Recent publications

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Can free markets be as interesting as regulated markets?

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson reviews The Best Book on the Market: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Economyby Eamonn Butler (Capstone, 2008, 172 pages) Eamonn Butler has written a marvellous little book promot­ing the free market. The best book on...

The intellectual gap goes to university

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Sinclair Davidson

Following a campaign by the Australian Liberal Students Federation, a Senate committee is investigating the level of intellectual diversity at Australian universities. It is well-known that academia-and more often than not those who are university...

Submission to the Inquiry into Academic Freedom

| Sinclair Davidson

Fear of school profit holding quality back

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | John Roskam

In Australia, schools are operated either by the government or by not-for-profit private organisations. It is prohibited to run a school to make a financial profit. In the United States there is no such prohibition. And a recent study published by...

Top of the class: Making the most of Western Australia's school system

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Matthew Ryan

Policy makers now have a deeper awareness of the importance of good schools in underpinning economic prosperity. Western Australian schools enjoy a relatively high level of public funding support. On the other hand, WA has higher cost pressures...

Fighting the last war: industrial relations in 2007

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Ken Phillips

Australian Education Union distorting the debate

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Sinclair Davidson

Outcomes Based Education: Dumbed Down and Politically Correct

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Kevin Donnelly

Powerpoint presentation from Lecture on Outcomes Based Education. As presented by Kevin Donnelly at UWA on 20 June 2006.

In defence of a liberal education

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Kevin Donnelly

Choosing and Reforming Schools

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Geoffrey Partington

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