IPA Review – August 2018

IPA Review – August 2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS – AUGUST 2018

Editorial

Scott Hargreaves

It was an interesting process by which Kanye West came to grace the cover of the IPA Review, not previously noted for its coverage of rap artists.

Hope and Tax Cuts in Iowa

Gideon Rozner

What can Australia learn from middle America?

Our English Inheritance

Stephanie Forrest

Tracing the roots of the unique English parliamentary system we enjoy in our liberal democracy.

Dragon Energy

Morgan Begg

A nerdish cartoonist and a charismatic rapper find themselves on the same side of the culture war, as Trump’s persuasive talents rewrite the rules of politics.

Ye vs The People

Gideon Rozner

An unusual rap breaks the mould

Boondoggling Australia

IPA Researchers

Big government loves promising big dollars to big projects, leaving ticking debt bombs in the path of future generations.

Banking On Competition

John Dahlsen

Overregulation and red tape in banking has destroyed competition to the detriment of consumers.

Rediscovering Australian Liberalism

Zachary Gormann

Liberalism in Australia has a proud, much older history than the Liberal Party.

Red Tape Corrodes Democracy

David Kemp

The more government regulates its people, the more it fails them.

A Carbon Neutral Climate

Jennifer Marohasy

John Abbot

Investigating what the world’s climate would be like if the Industrial Revolution had never happened.

Defending Religious Liberty

Morgan Begg

It is time to change laws that are restricting religious liberty, an essential feature of freedom and liberal democracy.

Nobody Wins In Global Trade War

Matthew Lesh

Australia has much to lose in the looming global trade war.

When Two Tribes Go To War

Matthew Lesh

Tribalism is splitting the United States down cultural and political lines, and Matthew Lesh fears Australia is heading in the same direction.

Secrets And Sabotage

Richard Allsop

A new Richard Nixon biography uncovers more murky behaviour by the controversial president.

Strange Times

James Bolt

Editorial - Scott Hargreaves

Revolt of the Celebrities

Featured Articles


A Carbon Neutral Climate
Jennifer Marohasy

A Carbon Neutral Climate

Jennifer Marohasy and John Abbot investigate what the world’s climate would be like if the Industrial Revolution never happened. What if there’d never been an industrial revolution? What if the ‘dark satanic mills’ decried by William Blake had never been built, and the fossil fuels stayed in the ground? According to official climate bodies like the International Panel on Climate
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Dragon Energy
Morgan Begg

Dragon Energy

Mega-popular music artist Kanye West caused mass outrage with a series of Twitter posts in April 2018. The controversial rapper wore a Trump-style Make America Great Again cap and expressed his support for black conservative activist Candace Owens. Soon after, cartoonist and author Scott Adams of Dilbert fame broadcast a video online titled ‘Kanye West showed the way to the
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Ye vs the People
Gideon Rozner

Ye vs the People

One of the world’s most influential rap musicians, Kanye West is notorious for his colourful and often outlandish public persona. But nothing in West’s career of some 20 years has been as controversial as his revelation that he is – quelle horreur – a Trump supporter. West’s support for the president came to light shortly after the 2016 election, with
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Hope and Tax Cuts in Waterloo Iowa
Gideon Rozner

Hope and Tax Cuts in Waterloo Iowa

What can Australia learn from middle America? Gideon Rozner heads deep into Iowa to find out (This article first appeared in the August 2018 edition of the IPA Review. PDF of article here.) Even by the standards of smaller airports in Australia, Iowa’s Waterloo Regional Airport is conspicuously spartan. One boarding gate, one baggage carousel and only two flights daily
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Banking on Competition (by John Dahlsen).
John Dahlsen

Banking on Competition (by John Dahlsen).

Overregulation and red tape in banking has destroyed competition to the detriment of consumers, argues former ANZ Director, John Dahlsen. [This article first appeared in the IPA Review of August 2018 (PDF here), and an edited extract ran in the Australian Financial Review on 21 August, 2018.] Banks are very powerful. Banks have a huge influence on our economy and our lives. Banking,
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Boondoggling Australia
Daniel Wild

Boondoggling Australia

When politicians are tempted by a big vision, fiscal prudence is rarely front of mind. Once there are nine or more digits after the dollar sign, the numbers are so ridiculously large that politicians lose their grip on everyday logic and fiscal restraint flies out the window. In the US they call them boondoggles: big government projects that make politicians
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