Recent publications

Big fat beat up

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Louise Staley

Arnold Schwarzenegger is obese. He's been obese his entire adult life, including the seven times he won the Mr Olympia bodybuilding title. Despite obesity not impacting his own, clearly excellent, health, Governor Schwarzenegger has introduced...

Taking the Pulse: Reform Initiatives for the WA Health System

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Ross Fox

A new report by Ross Fox in conjunction with the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation examining the public health system in Western Australia.

WA public hospitals have more bureaucrats and fewer nurses

MEDIA RELEASE | Ross Fox

WA public hospitals have more bureaucrats and fewer nurses than the average public hospital in Australia according to a major report to be released in Perth by the Institute of Public Affairs.

Breaking through medical myths

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Scott Ryan

Lifting the veil of health 'stakeholders'... Earlier this year, the new Minister for Health referred to the need to ‘rebuild health services after the last decade of neglect' as only 73.4 per cent of all Medicare services were being...

A revolution in healthcare

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Fred Hansen

Medicine meets the marketplace.

HIV/AIDS medicines for all?

IPA BACKGROUNDER | Tim Wilson

There are few more important issues facing developing nations than the HIV/AIDS crisis. HIV/AIDS destroys lives, consumes scarce resources, and provides yet another unneeded brake on the path to growth for many developing nations. The developed...