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 141 – Bushfires, Megxit And We Toast The End Of Lockout Laws
16 January 2020

The Young IPA Podcast Episode 141 – Bushfires, Megxit And We Toast The End Of Lockout Laws

We are back for our first episode of 2020! We talk the big stories from over the break – the Australian bushfires and the actual solutions we should pursue and Megxit where we debate whether or not we’d be a royal. Heroes and villains this week include the Taiwanese people in their election, the Iranian protestors, PETA campaigning against cheese
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The Young IPA Podcast Episode 140: Brendan O’Neill Reacts To UK Election And Grunt The Pig Decides Hero Of The Year
19 December 2019

The Young IPA Podcast Episode 140: Brendan O’Neill Reacts To UK Election And Grunt The Pig Decides Hero Of The Year

  It’s the last show of the year, but it’s a big one! James and Adam Schlicht run through the British elections before the first of our big guests arrive: Grunt The Pig, the pig of freedom himself, joins the show to decide who the Hero of the Year is between the Hong Kong protestors and the Iranian female soccer
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The Right Climate For Optimism
19 December 2019

The Right Climate For Optimism

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by IPA Research Fellow and co-host of the Young IPA Podcast, Peter Gregory. Doom and gloom are rife among young people over the state of the environment. Tragically, we have seen children present with depression and anxiety over fears the world is ending. Young couples have announced they
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Episode 139: Mikhaila Peterson On The Rise Of Jordan Peterson nd her Lion Diet
12 December 2019

Episode 139: Mikhaila Peterson On The Rise Of Jordan Peterson nd her Lion Diet

The flags fly at half-mast on the podcast this week as Tony Jones’ last Q&A airs – we share our favourite moments from the Jones era, before providing a last minute British election guide and offer our predictions – loser has to wear the dunce hat in the office next week. In heroes and villains watch James hear the phrase
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The Young IPA Podcast Episode 138: Should Pill Testing Be Legal And Is Pete Too Old To Go To Festivals?
5 December 2019

The Young IPA Podcast Episode 138: Should Pill Testing Be Legal And Is Pete Too Old To Go To Festivals?

  A few weeks ago we broke the story of Andrew Cooper being investigated by the Attorney General’s department for organising CPAC. Evan Mulholland tells us the results of his subsequent Freedom of Information request to the department – they won’t hand over any documents, but there are 1,300 of them. We discuss what that means (1:15-8:50). We also talk
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The Young IPA Podcast Episode 137 – Christina Hoff Sommers Sent A Dog To A Safe Space & The Government Wants To Kill The Internet
28 November 2019

The Young IPA Podcast Episode 137 – Christina Hoff Sommers Sent A Dog To A Safe Space & The Government Wants To Kill The Internet

Christian Porter wants to end the internet, we tell you why it’s a dumb idea. Heroes and Villains this week include Bjorn Lomborg and why you don’t need to panic about rising sea levels, the Hong Kong people standing up for democracy in their elections, the town that cancelled Christmas and Sacha Baron Cohen’s speech on social media regulation. We
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The Young IPA Podcast Episode 136: Senator James Paterson Won’t “Repent” On China & The Future Of Vaping In Australia
21 November 2019

The Young IPA Podcast Episode 136: Senator James Paterson Won’t “Repent” On China & The Future Of Vaping In Australia

Should James Paterson and Andrew Hastie “repent” for their sins of speaking out against the Chinese government? Virginia Trioli might think so but we don’t – we talk to James Paterson to get the full story. Heroes and villains this week includes Jeremy Corbyn’s rightly calling the NHS communism, the ABC for doing our jobs for us, the world’s biggest
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The Young IPA Podcast Episode 135: Bridget Phetasy & Dave Sharma MP
14 November 2019

The Young IPA Podcast Episode 135: Bridget Phetasy & Dave Sharma MP

Pete doesn’t mind the Greens playing politics with Australia’s bushfires – it’s just that they’re wrong. Heroes and villains this week includes the Geelong council that won’t declare a climate emergency, the beer company telling everyone Epstein didn’t kill himself, Q&A cancelling itself and Hillary Clinton’s Book of Gutsy Women not including Thatcher.   We talk to comedian, podcaster and
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The Young IPA Podcast Episode 134: Senator Matt Canavan, Andrew Cooper and Australia’s New 18C
7 November 2019

The Young IPA Podcast Episode 134: Senator Matt Canavan, Andrew Cooper and Australia’s New 18C

  Race Has No Place in our Constitution, but apparently if you believe that you’re a bigot. James and Pete talk the IPA’s latest video and some of the reaction it’s been getting as well as the incredible story about FITS this week, with Andrew Cooper being investigated without a warrant by the Attorney General’s department for inviting conservatives into
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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 133: We Realise We Need Tony Jones
31 October 2019

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 133: We Realise We Need Tony Jones

This week’s Young IPA Podcast is live! Watch now on our new Young IPA Podcast YouTube channel or download now on any podcast app. For Apple Podcasts/iTunes click here.    Climate change protesters are in protesting in Melbourne…again. This time they’re spitting on people! The UK Parliament finally agrees on a December election and the ACCC is taking Google to
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