Red tape is holding back our entrepreneurs and threatening our economic prosperity, new IPA research has found. Nine of Australia’s top ten largest companies were founded before 1925; by contrast...
From the sandstones to the concrete monstrosities, Australia’s university students are returning to lecture halls and classrooms in coming weeks. This provides an opportune time to ask: are our...
Academic freedom is one of the core values of our society, which is why the case of Professor Peter Ridd is so troubling. The attack on Professor Peter Ridd’s academic freedom to discuss...
‘Who has been too scared to express their opinion in a tutorial?’ I asked a room packed with students last month. Every student hand immediately popped up. ‘Who here has not written their actual...
Our universities are restricting speech like never before in a misguided attempt to protect students’ feelings Australia’s universities are becoming increasingly hostile to...
Australia’s universities are failing to protect free speech on campus. The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)’s Free Speech on Campus Audit 2017 is a systematic analysis of over 165...
Australian universities are hostile to free speech on campus, according to the Institute of Public Affairs’ Free Speech on Campus Audit 2017 authored by IPA research fellow Matthew Lesh. The Audit...
A new report from the Department of Industry has found that the Australian entrepreneurship downturn is worse than previously thought. Earlier this month the IPA’s new report...
Most Australians know little of Norfolk Island. It is, after all, a small island territory with just 1700 inhabitants located 1400km from our mainland. Nevertheless, we should be concerned about...
President Donald Trump is planning to lower company tax to 20 per cent, the British Conservatives will be lowering their company tax from 20 per cent to 17 per cent by 2020, the Netherlands...
Australia’s economic prosperity is under threat through red tape. The IPA’s Matthew Lesh explains why this is, and what we can do to change it.
The Daily Telegraph has reported today on the University of Sydney’s selective charging of conservative students for event security. IPA campus coordinator Renee Gorman has been forced to agree to...
