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...
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 Greens-led bill to prohibit government funding of coal-fired power in Australia has been slammed as a reckless ideological tactic, which would cause significant and irreparable economic damage...
A Greens-backed bill prohibiting government funding of coal-fired power in Australia would further worsen Australia’s electricity crisis. Government intervention in the energy market has seen...
This graph shows the extent of Australia’s red tape crisis. The number of regulatory restrictiveness clauses in federal legislation increased from around 2,000 in the late 1970s to 95,000 in 2015...
This article from the August 2019 IPA Review is by IPA Research Fellow, Kurt Wallace On 27 December 2016, just under a month before his inauguration, Donald Trump tweeted: “The world was gloomy...
Living standards are stagnating in Australia, according to the latest Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia report released on Tuesday. The goods and services that are increasing in...
The New South Wales government must grant an amnesty to all farmers who are being prosecuted under laws which no longer exist. They are facing huge fines of up to half a million dollars for...
“Handing over a vast raft of power to the Human Rights Commission” is not the way to protect religious freedom, John Roskam told Sky News on Tuesday. He said these “challenges are best...
