John Roskam

Senior Fellow
John Roskam is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Australian Way of Life at the Institute of Public Affairs. He served as Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs from 2005 to 2022. Before joining the IPA he taught political theory at the University of Melbourne. He was previously the Executive Director of The Menzies Research Centre in Canberra, has been a senior adviser and chief of staff to federal and state education ministers, and was the manager of government and corporate affairs for a global mining company.
His publications include Australia's Education Choices (with Professor Brian Caldwell), 'Terrorism and Poverty' in Blaming Ourselves, 'Liberalism and Social Welfare' in Liberalism and the Australian Federation, and 'The Liberal Party and the Great Split' in The Split Fifty Years Later.
His fortnightly column appears in The Australian Financial Review. He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Australian Journal of Public Administration, and Connor Court Publishing, and the Advisory Board of The Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration, Australia in Victoria, and is an Honorary Fellow of Campion College.

There’s Solidarity With The CFMEU

Health Costs Of Sacrificing Livelihoods

Retreat At Last From Zero-Covid

Libs In Name Only Cancel Christensen’s Dissent

Plan On Living And Dying With The Virus

If Lockdowns ‘Work’, Cut Fat Cats’ Pay

Virus Fights Blights Fiscal Future

Pandemic Slogans Mask Public Scrutiny

Victorian Lockdown Could Eliminate PM
