Attempting to keep and reunite children with even highly dysfunctional parents at almost all costs has swung the pendulum of child protection systems too far in favour of defending parental rights at the expense of protecting children’s rights and best interests.

Understanding the true meaning of Australian history, and debunking the perennial claims routinely made about the role our supposedly perpetual history of ‘racism’ allegedly continues to play in Australian society, is increasingly in the national interest today.

Revision of the federation is imperative to allow the states to reclaim full control over both funding and policy responsibility for health.

In this commentary piece, a number of CIS authors give their view on the federal budget for 2017-18.

This report argues that the Medicare Levy is a fiscal fiction, as the levy revenue accounts for a mere fraction of government spending on Medicare.