinta Price

Join us for On Liberty Extra a one-off live webinar hosted by CIS Indigenous program director, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. In this webinar, Jacinta will speak with Nyunggai Warren Mundine, Chairman and Managing Director of Nyungga Black Group, political strategist and author of recent CIS paper ‘It’s the economy, Stupid; economic participation is the only way to close the gap’.
Last week the federal government announced sweeping changes in relation to Closing the gap. In doing so, they have committed to setting unrealistic targets, while also omitting to address any targets for the reduction of violence against Indigenous women and children. In his recent paper: Warren addresses the clear gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. He writes, the gap exists for one reason, and one reason only - many indigenous people do not participate in the economy. The key areas of economic participation are having a job and setting up a business. Both depend on commerce and private enterprise.
Watch online and join the conversation with Jacinta as she raises the question how can we develop an indigenous policy toward economic participation? What is required from governments to lessen the gap? And why we have failed time and time again in the protection of our indigenous and most vulnerable?

Do schools need a transformation? | Pasi Sahlberg, Greg Ashman & Jordan Baker | Events at CIS

A discussion between leading experts on the future of Australian education. Pasi Sahlberg and Greg Ashman, two of Australia’s leading voices in education, to be moderated by respected journalist Jordan Baker, Education Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
In 2020 Covid-19 has rocked education systems in Australia and around the world. Rather than attend schools in-person, many students were learning from home — placing new pressures on teachers and schools. Along with these new challenges are competing visions about priorities and practices of schooling in a rapidly changing world.
Does a business-as-usual approach risk fail to learn from the experience? What’s important in schooling for the future? Do we have to rethink teaching, curriculum, and assessment for the 21st century?

How to handle China | Tony Abbott & Bob Carr | Events at CIS

Security trumps prosperity. China, Australia, the US and the Asia-Pacific region. Many people think Canberra can still finesse the US-China dilemma and sit on the sidelines and enjoy the best of both worlds: unconstrained trade with China under the US security umbrella. Are those days over?
Has China’s persistent cyber-espionage, its growing intimidation of Hong Kong and Taiwan, its aggressive build-up of military outposts beyond its border in the South China Sea – has all this forced Australia into Washington’s anti-China coalition? How do we respond to Beijing’s threat to economically bully Australia?
Or are doubts about American staying power in Asia real? Why would a powerful China accept US-led military forces operating in its backyard? If Beijing tries to dominate Asia, are we confident that the Americans have our back? What are the risks involved in further antagonising our largest trade partner?
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