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Sell the ABC

Chris Lewis Started 1 April 2016 Government services,

To fulfil its role as a public broadcaster the Australian Broadcasting Corporation no longer requires government funding. Notwithstanding the Essential public opinion polls in 2013 and 2014...

Climate Change

The Judgement of Paris

Khalil Hegarty Started 1 April 2016 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

On December 12 2015, headlines stated that the newly concluded United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Paris was a success, and world leaders managed to complete...

Constitution and Law

Race Has No Place in Constitutional Reform

Simon Breheny and Morgan Begg Started 1 April 2016 Constitution and law,

In 1967 Australians voted in favour of a constitutional referendum proposal in greater numbers than had ever been achieved before, and has ever been achieved since. That referendum removed racial...

Why Mark Steyn Matters

John Roskam Started 1 April 2016 Freedom of speech,

‘Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive’. For me, that’s one of the most important things Mark Steyn said on his tour of Australia with the IPA in February 2016. It’s funny, insightful...

Healthy competition Is Good For Children

Hannah Pandel Started 10 February 2016 Education and skills, Faith and society,

‘It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, only that you tried and did your best.’ This is often said to help children come to terms with suffering a defeat of some sort. In fact...

When in Rome: Taxes and Outrage in Ancient Rome

Stephanie Forrest Started 18 December 2015 Finance and economics, Western civilisation,

This article first appeared in the December 2015 edition of the IPA Review: Over the course of Rome’s long history, taxation was frequently a source of outrage and grief. Indeed there is a basic...

Lessons From Private Cities

Darcy Allen Started 10 December 2015 Innovation and entrepreneurship, Planning and housing,

Cities are complex creatures in constant flux. Some cities grow and thrive, while others wither and die. A tussle between top-down regulation (by governments) and bottom-up decision-making (by...

The Case for Personal Income Taxation Cuts

Darcy Allen Started 5 December 2015 Finance and economics, Government services,

Tax reform would benefit by following one simple motif: don’t tax what you want more of. It follows that cutting income tax rates should be a boon for the Australian economy-freeing up...

Western Civilisation

Cicero Orator and Statesman

Stephanie Forrest Started 1 December 2015 Western civilisation,

Robert Harris’ fictional trilogy provides an incisive portrait of one of history’s literary giants—Marcus Tullius Cicero—and the turbulent times in which he lived, writes Stephanie Forrest. In a...

Finance and Economics

Economics: An Art or a Science?

Sinclair Davidson Started 1 December 2015 Finance and economics,

Many of Dani Rodrik’s arguments are standard defences of the economics discipline. What is new is the suggestion that economics can remain a science even if it does not follow the scientific...

Government Services

Big or Bigger Government?

Aline LeGuen Started 1 December 2015 Government services,

This edition of the IPA Review focuses on our current political landscape—which has been somewhat unsteady of late. Th e tension within the Coalition federal government was put to rest with...

Climate Change

False Choices

Oliver Waters Started 1 December 2015 Climate change,

In her new book, Naomi Klein sets up a false choice between the capitalism existing today, and a radically non-capitalist alternative, writes Oliver Waters. Naomi Klein’s influential new book...

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