Peter Gregory

Research Fellow

Peter Gregory is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. He focuses on development economics, entrepreneurship in developing countries, free market solutions to poverty and sport. He has also been an author and member of the editorial team for the IPA’s weekly email Hey… What did I miss?

Peter has featured on ABC Radio National as well as various state and community radio stations and his articles have appeared in most major Australian newspapers including The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Courier Mail. He has also had pieces published in major newspapers in South Africa, Cambodia, Uganda and India.

He was the presenter in the IPA’s Free Markets: The Key to Human Flourishing in Cambodia video shot on location in Cambodia.

Peter has presented his work at various conferences around Australia, the United States and at Oxford University. In 2014 he was a member of the Planning Group for the Y20 conference in Sydney – the youth counterpart of that year’s G20 conference.

Prior to joining the IPA Peter worked in the Latin America, Middle East and Asia Team at World Vision Australia and in the Research and Development Team of the Small Enterprise Foundation - a microfinance institution in South Africa.

He joined the IPA after becoming disillusioned with the prevailing poverty alleviation orthodoxy of the development sector.

Peter completed an Honours degree in Political Science at Monash University and is in the final stages of a PhD in development economics at RMIT.

Your Train Has Been Cancelled
14 March 2019

Your Train Has Been Cancelled

“He talks about finding meaning in life” was what AFL footballer Tom McDonald told us appealed to him about Jordan Peterson on the 100th episode of The Young IPA Podcast this week. John Roskam also joined us for our special 100th episode and said the IPA’s “aim within the next two years is to be interacting every single day with 10%
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 100 with Tom McDonald and John Roskam
12 March 2019

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 100 with Tom McDonald and John Roskam

It’s our 100th episode! We talk some concerning figures coming out about Australia’s economy, the latest with Brexit, Milo Yiannopolous’ visa fight and Americans aren’t willing to pay more than $10 a month to fight climate change. James and Pete talk to AFL footballer Tom MacDonald about his experience at Dr Jordan Peterson’s event in Melbourne, how he uses Peterson’s
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 99 with Daniel Wild & Dr Bella d’Abrera
5 March 2019

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 99 with Daniel Wild & Dr Bella d’Abrera

Michelle Guthrie’s payout from the ABC remains a secret, Brexit hardliners begin to extend the olive branch, another YA novel gets pulled from publication because of insensitivity, Washington Post attempts to almost apologise for the way they covered the Covington kids and James and Pete get into an actual debate over reports Trump is going to make an executive order
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Us Plebs Don’t Know How Hard Hollywood Actors Have It
2 March 2019

Us Plebs Don’t Know How Hard Hollywood Actors Have It

Bill Shorten can’t tell Australians what the economic cost of his Climate Change Action Plan will be. Luckily BAEconomics has done it for him – a minimum of $264 billion in foregone GNP by 2030. Here are the respective costs of the climate change policies of the ALP and Coalition and the IPA’s plan to tackle climate change: The good news is,
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 98 with Warren Mundine, Jacinta Price & Richard Krohn
26 February 2019

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 98 with Warren Mundine, Jacinta Price & Richard Krohn

James and Pete managed to watch all of Jordan Peterson’s Q&A and had some thoughts. The Venezuela situation is getting worse, the Press Council gives Mark Knight’s Serena cartoon a pass, Scott Morrison announces his new energy policy and Pete called it – Elizabeth Warren would call climate change a national emergency. Gideon Rozner sits down with Warren Mundine and
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You Don’t Need The Government To Blow Up The Death Star For You
21 February 2019

You Don’t Need The Government To Blow Up The Death Star For You

“If we would just be a little bit braver we’d realise there’s power in numbers”. That was Dave Rubin’s message for the silent majority standing up to radical progressives from our 50 min chat with him this week for The Young IPA Podcast  Follow The Young IPA Podcast here on iTunes, or any podcast platform you use so you never
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 97 with Dave Rubin
19 February 2019

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 97 with Dave Rubin

Why Trump’s national emergency declaration over the wall shows the US President has too much power, why staging your own attack is not a good PR move and why men eating meat is causing climate change. We sit down with Dave Rubin to talk touring with Jordan Peterson, what is next for the intellectual dark web, the rise of new
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WATCH NOW: Dave Rubin Full Interview with The Young IPA Podcast
19 February 2019

WATCH NOW: Dave Rubin Full Interview with The Young IPA Podcast

Dave Rubin, host of the Rubin Report, sits down with The Young IPA Podcast to talk touring with Dr Jordan Peterson, the future of the intellectual dark web, the rise of new media and why he’s optimistic about the future. Listen to The Young IPA Podcast on all podcast platforms!
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 96 with Dr Stephen Hicks and Andrew Bushnell
12 February 2019

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 96 with Dr Stephen Hicks and Andrew Bushnell

We are in deep, deep mourning as Tony Jones confirms he will be stepping down from Q&A, but now beings the people’s campaign to get Nina to host. There’s more stories of police arresting people for tweeting in the UK, Alexandria Orcasio Cortez’s New Green Deal goes off the rails and PragerU files a new lawsuit against YouTube and Google
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 95 with Morgan Begg and Gideon Rozner
5 February 2019

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 95 with Morgan Begg and Gideon Rozner

Yumi and KAK stole the headlines but the real story was Jacinta Price’s Facebook account being suspended. An author cancels a book before it’s published because it’s not woke enough and the Covington kids lawyer up and so should half of Twitter. And finally, at long last, the government is cracking down on sports cheating. We talk to IPA Research
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