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Bella d'Abrera

Director, Foundations of Western Civilisation Program

Level 2, 410 Collins St, Melbourne 3000 VIC

Dr Bella d’Abrera is the Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs. She has a BA in History and Spanish from Monash University, an MA in Spanish from the University of St Andrews and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge.

She is the author of a number of academic works and scholarly articles and specialises in education and skills, faith and society and culture, ideas and liberty and Western Civilisation. She appears frequently in the media and is a regular contributor to The Australian, the Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun and the Spectator Australia.

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PUBLICATIONS

University Of Queensland Takes Action Against Its Own To Curry Favour With China

Bella d'Abrera 12 May 2020 Education and skills, Foreign affairs and trade,

We should all care about the case of 20-year-old Drew Pavlou, not only because of the injustice of a university intimidating its own student but also because it is symptomatic of the crisis of...

Originally appeared in The Australian

PUBLICATIONS

“The Unions…Do Not Really Care About The Education Of Australian Children”

Bella d'Abrera 29 April 2020 Ipa today, Keeping you in touch,

A new daily email by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, providing the latest economic data and policy measures for journalists, commentators and IPA members. Daily IPA comment...

PUBLICATIONS

Not A Very Class Act

Bella d'Abrera 24 April 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Despite the health advice consistently provided by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee which says that teachers can and should go back to school, teachers’ unions across the...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

PUBLICATIONS

Imagine, No Magna Carta

Bella d'Abrera 14 April 2020 Constitution and law, Ipa today,

All over the world, millions of people are being subjected by their respective governments to an untested social experiment which is decimating their societies. This experiment involves locking...

IPA TODAY

IPA Keeping In Touch – 26 March 2020

Bella d'Abrera 26 March 2020 Ipa today, Keeping you in touch,

Dear IPA Members, There is nothing quite like a global pandemic to bring into sharp focus those things which really matter in this life. As swiftly as the world has been subsumed by Coronavirus...

IPA TV

Celebrate Australia Day In 2020

Bella d'Abrera 20 January 2020 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

Australians do love Australia day. It turns out we do want to celebrate Australia day on the 26th of January because Australians love being free! Australia day is a chance for us to come together...

PUBLICATIONS

Celebrate A Day Of Unity

Bella d'Abrera 20 January 2020 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

This year, the bushfires have well and truly dulled the usual noise around Australia Day. There has been a notable absence of activist voices either calling to change the date of Australia Day or...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

Media Releases

New Poll: 71% Of Australians Support Australia Day on 26 January

Bella d'Abrera 20 January 2020 Ipa today, Media releases,

71% of Australians support Australia Day being celebrated on January 26 according to a new poll of over 1,000 Australians commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs. The polling conducted by...

PUBLICATIONS

Academic Agitators Rely On The Public Purse

Bella d'Abrera 20 December 2019 Climate change, Education and skills,

On Sunday the ABC published an article stating that masculinity is the biggest obstacle to climate action. The highly offensive piece, which was steeped in misandry and titled “Is fragile...

Originally appeared in The Australian

Freedom of Speech

Farce From the Madding Crowd

Bella d'Abrera Started 20 December 2019 Faith and society, Freedom of speech,

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the IPA Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, Bella d’Abrera. In his masterful new book, The Madness of...

Western Civilisation

How The West Spread South

Bella d'Abrera Started 19 December 2019 Education and skills, Ideas and liberty,

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the IPA Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, Bella d’Abrera. Australia’s colonists were deeply engaged...