IPA Review – Autumn 2022

IPA Review – Autumn 2022

Editorial - Scott Hargreaves

Let’s Keep The Lights On

Featured Articles

There’s Room For Debate

There’s Room For Debate

Democracy can only work when citizens are both free and keen to hear arguments and speak their minds, argues IPA Senior Fellow Sherry Sufi. Democracy is central to the Australian way of life. We take for granted that it is the best form of government, even if somewhat apologetically as the ‘least bad’ form of government, as if to indemnify

Don’t Bank On Housing

Don’t Bank On Housing

New homes in Australia cost more than they should, and banks have concentrated too much on home loans at the expense of business lending, argues former ANZ director John Dahlsen. The overheated housing market is a deep-seated problem that has existed for some time and unlikely to be solved without fundamental changes. This is a problem for politicians. Any solution

Fuel For Thought

John Kananghinis

Fuel For Thought

Taking advantage of Australia’s huge uranium reserves to generate nuclear power is clearly our best path to prosperity and a better environment, argues communication and marketing expert John Kananghinis. If recent geopolitical events have not caused you to become concerned for future energy security, then you have not been paying attention. Perhaps, not entirely coincidently, the abandonment of the troubled

Book Reviews

Claire Peter-Budge

Ok Boomer, Is That It?

The gap between Boomers and Millennials is as wide as the one between idealism and reality, writes IPA Membership Officer Claire Peter-Budge. Journalist and author Helen Andrews is already interesting as a self-proclaimed conservative in a very woke era, leading from the front in her role as editor of the American Conservative (co-founded by the paleoconservative and former Nixon speechwriter,

Time To Try Freedom

David Kemp chronicles how an ascendant utopian socialism dragged Australia down, until believers in freedom regrouped and fought back, writes IPA Senior Fellow Richard Allsop. It is rare to be able to say when a task is 80 per cent complete that it is already a classic, but that is certainly the case with David Kemp’s landmark five-volume historical study

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Ok Boomer, Is That It?

Claire Peter-Budge

Ok Boomer, Is That It?

The gap between Boomers and Millennials is as wide as the one between idealism and reality, writes IPA Membership Officer Claire Peter-Budge. Journalist and author Helen Andrews is already interesting as a self-proclaimed conservative in a very woke era, leading from the front in her role as editor of the American Conservative (co-founded by the paleoconservative and former Nixon speechwriter,

Time To Try Freedom

Time To Try Freedom

David Kemp chronicles how an ascendant utopian socialism dragged Australia down, until believers in freedom regrouped and fought back, writes IPA Senior Fellow Richard Allsop. It is rare to be able to say when a task is 80 per cent complete that it is already a classic, but that is certainly the case with David Kemp’s landmark five-volume historical study

A Stand For Free Speech

David Martin Jones

A Stand For Free Speech

Modern hate speech laws have their roots in a strange form of modern Puritanism and must be opposed, argues political science professor David Martin Jones. … hate is the verb that to me is superb, And love just a drug on the mart. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art. –

Shadows Over Parliament

David Leyonhjelm

Shadows Over Parliament

Action is needed to uphold the Bill of Rights’ intent to keep the courts out of parliament, argues former Liberal Democrats senator David Leyonhjelm. In the English-speaking world, members of parliament have the right to speak freely in parliament without risking arrest or being sued. The Queen, ministers, governments and officials can all be criticised and corruption exposed. Known as

The Measure Of Liberty

Scott Hargreaves

The Measure Of Liberty

If Australians knew more of how political and economic liberty defeated pessimism and poverty, they’d be more prepared to fight for it now, write IPA Adjunct Fellow Brad Bowden and IPA Executive Director Scott Hargreaves. Australians today are part of a modern and industrialised world that emerged during the ‘long century’ of the Enlightenment; an era of transformative change that

The Poems That Made Us

The Poems That Made Us

Our poets made a unique contribution to Australian nationhood, and on quality alone deserve to be celebrated, writes literary critic PETER CRAVEN. Australian poetry occupies a strange position in Australian literature which is in some ways analogous to (of all things) Australian sport. If we ask why Australians —together with other dominion countries such as New Zealand and South Africa—are

There’s Room For Debate

There’s Room For Debate

Democracy can only work when citizens are both free and keen to hear arguments and speak their minds, argues IPA Senior Fellow Sherry Sufi. Democracy is central to the Australian way of life. We take for granted that it is the best form of government, even if somewhat apologetically as the ‘least bad’ form of government, as if to indemnify

Don’t Bank On Housing

Don’t Bank On Housing

New homes in Australia cost more than they should, and banks have concentrated too much on home loans at the expense of business lending, argues former ANZ director John Dahlsen. The overheated housing market is a deep-seated problem that has existed for some time and unlikely to be solved without fundamental changes. This is a problem for politicians. Any solution

Fuel For Thought

John Kananghinis

Fuel For Thought

Taking advantage of Australia’s huge uranium reserves to generate nuclear power is clearly our best path to prosperity and a better environment, argues communication and marketing expert John Kananghinis. If recent geopolitical events have not caused you to become concerned for future energy security, then you have not been paying attention. Perhaps, not entirely coincidently, the abandonment of the troubled

Let’s Keep The Lights On

Scott Hargreaves

Let’s Keep The Lights On

Australia needs so many debates right now: national security, energy security, national curriculum, climate science, the cost of housing, and national debt, to name but a few. Mainstream Australians want these debates (and action), but those in power—I don’t mean those in Government, I mean those in power—do not. On page 30 IPA Senior Fellow, Dr Sherry Sufi, explains how