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How To Fix Super | Events at CIS

If there is one thing that almost everyone agrees on, it is that not everything is super with Superannuation.
Some call for greater flexibility in the super system, and others say that the system is being rorted by the rich and the rules need to be tightened. Yet the problems and solutions on each side of the debate seem radically different. One side says that we need more super, the other side says we need to abandon the proposed increase in the compulsory super rate. One side says that super governance is dominated by vested interests, particularly the unions, while the other points out that industry super has massively outperformed retail funds.
Should the super guarantee continue to increase to 12%? Is super fit for purpose? Well, it all depends on who you ask. Former CIS researcher Dr Stephen Kirchner called superannuation “Libertarianism Paternalism without the libertarianism”, while CIS Research Director Simon Cowan argues super that super is a bad deal for millennials.
This webinar, How to fix super, involved speakers James Pawluk, Executive Director, Superannuation & Universal Ownership at the McKell Institute and Andrew Bragg, Liberal Senator for New South Wales gave their firm views of the problems with Super and its future direction. CIS Director of Research Simon Cowan, moderated the conversation and raised the question, how will super affect the rise and fall of Australian taxes?
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Andrew Bragg is a Liberal Senator for New South Wales. Prior to his election to Federal Parliament in 2019, Andrew was an author and accountant. Andrew started his career as an accountant at Ernst & Young and went on to work in senior roles at the Financial Services Council and the Business Council of Australia. Pick up Andrew's new book Bad Egg: How to fix super (Connor Court) here.
James Pawluk is Executive Director, Superannuation & Universal Ownership at the McKell Institute, having previously been its founding Victorian Executive Director. Prior to joining the Institute, James was Manager of Business Development for Australia Post. James has also served as Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to various Federal Cabinet Ministers with experience across areas such as government service delivery, digital transformation, budget processes, policing and customs.
Simon Cowan is Research Director at the CIS. Simon is also Director of the CIS TARGET30 program that aims to reduce government spending to less than 30% of GDP over the next 10 years. He is a leading media commentator on policy and politics, frequently appearing on the Sky network, ABC television and commercial radio. Simon is a regular columnist for The Canberra Times.
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Free thought is burning | Dave Rubin | Conversations at CIS

The debate over cancel culture and the culture wars continues to rage. CIS welcomes back former guest Dave Rubin. Policy analyst, Monica Wilkie, turned the microphone on Dave to get his take on cancel culture, liberalism, free speech and, of course, the upcoming US presidential election.
Dave is the host of the incredibly popular YouTube show The Rubin Report. A self-described classical liberal, Dave's first book entitled Don't Burn this Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason (McClelland & Stewart) was released in April 2020. He has been a consistent voice in the fight for freedom of speech and has interviewed some of the most influential and erudite thinkers on topics ranging from history to politics and culture.
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16. On Liberty | Janet Albrechtsen | Saving The Marketplace Of Ideas

On Liberty returns, for season 2, with Janet Albrechtsen.
In her latest column for The Australian, she warns us to be on our guard against "a new generation of self-appointed cultural dietitians" who are determined to tell us what cultural fare we can and can't consume.
Albrechtsen writes that "intolerance delivers a triple whammy. First, it hinders our ability to sift the good ideas from the bad ones. Second, by shutting down robust debates, cancel culture will create unhinged, self-professed martyrs who thrive in online echo chambers, nurturing their hatred and bigotry far away from logical argument. And finally, the practitioners of cancel culture will stoke deep resentments that can easily be exploited by leaders who may not be defenders of a truly liberal democracy."
Join us, to discuss cancel culture at home and abroad. We'll ask Janet Albrechtsen about cancel culture from the days of Aesop's Fables to the aftermath of Harry Potter, with a stop-over in Manhattan to talk about Harper's, New York magazine and the New York Times. Can the modern liberal democratic project succeed?
Read Janet's column here- https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/how-to-cancel-cancel-culture/news-story/817b19fb7fe28f0dd6c88f20d5941399
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We Must Defend Freedom Of Speech:Lionel Shriver & Brendan O’Neill

Lionel Shriver and Brendan O'Neill sit down with CIS fellow Monica Wilkie for The Woke Inquisition, an online discussion on the recent race crisis, protests in the UK, the BLM movement and cancel culture.
Everything from The Golden Girls to brown rice is now ‘problematic’ as activists seek to erase anything ‘offensive.’ Is this akin to past censorious movements when books were burnt, and statues toppled or is this something different?
We now see shows like The Simpsons announcing they will not allow white voice actors to voice non-white characters. Is the end of fiction rapidly approaching? With statues, beloved children’s authors, and beer in the firing line will there be anything left after this latest round of cancellations?
Brendan O’Neill is the editor of Spiked Online and a former CIS scholar in residence. He is author of A Duty to Offend (2015) and Anti-Woke (2018).
Lionel Shriver is author of numerous international bestseller novels and a columnist with The Spectator in London. Lionel was recently in Australia for CIS as our 2019 Annual Lecture & Dinner.
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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.
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15. On Liberty Glenn Fahey: JobKeeper Or RecoveryPreventer

On Liberty, host Salvatore Babones speaks with Glenn Fahey. Glenn is Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, working across economics and education programs. In his recent article at The Spectator Australia, he warns that the government’s centrepiece JobSeeker and JobKeeper packages risk becoming RecoveryPreventers.
Government can’t prop up the country indefinitely nor can it spend Australia into prosperity. As lockdown restrictions unwind, so too must the associated emergency measures. The defining challenge facing policymakers is how to taper off unsustainable income support without sinking the economy.
Join us as we discuss Australia's welfare policy response to the pandemic. We will ask Glenn: what options are government now faced with? What are the immediate threats to Australia emerging from the pandemic? And, most importantly, what will aid Australia to move from pandemic to prosperity?

NSW After the Pandemic | Gladys Berejiklian | Events at CIS

In the battle of ideas, the Centre for Independent Studies is like a munitions factory, churning out the material to push the trench line a few kilometres forward. The spiritual reward for researchers, analysts and scholars is a chance to see their policy ideas put into policy practice. Another payoff for producing successful ideas is often access and influence.
At the beginning of the year, we invited the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to address a CIS lunch at our Macquarie Street office. However, the coronavirus crisis derailed plans.

14. On Liberty Scott Prasser- Trying Times, Federal Politics In An Age Of Political Outrage

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was under fire for his handling of the bushfires, floods and sports funding scandals. Yet, on the eve of the federal Eden-Monaro by-election, he enjoys high approval ratings while the Coalition edges narrowly ahead in national approval. So the question is, how has the Morrison Government managed this pandemic-endued crisis and will it lead us back to prosperity? What lessons from history can we learn? Indeed, is Morrison the clever leader like Menzies who by his principles, political skills, and unrelenting effort, resisted some of the unwise popular orthodoxies of his time, promoted considerable change and founded modern Australia? Or is Morrison a sheep in sheep’s clothing, leading a government of least resistance to the incessant demands now being made on modern government every day?
Join us for Episode 14 of On Liberty this morning at 10 am AEST. Host Salvatore Babones will welcome Scott Prasser, author of forthcoming title Robert Menzies: Man or Myth (Connor Court). We'll take a look back in history to Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, Sir Robert Menzies, who led the party that he founded, the Liberal Party into Government, from 1949 to 1966 winning seven successful elections in a row.
Scott has worked in senior policy and advisory roles in state and federal government public service. From 2013 to 2019 he was Senior Adviser to three federal cabinet ministers covering portfolios of education and training, and regional health, sport and decentralisation and has published on the Howard Government, Liberal-National party politics and royal commissions.

13. On Liberty James Allan: Cancel Culture Knows No Limits

"It is becoming clear that cancel culture knows no limits. Old, incredibly valuable pieties at the heart of liberalism are being eroded."James Allan
On the show this week Salvatore Babones hosts James Allan, Garrick professor of law at the University of Queensland. In his recent article in The Australian, Allan notes how online twitter mobs don't argue against an opinion or view, rather argue against your view being able to exist at all.
The offence-givers and offence-takers imagine themselves as enemies. Cancellation culture is a false hope that we can erase those we don’t like. We'll discuss the dangerous ramifications of being caught up in this culture, the capture of universities and whether it's all about populism vs democracy.

12. On Liberty Jennifer Buckingham: Five From Five Update

We are pleased to have Dr Jennifer Buckingham to On Liberty. Jennifer is director of strategy and senior research fellow at MultiLit, and the founder and director of the Five from Five project. As a former senior research fellow, now CIS board member, Jennifer has been a integral part of the CIS Education program.
Launched five years ago, the Five from Five project was developed with the objective of promoting effective, evidence-based reading instruction, by providing free resources to teachers, principals and parents and advocating for evidence-based policy with politicians and policy makers.
Host Salvatore Babones will ask, what has been achieved in the five years of Five from Five reading project. What still needs improvement? And, most importantly, we'll ask what the impact of pandemic induced school closures means for students learning, especially for kids from disadvantaged backgrounds?

NSW After The Pandemic | Dominic Perrottet | Events at CIS

New South Wales Treasurer Dominic Perrottet joins CIS research director Simon Cowan to discuss the aftermath of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
The treasurer discusses the New South Wales response to the pandemic, particularly from an economic perspective. Most importantly he details the plan for recovery, emphasising the need for businesses to lead the growth and the importance of generating jobs.
We question the post-pandemic debt and deficit, and the effect this will have on future generations. Perrottet looks towards the future and the New South Wales budget, discussing his plan for fiscal and economic reforms to the state and the Federation.
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