James Cook University is threatening scientific integrity by seeking to censor one of its academic staff members, Professor Peter Ridd, according to John Roskam, the Executive Director of the...
In 2018 policy and politics in Australia will probably be exactly like it was in 2017. Confused, confounding and contradictory. Because the policy positions of the major parties on so many key...
How broad is “broad” is the question confronting the federal Liberal Party. It’s the question the party has been avoiding for the decade since the departure from parliament of...
Friday marks 10 years since the Rudd government was elected. It’s 10 years to the day since Australia last had good government. On 24 November 2007, after portraying himself as “John...
With Christmas fast approaching, here are some books published this year that IPA staff members think would be great presents: John Roskam The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the...
A few days ago, Attorney-General George Brandis got a bit confused. He said that the debate about the citizenship status of politicians was becoming a “witch hunt” and “this is...
“Since when did a conservative government become more socialist than the ALP? What does a conservative government stand for if it wants to regulate the employment conditions of leaders in...
Countries become mediocre the same way Mike, a character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises went broke. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike...
“The personal is political”, a slogan of radical feminism in the 1970s, has now become true. A family dinner would have once been considered a safe space for the personal and the...
What’s been obvious to anyone outside the Canberra bubble for the last six months might finally have dawned upon Malcolm Turnbull and his ministers. The Coalition can win the next federal...
The release of the Bureau of Meteorology’s internal review only underlines the need for a transparent parliamentary inquiry into the manipulation of temperature data, according to free market...
The refusal to celebrate Australia Day by a handful out of the more than 500 local councils around the country represents more than just another example of “political...
