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Richard Allsop
Once Was Woolier
Historian Keith Hancock’s classic work from 1930, “Australia”, provides solid grounds from which to assess our nation’s past and present economic and social problems, writes Richard Allsop. In 1930, young historian W.K. Hancock published a book simply titled Australia. During the 90 subsequent years many other Australian historians have sought to explain the country in a single volume. Indeed, a

John Moses
Our Most Sacred Day
This article from the Autumn 2021 edition of the IPA Review is written by theologian and historian, John Moses. That there is something undeniably religious about Anzac Day ceremonies should not surprise the attentive reader and politically aware citizen. It has to do with ‘civil’ or ‘civic’ religion—a concept used to describe solemn public events in a nation’s history. These acts of commemoration
Book Reviews
Evan Mulholland
Climate For Conspiracies
A new diatribe demonstrates how demonising opponents creates a climate hostile to reasoned policy debate, writes IPA Communications Director Evan Mulholland. Marian Wilkinson is described on the inside of her new book, The Carbon Club, as a “multi-award winning journalist”, but many of the claims read like the ramblings of a conspiracy theorist on Twitter. What it fails to accept
Cian Hussey
Innovation Without Legislation
Innovation is the child of freedom and parent of prosperity.
Innovation is serendipitous, and the history of innovation is almost a history of accidental discovery.
Scott Hargreaves
We’re Weird As It Gets
Can ‘Big Data’—quantitative analysis of massive databases—provide a new way of talking about Western Civilisation; one that sidesteps the cancel culture that aims to kill debate (and careers)?
Richard Allsop
Protected: Penguin The Censorship Killers
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