Western Australia has always been a fast-moving, entrepreneurial, and successful state. Blessed with an abundance of natural resources, a thriving agricultural sector, and people with go-ahead...
Government bureaucracy – the one area of the Australian economy that never fails to grow. Adam Creighton in The Australian on Wednesday reported that the expansion of the public sector in...
“We don’t want to be dividing our country on the basis of race.” Watch Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Lorraine Finlay, Senator James McGrath and Dr Anthony Dillon explain why ‘Race has No Place in the...
This article from the October 2019 IPA Review is by IPA Research Fellow, Kurt Wallace. For a supposedly free market economy where prices are formed by the market, an inordinate amount of attention...
The Reserve Bank’s extended low interest rate policy and consideration of “unconventional monetary policy tools” reveals a lack of self-reflection and a commitment to a model that is...
Extinction Rebellion is protesting in the wrong country. But they are far from the only ones unwilling to go up against China. The NBA quickly apologised to China after the Houston Rockets’...
Australia has a red tape crisis. And it’s the red tape you can’t see that’s making the problem worse. Kurt Wallace’s new report exposes Regulatory Dark Matter in...
“Open, honest, and fearless discussion of climate science is more important than ever before” said Gideon Rozner, promoting the publication of Climate Change: The Facts 2020. The latest instalment...
The Government’s proposed restrictions on the use of cash bill which would ban cash payments over $10,000 is a disproportionate and ineffective way of tackling the illegal activity of the ‘black...
A new research brief by free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has refuted claims by unions that low-paid work is a ‘dead-end job’ and that people on the minimum wage are trapped...
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Australia’s premier free market think tank, is dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic and political freedom. The Parliamentary...
A new research brief by free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs details the extent of Australia’s small business crisis. “To meet its election commitment to oversee the creation of...
