The CIS Event Experience

From the studios of CIS our events team brings you engaging discussions from our live events, featuring lectures, panel discussions, and conversations with leading experts. From economic policy and social issues to international relations and cultural debates, our events explore the ideas and challenges shaping our world.Tune in from anywhere to be part of the conversation. Find us wherever you listen to your podcasts and subscribe now to ensure you never miss an episode!

The CIS Event Experience is a news podcast hosted by cisevents, with 41 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #47

  Australia's Broken Budget | Chris Richardson, Michael Stutchbury, Robert Carling & Richard Holden

  May 7, 20261h 19mS0

  <p>Watch here: https://youtu.be/NpXfg20UPWg</p> <p>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: is this budget up to the challenge?</p> <p>Hosted by CIS Executive Director Michael Stutchbury, this roundtable brings together Robert Carling (CIS Senior Fellow, former Treasury and IMF official), Professor Richard Holden (UNSW Business School), and Chris Richardson (Principal, Rich Insight and Australia's most cited budget economist) for a frank, wide-ranging conversation on the fiscal pressures facing Australia.</p> <p>They...

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  Episode #46

  Antisemitism Is Not a Jewish Problem, It's an Australian Problem | Frydenberg, Finlay & Sackville

  Apr 9, 20261h 26mS0

  <p>Michael Stutchbury, Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Studies, opens this panel discussion with a sobering observation: the Bondi massacre did not come from nowhere. The attack on 14 December 2025 was the violent endpoint of a cascade of hatred that had been building across Australian society for years, and it has forced a confrontation with a question our institutions can no longer avoid. Are our laws, our civic culture, and our leaders equipped to deal with antisemitism as it is now?</p> <p>Former Federal Treasurer The Hon. Josh Frydenberg argues that the answer, so far, has been no...

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  Episode #45

  Behind Every Great Teacher Is a Great System | David Didau, Jenny Donovan & Trisha Jha

  Mar 19, 20261h 20mS0

  <p>David Didau — education consultant, teacher trainer, and author of Making Kids Cleverer and Intelligent Accountability — and Dr Jenny Donovan — inaugural CEO of the Australian Education Research Organisation and former head of the NSW Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation — join the Centre for Independent Studies to make the case for systemic reform over individual teacher improvement.</p> <p>Didau challenges the prevailing deficit view of teachers, arguing that educators already behave rationally within the systems they work in, and that redesigning those systems is a far more powerful lever than targeting individual practice. He frames every teaching decision around three co...

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  Episode #38

  The Case for Optimism: More People, More Ideas, More Wealth | Marian Tupy

  Mar 5, 20261h 25mS0

  <p>Marian Tupy — editor of HumanProgress.org, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and co-author of Superabundance — makes a data-driven case that human ingenuity consistently outpaces resource constraints. Presenting as the CIS Max Hartwell Scholar-in-Residence for 2026, Tupy argues that more people, given freedom, generate more ideas, more innovation, and rising living standards for everyone.</p> <p>Using "time prices" — the cost of goods measured in hours of work rather than dollars — Tupy documents a dramatic expansion of material abundance across Australia and the world over the past century. He examines why most goods have become far more affordable relative to wages, w...

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  Episode #37

  Angus Taylor at CIS: Economic Reform, Immigration, and Australia's Cost of Living Crisis

  Feb 17, 20261h 23mS0

  <p>Speaking at his first address outside Canberra since being elected Leader of the Opposition by the Liberal Party room, Angus Taylor joins CIS Executive Director Michael Stutchbury for a wide-ranging conversation on the Liberal Party's direction under new leadership, Australia's cost of living crisis, and the policy reforms needed to restore the country's prosperity and way of life.</p> <p>Taylor outlines his agenda for economic renewal, centred on spending restraint, lower taxes, affordable energy, and reduced regulation — and issues a direct challenge to the Albanese government to join a bipartisan task force on budget repair. The discussion examines th...

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