Recent publications

Superannuation and MacBank as the zenith of the Australian nation

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Richard Allsop

Richard Allsop reviews Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's interrupted revolution by David Love (Scribe, 2008, 264 pages) According to David Love in his new book Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's interrupted revolution, Paul Keating and...

The Hollowmen and the sport of satire

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Louise Staley

What does our television tell us about Australian democracy? Over time, spin becomes truth. In the ABC's new satire The Hollowmen, political advisors find that they can no longer tell the difference, even to themselves, between spin and the...

Emissions Trading: Towards the biggest economic change in Australian history

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Alan Moran and Chris Berg

‘Placing a limit and a price on emissions will change the things we produce, the way we produce them, and the things we buy', states the Federal Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper, which compares the economic impact...

Voting for the leader is the next step for Liberal reform

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Christopher Pyne

In 2007, the Australian Labor Party successfully created a narrative that the Howard government had lost touch with working Australians. Issues such as climate change and industrial relations reinforced this narrative. During the campaign, this...

Australia's federation: How it is broken and why it has to be fixed

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Richard Allsop

Participatory Democracy: Cracks in the Facade

IPA BACKGROUNDER | Gary Johns

Participatory democracy assumes that all citizens are political actors and will spend considerable time in defence of their interests and ideas. In fact, democracy is much more elitist - it rests heavily on the idea that people delegate most of...