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November 2008 IPA Review now available!
Selected pieces from the November 2008 IPA Review:
- Louise Staley: Obesity: A big fat beat up
- Noel Bushnell: Not every journo can be Hunter S. Thompson
- Christopher Murn: Your child is a wuss
- Tony Parkinson: The Iraq factor
- John Roskam: Did global warming send Lehman Brothers broke?
...and much more. The IPA Review is available for purchase from our Melbourne office, by subscription, and from newsagencies across the country.
From the Editor: About the IPA Review
The IPA Review is Australia's oldest continuously published magazine covering politics and public affairs. The full archive of the IPA Review is available online by year:
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In 1943, the Institute of Public Affairs, inspired by the success of its first policy paper Looking Forward, began publishing the IPA Review in order to address the political and policy issues of the day more fully. As George Coles, the chairman at the time, wrote in the first editorial, the "need and scope in Australia for a well-considered journal of opinion of this kind is abundantly apparent." The sixty-plus years that the IPA Review has been published has shown how correct that sentiment was.
Like many long running magazines, it has changed its emphasis a number of times, fluctuating between a journal of economic record and a popular magazine. It has also seen similar fluctations in its views on small number of policy areas - for instance, some aspects of social policy. In part, these shifts mirror broader changes on the liberal and conservative sides of Australian politics, as policy analysts and political activists have altered their visions of what constitutes a 'liberal' society over the last half-century. As Australian society has changed, so has the IPA Review.
But it is consistency that defines the IPA Review, not change. The IPA Review has long been a consistant advocate of the two core principles that distinguish it from its competitors in Australia's newagencies and in policy debate - a firm belief in the importance of economic freedom and the need to defend Australia's liberal democracy.
For those interested in sampling the long back-catalogue of the IPA Review, here are some particular articles that are of historical importance and enduring interest:
- Friedrich Hayek, Full Employment, Planning and Inflation, 1950
- Peter Drucker, The Management Horizon, 1956
- Raymond Aron, French Economic Recovery, 1959
- Keith Hancock, Then and Now, 1968
- Professor FA Hayek's Australian Visit, 1976
- Friedrich Hayek, Address at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Public Affairs, 1976
- Friedrich Hayek, Socialism and Science, 1976
- Greg Lindsay, Rekindling the Flame: the revival of liberalism, 1979
- Some Lessons of the Fraser Years, 1983
- Peter Costello, Dollar Sweets: Confronting Union Power, 1985
- Paul Keating, Labor's Commitment to Smaller Government, 1985
- Ken Baker, The Bicentenary: Celebration or Apology?, 1985
- Geoffrey Blainey, 50 Years Back, 20 Years On, 1993
- Robert D. Putnam, What makes democracy work?, 1994
- Greg Melleuish, Who Owns the National Identity?, 1996
- Aynsley Kellow, The Flap over Butterflies, 1999
- John Hyde, What the Economic Rationalists (Dries) Really Believed, 2002
- Tim Wilson, Macchiato Myths: The dubious benefits of fair trade coffee, 2006
- Chris Berg & Andrew Kemp, Islam and the Free Market, 2007
- Jennifer Marohasy, Politics and the Environment in Indonesia, 2007