To understand the self-loathing narrative pushed on us by some Australians about the date of our national day, you need only examine the way Australia’s history is being taught. There is a direct...
If your only way of finding out about what’s happening in this country is either by listening to ABC or reading the Guardian, you’d think the entire country is embarrassed about being Australian...
75% of Australians support Australia Day being celebrated on January 26 according to a new poll of 1,000 Australian commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs. The polling conducted by...
In the latest IPA Explainer, the IPA’s Dr Bella d’Abrera discusses the findings of the latest IPA report ‘Australian History’s Last Stand: An Audit of Australian History...
Key Research Findings This report examines the way in which the history of Australia is currently being taught in Australian universities. It is based on a systematic review of all 147 Australian...
Australian History is no longer being taught as a study of past events but as a social commentary on the present, according to a new Institute of Public Affairs report: Australian History’s...
While England was in the middle of tearing itself apart during the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell and his fellow puritans were so profoundly offended by the singing of Christmas carols that they...
Last week, thousands of angry and emotional schoolchildren carrying an array of crudely-made placards bearing messages of varying degrees of originality took to the streets of Sydney to protest...
Returning to the true purpose of education can reverse plummeting academic standards, argues the IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Program director Bella d’Abrera. The evidence is in...
The news that former federal education minister Simon Birmingham vetoed several humanities research projects submitted to the Australian Research Council last year has sparked a flurry of...
Recently, Erik Jensen, founding editor of the Saturday Paper and convener of the Horne Prize for essays, had been so struck by what he considered to be an intolerable amount of ‘chauvinism and...
In 2017, following the wishes of the late Paul Ramsay, a businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune in the healthcare industry, the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation was set up in...
