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Gideon Rozner

Director of Policy

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Gideon Rozner is the Director of Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs. Gideon came to the IPA because of a lifelong interest in personal and economic freedom.

Prior to joining the IPA, Gideon spent several years practicing as a lawyer at one of Australia’s largest commercial law firms, as well as several months as interim general counsel of an ASX-200 company. He has also served as an adviser to ministers in the Abbott and Turnbull Governments, advising on areas as diverse as electoral reform and northern Australian economic development. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne.

Gideon has been published in a number of outlets including The Australian, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Age and The Spectator Australia, and has appeared on Sky News, 2GB, 3AW, ABC TV and Network Ten’s The Project.

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IPA TODAY

IPA Urges Rethink Of State Ownership Of The ABC

Gideon Rozner 26 September 2018 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today called on the Morrison Government to privatise the ABC in light of allegations of editorial interference by ABC Chair Justin Milne...

PUBLICATIONS

Blaming Jeff For Our Energy Mess Is A Joke

Gideon Rozner 3 September 2018 Energy and resources, In the news,

Blaming your problems on the previous government is poor form. But blaming your problems on something that another government did over 25 years ago is, to put it politely, taking the mickey. Yet...

Originally appeared in Herald Sun

PUBLICATIONS

Labor Is Setting A New Gold Standard For Changing The Rules

Gideon Rozner 11 July 2018 Freedom of speech, Ideas and liberty,

Sometimes you have to wonder how politicians can be so utterly shameless when it comes to their own self-interest. The Andrews government’s changes to the Victorian Electoral Act, currently before...

Originally appeared in The Age

Media Releases

Victorian Parliament Must Reject Andrews’ Electoral Bill

Gideon Rozner 20 June 2018 Ipa today, Media releases,

The Institute of Public Affairs has today urged Victorian Members of Parliament to oppose the Victorian Electoral Legislation Amendment Bill 2018, which is an undemocratic and wasteful attack on...

Media Releases

Electoral Law Recommendations A Welcome First Step

Gideon Rozner 9 April 2018 Ipa today, Media releases,

The Institute of Public Affairs has cautiously welcomed the recommendations of Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, in its report on the Turnbull Government’s Electoral...

In The News

Childcare Costs? Thank Unions And Government

Gideon Rozner 29 March 2018 In the news, Ipa today,

In case you didn’t notice, Tuesday was Keep Your Children Home Day – in other words, a nationwide childcare workers’ strike. The campaign represents yet another assault on childcare affordability...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

PUBLICATIONS

Another Union Attack on Affordable Childcare

Gideon Rozner 27 March 2018 Dignity of work, Ideas and liberty,

Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today called out those responsible for an unreasonable strike that will cause unnecessarily inconvenience for many families. IPA Research...

IPA TV

Why The ACTU Hates The Sharing Economy

Gideon Rozner 21 March 2018 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

Sally McManus’ speech today shows the ACTU are going after Uber, Airtasker, Deliveroo and other new businesses coming out of the sharing economy. Gideon Rozner explains why McManus’...

PUBLICATIONS

McManus Plan For Red Tape On Jobs Would Leave More Australians In The Unemployment Queues

Gideon Rozner 21 March 2018 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

The policies proposed by ACTU Secretary Sally McManus at the National Press Club today are part a radical union recruitment drive that would leave more Australians in the unemployment queues...

IPA TV

How British Columbia Defeated Red Tape – And How We Can Too

Gideon Rozner 20 March 2018 Innovation and entrepreneurship, Ipa today,

Gideon Rozner explains how British Columbia deregulated its way to a better economy and higher individual wages, and how Australia could do the same

Research Papers

The Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) Bill 2017

Gideon Rozner 14 February 2018 Freedom of speech, Ipa today,

Our new research brief explains why the Turnbull Government’s proposed changes to funding and disclosure provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act would threaten freedom of speech and civil...

PUBLICATIONS

Turnbull’s 18C On Steroids

Gideon Rozner 9 February 2018 Freedom of speech, In the news,

Rahm Emmanuel, one-time Chief of Staff in the Obama Administration, once said: ‘You never let a serious crisis go to waste… It’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.’ It...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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IPA Urges Rethink Of State Ownership Of The ABC

Blaming Jeff For Our Energy Mess Is A Joke

Labor Is Setting A New Gold Standard For Changing The Rules

Victorian Parliament Must Reject Andrews’ Electoral Bill

Electoral Law Recommendations A Welcome First Step

Childcare Costs? Thank Unions And Government

Another Union Attack on Affordable Childcare

How British Columbia Defeated Red Tape – And How We Can Too

The Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) Bill 2017

Turnbull’s 18C On Steroids

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