Gideon Rozner
Gideon Rozner was 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.
8 June 2017
McCapitalism burned by Hollywood
I should have known better. The founder of one of the world’s biggest corporations – and the forefather of ‘Big Food’ – was never going to get a sympathetic treatment from Hollywood. But for a while, director John Lee Hancock had me. The Founder – Hancock’s biopic of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc – starts promisingly enough. A down-on-his-luck travelling salesman,
3 February 2017
IPA: Construction Costs In Melbourne Sky High
Construction and labour costs in Melbourne are among the highest in the world, second only to places like New York, according to a new research paper The Impact of the prohibitive cost of building in Victoria by the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Author of the research paper, IPA Adjunct Fellow Gideon Rozner said “Construction costs
3 February 2017
The Impact of the Prohibitive Cost of Building in Victoria
On Wednesday 30 November 2016, the Australian Senate passed the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill. The main object of the Bill is to: “…provide an improved workplace relations framework for building work to ensure that building work is carried out fairly, efficiently and productively, for the benefit of all building industry participants and for the benefit of the
2 December 2016
It’s Offensive When Labor Plays Politics With Racism
It is disappointing when politicians stir up racial and religious tensions for their own political purposes. And it’s not politicians on the Right I’m talking about. It’s Bill Shorten, who spent the better part of last week trying to mobilise ethnic and religious communities against increasingly likely changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, with warnings of “a
14 October 2016
Union Bully Busting: FU To The UFU
Voters in the ACT have a stark choice this weekend: Jeremy Hanson and the Canberra Liberals, or four more years of a government notoriously beholden to trade unions (even by Labor standards). Canberrans only have to look south to see what a union-dominated government looks like. Victoria’s situation is so dire that Metropolitan Fire Brigade chief Peter Rau resigned recently
1 October 2016
Code Red
While the Turnbull Government recently introduced legislation to the Parliament to prohibit EBA clauses that restrict an emergency management body’s ability to manage volunteers, this change does not go far enough. Instead, the Fair Work Act must be amended so that only matters pertaining to the employer-employee relationship are permitted in EBAs. This would not restrict the ability of unions
