The Right Way to Debate Religous Freedoms
Both sides in the religious liberty debate might give up the debate altogether in return for state privileges, writes Morgan Begg. The federal parliament’s bipartisan Marriage Law Survey...
RELATED NEWS & PUBLICATIONS
Royal Commission Into Cricket Australia?
This quote from a Department of Industry report on declining annual business entry rates tells you all you need to know about government reports: “I find it quite puzzling… this...
Rivers Of Gold – How The Trade Union Movement Is Funded By Industry Super
Superannuation has been a relevant public policy consideration in Australia since at least 1915, when the Income Tax Assessment Act 1915 created a taxation exemption for superannuation fund...
How The Trade Union Movement Is Funded By Industry Super
A new report released today by the Institute of Public Affairs uncovers millions of dollars being used to fund the union movement in the form of industry super fund directors’…
Religious Freedom Review
“Section 18C must be included in any review of religious freedoms,” said Morgan Begg, research fellow at the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. The Coalition...
Fellow Citizens
The High Court’s decision last month to disqualify five federal parliamentarians for being dual citizens represents the worst excesses of judicial activism in Australia. In deciding that deputy PM...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
I Would Say Both
The federal government’s rejection of the so-called Indigenous Voice in Parliament is a victory for equality and liberal democracy, as the IPA’s Simon Breheny explained in our new...
Talking Point: Public Policy Questions A Matter For Us All
While seemingly a win for freedom of speech, the High Court’s decision highlights why we shouldn’t rely on the judiciary to resolve contentious public policy questions. Two weeks ago the…
Originally appeared in The Mercury
How Our Threatened Species Program Is Costing Us Dearly
The future prosperity of regional Australia is threatened by unnecessary regulatory roadblocks. All industries, but particularly those in regional Australia, are subject to a byzantine array of...
Originally appeared in Queensland Country Life
Decentralising The Protection Of Australian Threatened Species
With business creation and investment in Australia in precipitous decline, it is critical that all levels of Australian government undertake reforms to reduce red tape to achieve minimum best...
Decentralise Threatened Species Regulation
The responsibility for protecting threatened species should be returned to the States, according to a new report released today by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs...
They Gave A Nobel Prize To The Nanny State
Before Wednesday, the Netherlands hadn’t had a government since their election on 15 March 2017. Let’s see how that worked out for them: They have reduced the government debt ratio to...