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.
13 December 2018
Inside the Intellectual Dark Web
The intellectual dark web has outsmarted the cultural left’s gatekeepers by speaking directly to a growing audience of millions of conservatives, classical liberals and libertarians, writes Gideon Rozner. (originally published in the October 2018 IPA Review) For the first few seconds, you think you’re in for something incendiary, even faintly satanic. The YouTube video opens with the show’s emblem: a
2 October 2018
Ye vs the People
One of the world’s most influential rap musicians, Kanye West is notorious for his colourful and often outlandish public persona. But nothing in West’s career of some 20 years has been as controversial as his revelation that he is – quelle horreur – a Trump supporter. West’s support for the president came to light shortly after the 2016 election, with
1 October 2018
Upper Cut to Snootocracy
Quentin Letts letting loose delivers a cathartic read even though some stray punches strike the wrong targets, writes Gideon Rozner. As countries throughout the West buckle under the disconnect between the political class and the mainstream, the London Daily Mail’s columnist Quentin Letts unloads on the ‘snootocracy’: the political, cultural and financial elites that have steadily ‘betrayed Britain’. And Letts
26 September 2018
IPA Urges Rethink Of State Ownership Of The ABC
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. “This episode proves once and for all that, despite its claims otherwise, the ABC is in no way ‘independent’,” said IPA Director of Communications, Gideon Rozner. “A situation
11 September 2018
Hope and Tax Cuts in Waterloo Iowa
What can Australia learn from middle America? Gideon Rozner heads deep into Iowa to find out (This article first appeared in the August 2018 edition of the IPA Review. PDF of article here.) Even by the standards of smaller airports in Australia, Iowa’s Waterloo Regional Airport is conspicuously spartan. One boarding gate, one baggage carousel and only two flights daily
3 September 2018
Blaming Jeff For Our Energy Mess Is A Joke
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 that is exactly what Daniel Andrews did recently when he effectively blamed former premier Jeff Kennett for the spiralling energy prices that have occurred on his watch.
1 August 2018
Boondoggling Australia
When politicians are tempted by a big vision, fiscal prudence is rarely front of mind. Once there are nine or more digits after the dollar sign, the numbers are so ridiculously large that politicians lose their grip on everyday logic and fiscal restraint flies out the window. In the US they call them boondoggles: big government projects that make politicians
11 July 2018
Labor Is Setting A New Gold Standard For Changing The Rules
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 Parliament, are the perfect example. If passed, the bill would allow for the brazen manipulation of the democratic process, at great expense for us, the Victorian taxpayers. Of course, politicians
20 June 2018
Victorian Parliament Must Reject Andrews’ Electoral Bill
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 free speech, which would squeeze out minor parties and entrench the two-party system. The IPA’s Parliamentary Research Brief, authored by IPA Research Fellow, Gideon Rozner, was sent to all Members of
10 May 2018
FIVE IDEAS TO FIX AUSTRALIA
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 public trust in the politicians we elect are at some of the lowest levels ever recorded. Meanwhile, Australia is experiencing sluggish economic growth as businesses struggle under the burden of red
