The End of History in Australian Universities
We are constantly looking for our origins, in the hope they will hint at our future. It should be a concern that few Australian universities offer British history to undergraduates,…
Pulling Down the Anzac
For decades, left-wing historians have persistently maintained that the Great War was a series of mistakes and was ultimately meaningless. Author Mervyn F. Bendle’s latest book explores the...
Blowing Smoke
So public health advocate Simon Chapman reckons that charities that feed starving people in developing countries shouldn’t accept donations from tobacco companies. Lol. In a recent piece in The...
New Money
When governments lavishly print money, citizens are helplessly left watching their savings erode. This is the cost of centralised government monopoly over currency. But cryptocurrencies, such as...
Small ‘l’ Liberals
Victoria was once ‘the jewel in the crown’ of the Liberal Party. As well as providing six of the first seven Federal leaders of the party, the Victorian Liberal Party…
Personality in Politics
Winston Churchill, so Boris Johnson claims in his latest book, is ‘the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic…
Revolution or Rant
Revolution is Brand’s 350- page rallying cry for the overthrow of civilisation. Brand’s dissatisfaction with the way things are came to light in the now-famous Newsnight interview he had...
In the Beginning…
Why the Magna Carta? The question of what is special about the Magna Carta goes to the heart of any discussion about the enduring significance of what happened at Runnymede…
Free Markets and Tolerance
If you’re an avid reader of the IPA’s Hey…What did I miss, you would have come across a recent article in The Conversation claiming Adam Smith was racist. In the…
The Life Saving Potential of Coal
Australia’s mining industry could lift millions out of poverty, writes Brett Hogan. Coal is the world’s cheapest and most reliable source of electricity. It powered the Industrial Revolution and...
When is Free Speech Free?
Should we draw lines around free speech and the truth? asks Eli Bernstein The recent shooting at the ‘Draw Mohammad’ event in Texas, like the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris…
The Beginning of Libertarianism in Australia
For forty years, libertarianism has been an important voice in public debate, explains Richard Allsop A lot happened in Australia in the summer of 1974- 75. Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin,…