12 December 2017

Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt joined The Young IPA Podcast this week to talk about a range of topics. Here are some highlights. Why he spoke at Milo Yiannopoulos’ events. “I saw a clip of the Western Australian premier Mark McGowan saying ‘Milo Yiannopoulos isn’t welcome in Western Australia, we won’t extend any government building.’ And I thought ‘you bugger’

1 December 2017

1: ORGANISE A MEETING WITH RUSSIAN OFFICIALS IN YOUR OWN NAME Donald Trump Jnr organised a meeting with a Russian lawyer with alleged connections with the Kremlin after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Displaying this kind of carelessness and stupidity is paramount early in the process. Later releasing these emails to the public is risky, but recommended. 2:

28 November 2017

Professor Sinclair Davidson, IPA Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Institutional Economics at RMIT University, joined us on The Young IPA Podcast this week. Here’s some of what he had to say: Why Australia hasn’t seen meaningful tax reform since 2007 Well there’s two things that have really happened. The first is we’ve had a lack of economic leadership. Peter

23 November 2017

Lost in talk about Donald Trump’s low approval rating is the reality that world leaders across the West have even lower approval ratings: People are tuning out of the political class in general. The IPA’s Daniel Wild explained why in the IPA Review in July. In June, John Roskam wrote in The Australian Financial Review that Australian political debate is just “the major political parties and the political

14 November 2017

The Australian columnist and IPA Board Member Janet Albrechtsen joined the Young IPA Podcast to discuss a range of issues. Here are some highlights. On Milo Yiannopoulos “Boy, do we need Milo.” “He sees himself very much as the cultural disruptor. If Trump is the political disruptor, then he’s the cultural one. He takes the view of [Andrew] Breitbart that

9 November 2017

“Red tape in Australia has reached a crisis point.” That’s the key finding of IPA Research Fellow Daniel Wild’s new report Barriers to Prosperity: Red Tape and the Regulatory State in Australia. Watch our video released today on Daniel’s report here and have a look at what red tape is doing to business investment in Australia: And this is the result. If business growth in

31 October 2017

On The Young IPA Podcast this week, James, Pete and Simon discussed Indigenous Recognition in the Constitution. Here’s what Simon had to say: “We think that equality means people should be treated the same under the Constitution” “It’s really important that principles we put in [The Constitution] are ones that stand the test of time. I think the idea that

25 October 2017

On the IPA’s latest report The Rise of Identity Politics: An Audit of History Teaching at Australian Universities “Personally I think [these subjects] don’t belong in history faculties. They are subjects that are largely focused on identity politics, looking at the past through the lenses of class, race and gender.” “They are reducing 2,500 years [of human history] to three very

19 October 2017

Below are the most used keywords in the titles and subject descriptions of history subjects in Australian universities. If you squint hard enough, you might just be able to see the Enlightenment: That’s from the IPA’s latest report The Rise of Identity Politics: An Audit of History Teaching in Australian Universities in 2017 by Dr Bella d’Abrera. The report was featured  on the front page of The

16 October 2017

Herald Sun columnist Rita Panahi joined the Young IPA Podcast to discuss a wide range of issues. Here are some of the highlights. Listen to the full interview on iTunes, Soundcloud and our website. And make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!   Harvey Weinstein “To me, he is the poster child for the creepy male feminist.