Centre for Independent Studies

Have We All Gone Mad? The Snowflake Epidemic

University campuses throughout the West are in the grip of a troubling social phenomenon, now in danger of spreading beyond the ivy walls. Once bastions of intellectual rigour and freedom of thought, universities have become closed-minded and self-censoring, pandering to what appear from the outside to be ridiculously heightened sensitivities and undeserved entitlement.
Safe spaces, trigger warnings and counselling on demand have become commonplace. Teaching staff who speak out are being intimidated, silenced and vilified. Students who choose to think against the mainstream are harassed and ostracised. Has normal teenage angst been institutionally mollycoddled and even pathologised?
Join Dr Tiffany Jenkins author, Keeping their Marbles, Claire Lehmann Founder & Editor of Quillette, Professor Steven Schwartz AM Senior Fellow, The Centre for Independent Studies and Lindsay Shepherd Graduate, Wilfrid Laurier University, for a robust debate.
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Greg Sheridan: A Conversation About God

Conversation with The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan and CIS senior research fellow Peter Kurti on the intellectual, historical and cultural case for belief in God.
Australia and many parts of the West are losing faith in God. And yet the Judeo-Christian tradition has created and underpinned the moral and legal fabric of Western Civilisation.
Where the moral certainties that underpin Australia’s institutions and laws are no longer held by the majority, we – both the believers and non-believers – find ourselves in a fraught situation.
In his new book, God Is Good For You (Allen & Unwin), Greg Sheridan sets out how modern Christians have never worked so hard to make the world a better place at a time when their faith has never been less valued.
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John Howard at the CIS: A Conversation On Culture with Tom Switzer & Jeremy Sammut

Conversation with former Prime Minister John Howard and CIS executive director Tom Switzer on the threats to Australia’s core cultural institutions and beliefs.
Australia is still a free country, but our politically correct times are such that many serious subjects cannot be discussed openly without inspiring condemnation from what John Howard once called “self-appointed cultural dieticians.”
Some of the most enthusiastic proponents of suppressing dissenting opinions come from a younger demographic that has little understanding of history and its lessons.
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Peter Hendy’s Book Launch - Sleepwalking into the future?

Michael Stutchbury, editor-in-chief of the Australian Financial Review, launched at the CIS Peter Hendy’s Why Australia Slept: How the Australian community sleep-walked across the decades jeopardising its abundant natural blessings.
Australia is in danger of sleepwalking into the future. For decades, Australia “slept” through a period of high tariff protection and heavily regulated industries. As a result, by the 1970s its relative living standards were in decline. The situation was saved by significant free-market reforms instituted from the 1980s through to the early 2000s.
Since the later-2000s, however, the country has been resting on its laurels with only minimal reform. There are danger signals everywhere, from the domestic economy to our international relations and the rise of China. Canberra needs a wake-up call.
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Leadership Lunch with Dominic Perrottet - Shaping the NSW Budget

As Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet is focused on financial discipline and making better use of the resources government has, enabling it to improve services and invest in critical infrastructure, while at the same time lowering the tax and regulatory burden.
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Dr Jeremy Sammut’s submission for the enquiry into local adoption

Dr Jeremy Sammut, Senior Research Fellow at the centre, gives his submission during the second public hearing of the House of representatives standing committee on the social policy and legal affairs in Canberra for the enquiry into local adoption.
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Jennifer Buckingham: Education Report Card of A Current Affair

Short intervention of Jennifer Buckingham from the CIS in the Education Card of A Current Affair about Gonski 2.0 and NAPLAN.
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Simon Cowan from CIS on The Drum

Simon Cowan's participation to a discussion panel with Elaine Pearson, Erin Watson-Lynn, Katharine Murphy and Merriden Varrall on the ABC show The Drum.
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Rowan Callick On Xi Jinping’s Audacity

Xi Jinping seeks to entrench his legitimacy as unchallengeable ruler for the next decade or more, by leading the People’s Republic into international leadership, with its governance becoming a global model.
Tom Switzer is joined by Rowan Callick, one of Australia’s leading China watchers, in conversation at The Centre for Independent Studies.
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Peter Costello Breakfast

Peter Costello delivered 12 budgets — 10 of them surpluses — and when he left office, Australia’s economic position was the envy of the world: large surpluses, no debt, high growth and low unemployment.
With his wealth of experience and expertise, Costello tells us what we really need to know about the 2018/19 Budget and Australia’s fiscal direction.
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