People & associates
Chris Berg
Research Fellow; Editor, IPA Review
Chris Berg is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs and Editor of the IPA Review. He also the head of the IPA's Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit. He is a regular columnist with the Sunday Age, and the author of The Growth of Australia's Regulatory State: Ideology, accountability and the mega-regulators.
Contact details
Telephone: 0402 257 681
Address: Level 2 410 Collins St, Melbourne 3000 vic
Related publications
Editorial, September 2008
Free-marketeers cannot refuse to engage and critique the emissions trading scheme just because they are not happy with the science. This edition of the IPA Review focuses on the federal government's new emissions trading scheme (ETS). It does not,...
Emissions Trading: Towards the biggest economic change in Australian history
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Alexander Solzhenitsyns challenging legacy
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Editorial, July 2008
Last year, the IPA Review had its sixtieth birthday, making it the oldest continuously published political magazine in the country since the demise of The Bulletin. And this year we were awarded the Sir Anthony Fisher International Memorial Award...
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