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The great lock out

Alan Moran & Julie Novak

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Are retail sales well above expectations?

Ashton de Silva & Sinclair Davidson

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Personal Behaviour, Risk & Responsibility

Julie Novak, Richard Allsop & Chris Berg

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Russia and the parable of the rear gunner

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | John Roskam

John Roskam reviews The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the end of the Cold War by James Mann (Viking, 2009, 396 pages) These days Ronald Reagan's leadership style has been given a name and there are whole books written about it. It's...

Unbinding Book Barriers: Why Australia should scrap parallel import restrictions on books

IPA BACKGROUNDER | Tim Wilson

The Productivity Commission is considering whether to liberalise Australia's parallel import restrictions for books. Unbinding Book Barriers finds that prices of books could fall by more than 30 per cent, without harming authors, Australian...

Tim Winton wrong: new study finds books could be 30 per cent cheaper without harming Australian authors & stories

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"Books could be 32 per cent cheaper if Australia scrapped import restrictions", Tim Wilson, Director of the Intellectual Property and Free Trade Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs said today. Removing parallel import restrictions will reduce...

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Ian Plimer | 2009 Harold Clough Lecture in Perth

9th July, 2009
The 2009 Harold Clough Lecture will be delivered by Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide...