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...
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...
This article first appeared in the May 2018 edition of the IPA Review. PDF available here. A recent university study found that public satisfaction with our democratic processes and...
It’s hard to recall an Australian election in which the word ‘skills’ didn’t find its way into at least one of the major parties’ policy platforms. A vague mantra of…
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 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...
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...
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’...
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...
Gideon Rozner explains how British Columbia deregulated its way to a better economy and higher individual wages, and how Australia could do the same
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...
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…
