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2 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Tom Switzer
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Tom Switzer
Executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies June 11, 2025 — 3.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The video released this week by Prue Car, announcing that she is facing her second cancer diagnosis in less than three years, comes as a great shock to the state.
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2 weeks ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Tom Switzer
Were the ABC to be sold off it might just be possible to take in an entire night's viewing without once shouting at the screenJun 11 202516 minsDetermining an Olympic sprinter's time with a sundial would have more integrity than the IPCC's projections of global doomJun 10 20255 minsHow to prise the Aboriginal Industry off the public teat?
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Tom Switzer
Times may be grim and getting grimmer for the Liberal and National parties, but things could be worse. The Coalition, for example, could be living in 1967. Following the drowning of then-prime minister Harold Holt, John McEwen – the then-Country (as the Nationals were then known) party leader and deputy prime minister – vetoed deputy Liberal leader Bill McMahon from becoming leader of the party and country.
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Tom Switzer
Nearly 40 years ago, during her transformative and market-driven prime ministership of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher famously said: “You can’t buck the markets.” She was right. But US President Donald Trump thought he could do just that when he imposed what appeared to be a largely random selection of tariffs on America’s trading partners. Within weeks, Trump has been, to quote another great conservative thinker, Irving Kristol, “mugged by reality”. Loading...
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Tom Switzer
The nation goes to the polls on May 3, and everything continues to point to a hung parliament. That’s too bad because the status quo is an unsatisfactory state of affairs. Our regulated housing sector continues to price people out of the property market. Both parties have delivered higher energy prices. Government spending as a percentage of GDP continues to rise, as do the budget deficit and national debt. Australians are experiencing the longest decline in real household incomes on record.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
afr.com | Tom Switzer
Donald Trump’s election victory marks the greatest political comeback in modern history. The last successful attempt to come back from a re-election loss was Grover Cleveland, who was denied re-election in 1888 before rebounding in 1892. Donald Trump at an election rally in North Carolina, the first crucial swing state that he won. Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLoading...
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
afr.com | Tom Switzer
The Austrian economist and intellectual Friedrich Hayek was a victim of cancel culture long before the term entered the political vernacular. Eighty years ago, three US trade publishers rejected his now-classic The Road to Serfdom, suggesting it was “unfit for publication by a reputable house”. One publishing adviser later conceded that the quality of the scholarship was not disreputable, just its politics.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
cis.org.au | Eamonn Butler |Tom Switzer
Donate today! Your support will help build a better future. Your Donation at WorkDonate NowEamonn Butler joined us at the Centre for Independent Studies for a conversation on the recent political shift in Britain following the Labour Party’s victory and its implications for the economy. This event was moderated by CIS Executive Director, Tom Switzer. After 14 years in power, the Conservatives were recently defeated in a massive landslide.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
internationalaffairs.org.au | Tom Switzer
The Kremlin’s decision to invade Ukraine has been primarily driven by the threat of NATO’s expansion along Russia’s border. Its strategic objective is to annex some Ukrainian territory and badly weaken the country so it cannot join NATO. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a chorus of government officials, academics, commentators, and retired bureaucrats and diplomats has dismissed all links between the crisis and the decades-long NATO expansion.
