Since 2013, the federal judiciary has been substantially reshaped, with four appointments to the High Court, along with 30 other appointments to other federal courts. In January 2017, for...
Before it finally announced its intention to amend section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act in March this year, the Turnbull government professed a very strong view on where section…
A provocative speaker at the 2016 World Architecture Festival has thrown his politically correct industry into a tailspin with calls to scrap social housing, privatise public space and stop...
In the darkest days of World War II, military planners considered falling back to protect Australia’s industrial heartland in the south-east, below what became known as the Brisbane Line...
This article first appeared in the April 2017 edition of the IPA Review and is written by IPA Adjunct Fellow Darcy Allen. A provocative speaker at the 2016 World Architecture…
This article first appeared in the April 2017 edition of the IPA Review and is written by IPA Research Fellows Morgan Begg and Andrew Bushnell. Since 2013, the federal judiciary…
Seven years have passed since a campaign for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was launched by disability service providers and several funded advocacy bodies. Its architects...
Aristotle’s conception of human flourishing – Eudaimonia – is best understood by looking at a life lived without it, writes Daniel Wild. Over 2500 years ago Aristotle taught the ultimate…
Edmund Burke is known as the father of modern conservatism, but some historians portray him as a fighter for liberty. Others paint the Anglo-Irish philosopher and statesman as a…
Australia’s bloated bureaucracy stems back to colonial days and just keeps getting bigger, writes William Coleman. ‘Public Servant’—in the sense of ‘government employee’—is an Australianism that...
Paul Keating’s economic reforms put today’s poll-driven politicians to shame, writes Richard Allsop. Almost a decade ago, the IPA Review published a cover story about Paul Keating headlined ‘What...
In the two centuries after 1500, the educated elite of Western Europe began embracing a culture of growth. Scholars and scientists came to believe that continued economic progress was...
