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Climate change advertisement
The IPA's climate change advertisement from the Australian on Tuesday 2 August
Tim Flannery: climate prophet
'I wake up in the morning thinking there are lots of times when people have woken up feeling like this, like the Old Testament prophets.' That's Tim Flannery, Julia Gillard's hand-picked Climate Change Commissioner, or preacher-in-chief, if you...
Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission National Classification Scheme Review
Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission National Classification Scheme Review
Carbon tax to push electricity prices up by 150 dollars next year
‘The Gillard government's carbon tax will push up the price of electricity for households by $150 in its first year alone', said Director of Climate Change Policy, Tim Wilson, today from Parliament House. ‘In her press conference...
Address to the 6th Annual Housing Congress
Address by Alan Moran to the 6th Annual Housing Congress in Brisbane on 28 June 2011.
Mark Steyn at Freedom of Speech in Australia
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Upward pressure: the cost of politically abusing food labelling
Upward pressure: the cost of politically abusing food labelling
Greens/Xenophon food labelling bill will push up food prices, hurt Australian and developing world's poor
"A Bill being considered this Parliamentary week will increase food prices by driving processed food manufacturers to use 20 per cent more expensive ingredients", said Tim Wilson, Director of the IP and Free Trade Unit today. Mr Wilson's comments...
New poll: Australians want Special Economic Zone in North
In a landmark Galaxy poll conducted exclusively for the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Australia's leading free market think tank, 60% of Australians have said that they are in favour of the establishment of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to...
Australians want a new vision for Northern Australia
A Galaxy poll conducted exclusively for the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) found that the majority of Australians are in favour of establishing a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) with low taxes to stimulate economic growth in Northern Australia....