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.
19 October 2021
The Climate Chicken Littles Haven’t Won. We’ve Been Here Before
Yes, I know things look bad now. Everyone from the News Corp mastheads to the Queen of England and two heirs presumptive are falling in behind ‘net zero’. Scott Morrison is trudging off to Glasgow. The world has lost its collective mind. I know, I know. But relax. We’ve been here before, and we turned out fine. Let me explain. The
8 September 2021
Australians Are Suffering From Excessive COVID Lockdowns
The political class that has dreamed up and enforced restrictions has been largely insulated from the consequences. When you think about all the twisted, horrible ideas that so-called progressives have unleashed on the 21st century, it’s actually somewhat amazing that banal, garden-variety safetyism, of all things, has been the straw to break freedom’s back. At least that is what’s happened
26 August 2021
We Australians Are Sick Of The Zero-Covid Delusion
Yes, everything you’ve heard about Australia and coronavirus is true. Yes, the entire city of Greater Sydney has been in full lockdown since late June, at which time there were 82 cases in the entire state of New South Wales. Not 82 deaths, not 82 hospitalisations – 82 cases. At the time the latest lockdown was announced here in Melbourne, the
24 August 2021
Putting A Price On The Cost Of Covid Lockdowns
We are not – and have never been – ‘in this together’. As thousands of Australians lined up outside Centrelink in March last year, the politicians and bureaucrats responsible watched from their taxpayer-funded offices. For public servants, professionals and the independently wealthy, lockdowns have been at worst an inconvenience. For small business owners and those employed by them, they have been
30 June 2021
Lockdowns Don’t Work
With over 12 million Australians now living under lockdown, IPA Director of Policy Gideon Rozner implored all politicians in Australia to abandon lockdown policies and commit to alternative ways of handling Covid 19. “Lockdowns do not work. They are illiberal and economically destructive, and the best available international evidence finds no link between lockdowns and stopping excess Covid deaths. Australia
7 June 2021
The Dan Show
Strap on your masks and break out the hand sanitiser – The Dan Show is back for a fourth season, sans Dan! Debuting in March 2020, The Dan Show follows bumbling anti-hero Dan Andrews as he veers from one authoritarian edict or bureaucratic bungle to another, fronting up at each episode’s press conference to escape, MacGyver-like, from any and all consequence or accountability. From an initial
4 May 2021
The National Curriculum Will Divide Families
The proposed changes to the National Curriculum will “de-educate children.” The proposals add identity politics and critical race theory to our nation’s schools, remove teachings of Christianity and Ancient Greece among others, and will teach Australian children that Australia Day and ANZAC Day are “contested.” Watch the IPA react to the changes.
22 February 2021
Mainstream Australians Overwhelmingly Support Free Speech
A new poll of 1,038 Australians commissioned by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has found that Australians overwhelmingly support freedom of speech, according to new polling commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs, despite growing calls for censorship of the news media. The poll data was collected by marketing research firm Dynata between 11-13 December 2020. It asked Australians to agree or disagree with the
11 February 2021
High Court To Decide On Peter Ridd Free Speech Case
The Institute of Public Affairs has today welcomed the historic judgement of the High Court in the case of James Cook University (JCU) v Peter Ridd, which has given Dr Peter Ridd special leave to bring on his final appeal. “This will be the most significant test case for academic freedom in a generation to be settled by the highest
16 January 2021
Melbourne’s Double Lockdown
Even as they shut their doors—quite possibly forever, in many cases—Melbourne’s battered hospitality businesses were still complying. The bars and restaurants and cafes for which Australia’s self-proclaimed cultural capital prided itself were still taking names and phone numbers at the door, still asking patrons to wear masks, still leaving bottles of hand sanitiser at the door. They were even keeping
