22 September 2022

This article was originally published in The Australian. In this article, The Hon. Tony Abbott contextualises and disseminates the findings of the IPA’s research into Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how that affected Australia’s economic freedom and prosperity. The IPA has been dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic freedom through research and analysis since its

30 March 2022

Only last week, the Northern Beaches rural fire brigades were helping to clean up after the second one-in-100-year flood to hit the Hawkesbury in just 12 months. Yet despite the clinging mud, the ruined furniture, the lost possessions and the financial cost of rebuilding twice, in an area where flood insurance is almost impossible to get, the general sentiment was stoical: the

4 March 2022

Having recently obtained the special permission needed to leave Australia on government business, my fellow advisors to the UK Board of Trade were curious to know how life was going in the place they’d dubbed “Aus-catraz”. Not since the convict era, I suspect, would Britons have regarded their lives as freer and more easy-going than life in Australia but that,

4 August 2021

After COVID and Cancel Culture have incited fear and guilt, it is time to restore the virtues and attitudes that made Australia a country to be proud of, argues IPA Distinguished Fellow Tony Abbott. Back in 1986, John Howard observed that “the times will suit me”. They did not at the 1987 election, but eventually they did, and he went

1 June 2021

All manner of modern manias are consuming Australia, and the way to fix this is to stand for reality. Among the many classic scenes in Life of Brian is the argument over gender between the John Cleese and Eric Idle characters: “I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me Loretta … (because)

21 October 2020

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is from former PM, the Hon Tony Abbott AC, drawing upon his speech to the Policy Exchange in London on 1 September, 2020. How to deal with a potential pandemic was often on my mind during four years [2003 –2007] as health minister in the Australian government of John