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Feed your intelligence with policy research and commentary designed to enhance our liberal democracy. Join Michael Stutchbury and guests every Thursday for your 10 minute briefing. Michael Stutchbury is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Australian Financial Review, a role he held from 2011 until 2024, when he became the masthead's Editor-at-Large. With a career in journalism spanning several decades, and including a stint as a Washington correspondent, he is widely respected for his expertise in economic and public policy issues and his engagement with business issues. Before leading the Financial Review, he served as Economics Editor and later as Editor of The Australian, where he played a key role in shaping national discourse on fiscal policy, industrial relations, and economic reform. His career has consistently demonstrated a strong grasp of the interplay between government policy and market dynamics, making him a prominent voice in debates over t
The Centre For Independent Studies hosts The Stutchbury Sessions, a news show with 24 episodes published.
Michael Stutchbury interviews Dr Peter Tulip about new NSW data showing development applications and lodgements rising sharply, with building approvals expected to climb but still falling short of the federal housing tar
At the Centre for Independent Studies' annual Liberty and Society student conference, 38 students from Australia and New Zealand explored classical liberal philosophy, free markets and social cohesion through talks and d
In this Stutch Sessions episode Parnell Palm McGuinness, author of the CIS report Generation Trapped, explains how young Australians (18–34) split into six distinct 'tribes' all still aspire to homeownership, family, mea
Watch here: https://youtu.be/NpXfg20UPWg As Treasurer Jim Chalmers prepares to hand down his fifth federal budget on 12 May 2026, four of Australia's leading economists gather at the Centre for Independent Studies to ask
As much as anything, the Centre for Independent Studies’ first 50 years has been dedicated to restraining the growth in the size, reach and financing of government to provide room for private enterprise and individual ch
Grim reality of the NDIS leviathan “It will start big and get bigger and grow to become the new leviathan of the Australian welfare state,” CIS scholar Andrew Baker further predicted of Labor’s National Disability Insura
The hard lesson of Australia’s protectionist past is that propping up uncompetitive and high cost industries invariably poses a burden on other sectors, including on the mining, gas and farm exporters that actually suppo
Donald Trump’s threats to destroy the ‘whole civilisation’ of Iran this week jarringly contrasted with the out-of-this world American achievement of sending a four-member crew as far from Earth as any humans had gone. 👉
Australia’s new economic decline is colliding with the breakdown of the liberal rules-based orders for global trade and security. The post-pandemic and oil shock push for more sovereign capability and supply-chain self-r
I was in Canberra this week, in part to hear International Energy Agency head Fatih Birol warn that today’s oil price shock will rival the twin Middle East energy shocks of the 1970s. The 1973 and 1979 shocks promoted us
RBA governor Michele Bullock has jacked up her cash rate by 25 basis points for the second month in a row because of two words that can strike fear into the heart of central bankers: “inflation expectations”. What does t
The criticisms and characterization of the 50% capital gains tax discount over many years have been full of misunderstandings, myths and distortions in the conventional narrative on how capital gains tax works, how it co
Shortly before 7pm on Sunday, a Hanukah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach was attacked by two alleged gunmen, believed to be a father and son. At the time of recording, 16 people aged between 10 and 87 are confirmed de
In this episode of The Stutchbury Sessions: Michael Stutchbury examines Senator Andrew Bragg’s provocative event at CIS on the future of housing policy — a speech that openly challenged the Liberal Party’s long-standing
In this episode of The Stutchbury Sessions: Are the Liberals sabotaging their path back to government by walking away from net zero? Or are they facing reality about Australia’s costly clean-energy transition? In this ep
Is the 2020s an echo of the 1970s for classical liberalism? In this episode of The Stutchbury Sessions , Michael Stutchbury recaps the CIS Consilium, exploring how free enterprise, free trade, and limited government are
Subscribe to The Stutchbury Sessions on Apple , Spotify , Amazon , iHeartRadio , PlayerFM or listen in your browser . Where is the line between risk and regulation? In this episode of The Stutchbury Sessions , Fred Roede
Subscribe to The Stutchbury Sessions on Apple , Spotify , Amazon , iHeartRadio , PlayerFM or listen in your browser . In this episode of The Stutchbury Sessions, host Michael Stutchbury reflects on his recent conversatio
Australia’s “renewables honeymoon” is ending and the energy bill is coming due. In this episode of The Stutchbury Sessions, we unpack the myth that government planning can fix every problem, from the $52 billion NDIS blo
Iron, Ideas, and Abundance: Supply Side Mistakes and Lessons This week on The Stutchbury Sessions, Michael reflects on his recent visit to Western Australia, the engine room of the nation’s prosperity. From the billion t
Chris Richardson
Rich Insight
1 appearance on this show
Richard Holden
UNSW Business School
1 appearance on this show
Robert Carling
Centre for Independent Studies
2 appearances on this show
Fred Roeder
Consumer Choice Center
1 appearance on this show
Sussan Ley
Liberal party
1 appearance on this show
Michael Stutchbury
The Australian Financial Review
1 appearance on this show
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