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.

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 64 with Renee Gorman & Stuart Eaton
15 June 2018

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 64 with Renee Gorman & Stuart Eaton

This week James and Pete talk about the Trump/Kim summit, the dance show at a Victorian University that’s segregating its audience and recap a huge week for the IPA. We talk to IPA Campus Coordinator Renee Gorman about the Generation Liberty ‘Capitalism v Socialism’ debate at the University of Sydney, some crazy stories coming out of other Universities and her
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World Cup Winning Aid Scamming
14 June 2018

World Cup Winning Aid Scamming

In many circumstances, poor people in the developing world would actually be better off if their dictators gave their foreign aid money to rich English football clubs. Seriously. Earlier this month it emerged that the Rwandan government has entered into a 30 million pound sponsorship deal with major English football club Arsenal, the team President Paul Kagame just happens to
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 63 with Dr Bella d’Abrera & Johnathan Blanks
8 June 2018

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 63 with Dr Bella d’Abrera & Johnathan Blanks

This week we talk the big news about job numbers out of the US, the Ramsay Foundation story in ANU, CFMEU writing to Julie Bishop asking her to recognise the Venezuela elections, the NSW government’s crackdown on Airbnb and Kanye’s album showing supporting Trump isn’t the career killer people thought it was. We talk to the IPA’s Dr Bella d’Abrera
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Let the EU Tuck You In At Night
7 June 2018

Let the EU Tuck You In At Night

Who knew cutting red tape and taxes would create jobs? The US achieved its lowest unemployment rate since 2000 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May jobs report released on Friday. As this analysis from Heritage explains, unemployment rates for African-Americans, Hispanics and women are at record lows – social impact the #Resistance could only dream of. Hey readers loved The Overthrow of the Great Books by Mark Bauerlein so much when we shared
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 62 with Dr Chris Berg, Claire Lehmann and Ilya Shapiro
1 June 2018

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 62 with Dr Chris Berg, Claire Lehmann and Ilya Shapiro

Bumper episode this week! We talk Australian shoppers blocked from Amazon’s international site due to GST changes, Roseanne being cancelled, the Italian elections, Twitter losing its mind over the ICE photos and Trump signing a Right To Try act. We talk to Dr Chris Berg about his two new books, Against Public Broadcasting and Australia’s Red Tape Crisis, his reflections on the
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The Logic Of Weirdness
29 May 2018

The Logic Of Weirdness

Peter Leeson in a new book explores the rational basis for bizarre cultural practices. How could plunging a person’s arms into a cauldron of boiling water be a relatively accurate indicator of guilt or innocence in medieval Europe? In his new book, WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird, Peter Leeson, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law at George
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 61 with Tom G. Palmer & Jason Clemens
25 May 2018

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 61 with Tom G. Palmer & Jason Clemens

This week James and Pete talk an important new book from the Fraser Institute, whether we need a Race Discrimination Commissioner, the latest with Dr Peter Ridd and the push for gender quotas on government and corporate boards. We talk to Tom G. Palmer about his time smuggling books and photocopiers into communist countries, how he’s helping spread liberty today
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 60 with Mark Bauerlein & Gideon Rozner
18 May 2018

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 60 with Mark Bauerlein & Gideon Rozner

This week James and Pete talk the Royal Wedding (kind of), the ongoing saga of ABC cuts and Spotify’s campaign against “hateful music”. We talk to Professor Mark Bauerlein from Emory University about his recent article on the disappearance of great books from universities and how identity politics is destroying the teaching of literature (10:13-32:48). We also talk to IPA
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They Will Never Take Our Pizza
17 May 2018

They Will Never Take Our Pizza

We should start charging politicians for these lessons! Last week we pointed out the obvious in that cutting spending would reduce debt. Our basic budget lesson for this week? “Tax cuts are not handouts” says Simon Breheny in the IPA’s latest video: But $60 billion in subsidies for renewables is a handout. As Daniel Wild noted while Victorians and South Australians were shivering through a cold
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 59 with Senator James Paterson & Daniel Wild
11 May 2018

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 59 with Senator James Paterson & Daniel Wild

This week James and Pete recap the budget and the ABC cuts that weren’t, the near death of press freedom in Britain and the return of the citizenship scandal in federal politics. We talk to Senator James Paterson about the budget, the libertarian moment happening in the US and the secret to a politician’s high-vis vest & hard hat photoshoot
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