IPA Review- Spring 2019

This article by Paul Monk was published in the Spring 2019 edition of the IPA Review. There is a movement, here and abroad, to see the scientific method in culturally relativist terms, as simply the ‘Western’ approach to gathering knowledge. ‘Indigenous knowledge’ is being touted as a different and complementary approach to science. Developments at a number of universities in Australia suggest

This article from the October 2019 IPA Review is by IPA Director of Research, Daniel Wild. The greatness of test match cricket has been on full display over the Ashes series between Australia and England, hosted by England throughout August and September. The five-test series—which took the teams to London twice, Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester—had the usual twists and turns

This article from the October 2019 IPA Review is by IPA Senior Fellow, Richard Allsop. At a March 1901 banquet in London celebrating the Federation of the Australian colonies, British Liberal Party leader Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman described Australia as “a picture of true Liberalism”. In many ways, Campbell-Bannerman was correct. From unlikely beginnings in 1788, the British Settlement of

Dayne Eckermann is General Manager at Bright New World, which is based in Adelaide, Australia. Nuclear advocates have long felt that once people start to look again at nuclear technology, confront their fears and begin to understand the relationship between the hazards and the actual risks, opposition will soften to the development of nuclear energy. It is remarkable that despite

Topher Field is a filmmaker and self-described optimist and libertarian. His videos on the Murray-Darling have been viewed more than 300,000 times. www.topherfield.net Water has become the most fought- over commodity on the Australian continent today and while it may not be a literal war, it has a very real body count numbering in the hundreds so far and growing

This article from the October 2019 IPA Review is by IPA Research Fellow, Kurt Wallace. For a supposedly free market economy where prices are formed by the market, an inordinate amount of attention is given to a small group of bureaucrats sitting around a table discussing monetary policy on the first Tuesday of each month. The Reserve Bank of Australia

This article by Kyle Williams was published in the Spring 2019 edition of the IPA Review. If you have followed youth and university politics over the past few years you have almost certainly encountered horror stories of a new illiberal generation, as seen in cases of de-platforming at universities and the embrace of identity politics. This makes Robby Soave’s Panic

Recently, in the USA, more than 70,000 psychologists and other “mental health practitioners” signed a petition claiming President Trump is psychologically unfit to serve and should be removed from office, as per the 25th amendment of the constitution. This strikes me as a repeat of history: psychologists unwilling to admit the limitations of their claims to knowledge, yet seeking roles

Diego Ilan Méndez is an actuary employed as an economic risk analyst based in the Buenos Aires office of an international banking group. He has an actuary in economics degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires. On Monday 12 August 2019, one day after Argentina’s primary elections were held, there was nothing to celebrate but a lot to fear. I arrived

This Editorial from the Spring 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by IPA Executive General Manager and  Editor of the IPA Review, Scott Hargreaves Boris Johnson is fighting not just for a United Kingdom free of the European Union, but for the survival of the nation-state as an idea and institution which can withstand the 21st century. The interest