IPA - The Voice For Freedom

The Model of a Modern Major University

IPA Review and Peter Gregory Started 1 May 2015 Freedom of speech,

‘You can’t say “the black kid over there”. No, it’s “the guy with the red shoes.” You can’t even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.’ Those are the words of world famous American...

Western Civilisation

The Wars of the Roses

Carla Schodde Started 1 May 2015 Western civilisation,

A metallic, five-pointed Tudor rose glints menacingly from the dust cover of Dan Jones’ The Hollow Crown, looking suspiciously like the emblem for a new instalment of George R. R. Martin’s A Song...

Finance and Economics

When Monopolies Work

Mikayla Novak Started 1 May 2015 Finance and economics, Government services,

When one of the leading participants in the development of the digital economy writes a book about the essences of business management, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the modern world, it...

Western Civilisation

The Men Who Shaped America

Richard Allsop Started 1 May 2015 Western civilisation,

Anyone seeking to understand the tensions about the scope and size of government in modern democratic societies needs to have an understanding of the titanic struggle between Federalists and...

Ideas and Liberty

American Sniper

James Bolt Started 1 May 2015 Ideas and liberty,

A boy stumbles towards a group of US marines. Chris Kyle (played by Bradley Cooper) watches him from above. The boy is holding something in a cloth, but Kyle cannot see what it is. The cloth comes...

Finance and Economics

Reforming Taxation Isn’t About Increasing Taxes

Peter Hendy Started 1 May 2015 Finance and economics, Government services,

In the United States they say that the states are the ‘laboratories of democracy’. What they mean is that a federal system—made up of a separate national government and numerous regional (state)...

Constitution and Law

Chipping Away at Freedom

Simon Breheny Started 1 May 2015 Constitution and law,

Australians’ legal rights are under an ongoing assault. Every year new laws are passed that undermine the principles of the legal system which are designed to protect our liberty. These principles...

Foreign Affairs and Trade

Who’s Afraid of More Free Trade

Khalil Hegarty Started 1 May 2015 Foreign affairs and trade,

There were few bright spots for the Coalition government in 2014, but trade was definitely one of them. Where the Gillard-Rudd governments had made overtures to Asia, spouting rhetoric about the...

Government Services

Net Neutrality is Techno Socialism

Peter Gregory Started 1 May 2015 Government services,

Net neutrality is a grab-bag of cartoonish anti-corporate populism. The introduction of net neutrality rules by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late February is a threat to the...

Red Tape

Australia at the Crossroads

Patrick Hannaford Started 1 May 2015 Red tape,

At the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, Australia’s economy was the envy of the world. Economic reform and fiscal responsibility had unleashed Australia’s potential and the mining boom was in...

Finance and Economics

Growth is Good

Christian Kerr Started 1 May 2015 Finance and economics,

Growth is good. Growth works. True: ‘growth works’ doesn’t sound as catchy as the first. But it’s quite hard to argue against either position. Liberal governments, state and federal, are...

Ideas and Liberty

Laffer’s Lessons

IPA Review Started 1 May 2015 Ideas and liberty,

On 18 March 2015, the IPA was delighted to host Dr Arthur Laffer, a well-known economist and creator of the Laffer Curve, who also served as Reagan’s economic adviser during his presidency...

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