Richard Allsop
Senior Fellow
Richard Allsop is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.
When Richard began at the IPA as a Research Fellow in 2006, he focused on issues around the delivery of public transport services and infrastructure projects. He completed a study of the results of the privatisation of public transport services in Victoria and a paper on transport reform in Western Australia. Richard brought an extensive understanding of transport issues to the IPA, having been Chief of Staff to two Victorian Transport Ministers in the 1990s.
Richard also did significant work on nanny state issues, particularly in relation to gambling. In more recent years, Richard’s work at the IPA has focused on the “Foundations of Western Civilisation” program and writing about Australia’s political, cultural and intellectual history. He has written for a range of publications including The Australian, The Age and Spectator Australia, and contributed a chapter to the book, The Premiers of Victoria 1856-2006. In 2014, the IPA published Richard’s Liberalism: A Short History.
Away from the IPA, other roles Richard has held include being Media Adviser to the Federal Assistant Treasurer, a Senior Associate at Globe Communications, Director - Government Relations for The Agenda Group, and Chair of the Board of the Public Transport Ombudsman Victoria. He has co-authored two books of football history, and has worked on election night coverages for various television networks since 1990.
He has a BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in history from Monash University.
13 August 2012
How Western Civilisation Came To Be
This article from the August 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. Penguin is producing an eight-volume history of Europe from antiquity to the end of the 20th century. Interestingly, the works are not appearing in chronological order this volume, which kicks things off chronologically, is actually the fourth to be published.
20 April 2012
Howard’s Fault?
This article from the April 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. The Slap is full of swearing. As Danielle Williams, the Book Club Leader at the Sydney Writers’ Centre, advised potential readers ‘if you’re easily offended by swearing (and real swearing!) then this isn’t for you’. She explained that most of
17 April 2012
Correcting The Infrastructure Deficit
This article from the April 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. It seems we used to get a lot more infrastructure before we had the word ‘infrastructure’. Indeed, these days we rarely hear the word ‘infrastructure’ without ‘backlog’ following close behind. The word ‘infrastructure’ came into common usage amongst urban planners,
31 October 2006
Australia’s 13 Biggest Mistakes
Far from the wars of Old Europe, relatively immune to the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century, and endowed with ample land and resources to fit a country many times our population, Australia has had a lot going for it. However, this also means that we can be squarely blamed for some of the disastrous policies enacted by governments either propelled
