Morgan Begg
Director of Research
Morgan Begg is the Director, Research at the Institute of Public Affairs
Morgan joined the IPA in 2014 to advance a major report into The State of Fundamental Legal Rights in Australia. Since then Morgan has also written a number of research papers, opinion articles, IPA Review essays and submissions to parliamentary inquiries, on a variety of topics, including the issue of judicial appointments, public health restrictions, the GST, and the proposed Voice to Parliament.
Morgan’s interests are in preserving constitutional government and the rule of law, and protecting and extending the rights and freedoms of Australians, such as freedom of speech and religion. He became an admirer of the IPA during the debates surrounding the constitutional recognition of local government, the Gillard government’s Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012, and its ongoing research into section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
16 March 2019
Super Justice Warriors
Captain Marvel, released to cinemas this month, is more than just another addition to the already saturated superhero film market. It is a perfect case study in a social justice takeover of a pop culture franchise. Until now, the Marvel Cinematic Universe films – such as the Avengers films, Black Panther, or Iron Man – have been reliably-inoffensive escapist fiction, if at times
7 March 2019
Did Trump Just Win The 2020 Election?
This should be the biggest story in Australia. We entered into a per capita economic recession in December for the third time in 28 years, according to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday: As the IPA’s Daniel Wild said in The Australian today, governments need to stop relying on population growth through mass immigration and embrace genuine productivity
14 February 2019
AOC Tries To Outdo Australia
The largest coal exporter in the world is working harder than any other country to wind down one of its largest export earners. As Australia: the Renewable Energy Superstar from the Australian National University released on Friday shows, Australia is installing renewable generators more than twice as fast as Germany, and 4 to 5 times faster per capita than the US,
31 January 2019
Government Whittled Away Basic Rights
The IPA’s report Legal Rights Audit 2018, authored by IPA Research Fellow Morgan Begg, was featured in The Australian last week. The audit, by the Institute of Public Affairs, reveals that the Turnbull and Morrison governments stripped away fundamental legal rights 34 times in new pieces of legislation last year. IPA research fellow Morgan Begg said the erosion of fundamental legal rights “accelerated under
25 January 2019
New Study Finds 358 Breaches Of Fundamental Legal Rights In Federal Laws
“The erosion of the fundamental legal rights of all Australians have accelerated under federal law in 2018,” says Morgan Begg, Research Fellow at free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. The IPA’s report Legal Rights Audit 2018, authored by IPA Research Fellow Morgan Begg, was featured in The Australian this morning. It revealed that the legal rights of the
20 December 2018
Hey Readers Love Q&A…If The IPA’s On It
On New Year’s Day, just under 600 million people across the world will still live in extreme poverty. That figure was 930 million in 2010 and by 2030, it is expected to fall to about 430 million: As the Cato Institute’s Marian L Tupy explained last year, Africa too will experience prosperity once its governments embrace free markets, the rule of law and private
14 December 2018
Integrity Body Has Limited Power Now But Just Watch This Space
The only way to ensure vested interests in the federal government don’t misuse their power is to ensure the federal government doesn’t wield so much power in the first place. The Morrison government’s proposed Commonwealth Integrity Commission, designed to sit above the multitude of other special purpose integrity oversight agencies, is a repudiation of bedrock principles of the English legal
13 December 2018
Proposed Religious Freedom Laws Are Dangerous And Counter-Productive
“The Morrison government’s proposed religious discrimination laws will be a ticking time bomb for freedom of belief in Australia,” said Morgan Begg, Research Fellow and author of the Institute of Public Affairs’ submission to the Religious Freedom Review. “You can’t solve the problem of anti-discrimination laws by passing more anti-discrimination laws.” “The only way to protect religious freedom is to
23 November 2018
LGBTIQX-Men
Stan Lee’s contribution to modern pop culture was nearly without comparison. His creations in the pages of Marvel Comics – the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, the Daredevil and many more – have infused Western mythology. Few writers could write the aspirational hero better than Lee, and his creations have said more about responsibility, leadership, integrity and
22 November 2018
Will The EU Army Have Occupational Licensing?
Leadership instability hasn’t stopped the growth of government this year. The year isn’t finished yet, but the federal government has already passed 1,106 more pages than it did in all 2017: An important new report from the Institute of Justice in the US found that occupational licencing red tape cost the American economy at least 1.8 million jobs a year and up
