Since the Global Financial Crisis, there has been a pronounced loss of faith in the free market economy.

This has been coupled with increasing dissatisfaction over government moves for higher taxes to be gouged from both individuals and business — and then wasted on poorly-judged social programs and infrastructure projects.

With the risk and return matrix and reputation hazards to corporations and financial institutions following the GFC, capital markets are becoming increasingly attracted to social impact investing.

Josephine will speak on Impact investing, or social impact investing, which she believes, offers opportunities for investors with a commitment to social responsibility to invest in solutions to fix entrenched societal problems for both financial and social returns. Josephine will also highlight how successful impact investing is offering solutions to problems such as overcrowded social housing and employment programs for at-risk populations by harnessing the speed and efficiency of capital markets preventing wasteful government spending.

Urgent action is need to address the epidemic of violence in Indigenous communities. Aboriginal women are between 37 and 80 times more likely to experience family violence than non-Indigenous women. For too long, the voices of the victims of domestic violence have been oppressed and silenced.

As part of the ongoing advocacy to address this issue, The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) Indigenous Research Program was pleased to present the voices of three outspoken and fearless Aboriginal women, Professor Marcia Langton AM, Councillor Jacinta Price and Lawyer and businesswomen, Josephine Cashman who spoke about their personal experiences with family violence, and the policy and community levers that could rapidly decelerate high rates of violence.

We are pleased to announce our full lineup of panellists Jacinta Price, Peter Fitzsimons, Anthony Dillon, Geoffrey Winters, Norma Ingram & Jeremy Sammut

Calls are growing to move Australia Day away from January 26. But is having the national day on the anniversary of the First Fleet’s arrival in 1788 really insensitive to Indigenous people? How would changing the date help the plight of Aboriginal Australians? And if we change Australia Day, what date should we choose?

The Australian economy is in its 27th year of continuous economic growth. Unemployment is 5.4 percent. The global economic outlook is bullish yet real wages remain flat. What is Labor's economic agenda?

Shadow Treasurer, The Hon Chris Bowen MP, outlines the economic reforms the Labor Party intends to implement should they win the next election.

Elected to the House of Reps in 2004, Chris Bowen has been a familiar face in politics for some time. He has served as Treasurer and Immigration Minister in the Rudd and Gillard Governments and as acting Federal Labor leader in the aftermath of the 2013 federal election. He is author of Money Men: Australia's Twelve Most Notable Treasurers (MUP).

The growth of social media; Implications on the public policy landscape.

Britain’s ruling Conservative Party is falling deeper into disarray. With Brexit negotiations faltering, and against the backdrop of last year’s election disaster, there is a real danger that Prime Minister Theresa May’s days are numbered.

Meanwhile, Britain’s Labour Opposition – which may be the next governing party at Westminster – is extending its march to the left.

After nine years of centre-right governments under Prime Ministers John Key and Bill English, New Zealand has new leadership.

Led by Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and supported by New Zealand First and the left-wing Greens, the new coalition has pledged to take the country in a different direction.

Changes to industrial relations, housing and even monetary policy are on the cards. So, how interventionist is this new New Zealand Government? To what extent does it mark a radical departure from its predecessor’s policies?

The Australian taxpayer pays considerable support for people in need, but the problems of poverty seem intractable. So, what other issues should we be thinking through?

We are pleased to announce the visit of Sadanand Dhume, a resident fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute and distinguished commentator on Indian politics.

Narendra Modi is India’s most powerful prime minister in the past three decades. He is also the most dominant leader in the combined 67-year-old history of his right-of-centre Bharatiya Janata Party and its predecessor party.

Has he met the high expectations that so many people raised in 2014 when he won a landslide election? Is he truly a transformative figure? Will he challenge the shopworn ideas in economics and foreign policy that have shaped India since independence in 1947?

March 13 marked the 25th anniversary of the 1993 federal election contest between the incumbent Paul Keating and John Hewson. In the lead up to the recession ‘we had to have’, John Hewson emerged as the leader of the opposition Liberal party. He set out early and launched his Fightback policy in late 1991 representing the Coalition’s new future policy direction.