The Melbourne City Council just wants you to be happy. Really. Happy. That’s why in October they trumpeted a media release on their website with the heading emblazoned across the page, ‘More than $630,000 awarded to boost Melbourne’s health... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Associate Editor, Richard Lyons. The eminent Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey has produced yet another important work in his A Short History of Christianity. Blainey, who is... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Julie Novak. The welfare state in its existing form, dominated by government financing and provision of payments and services from cradle to grave, is... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. The publication of this new biography of legendary antitariff campaigner, Bert Kelly, is particularly timely. For it was fifty years... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher at the IPA, James Bolt. Have you ever not ordered something at a restaurant because it had strange ingredients, and ordered the roast chicken instead? Ever tried a... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the Deregulation Unit at the IPA, Alan Moran. The Chinese economic miracle is the latest and most comprehensive success story since the end of World War II. Veteran... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by IPA Adjunct Fellow, Jason Potts and Director of Climate Change Policy and the Intellectual Property and Free Trade Unit at the IPA, Tim Wilson. A: Yes, it is- Jason... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Lecturer at the International Graduate School of Business at the University of South Australia, Kesten Green. Since at least the 1960s, advocates have called for firms to be... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Founder and president of the Human Capital Project, John Humphreys. There has never been a successful society that was not based on a system of private property rights. The... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Julie Novak. The Gillard government’s recently released statement on the final budget outcome for 2011-12 shows the level of federal government... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the Legal Rights Project at the IPA, Simon Breheny. Australian barrister and international lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC once gave a speech entitled ‘no-one is above... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the North Australia Project at the IPA, John Shipp. The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell is a well-argued book by a conservative American underappreciated by... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is written by President of Private Doctors Australia and author of 'Problems in Health Care Delivery: Governmnet as Cause not Cure', Brian Bedkober. Commencing with Otto von Bismarck... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the Zionist Organisation of America's Center for Middle East Policy, Daniel Mandel. In a sense, the so-called Arab Spring can be said to have begun on 26 December... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Executive Director of the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance, Tim Andrews. Unintentional self-parody has long being a forte of governments around the world. Yet a movement in... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Nick Evans, a pseudonym for a London-based journalist. Like many sinister concepts, the idea of governments ‘nudging’ people may seem on first glance somewhat innocuous.... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is written by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Editor's note: a public servant wrote this while being paid with your taxes! The National... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is written by Editor James Paterson and Executive Director of the IPA, John Roskam. One of the most revealing stories in modern Australian politics comes from James Button—a... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is written by journalist with 'The Australian', Christian Kerr. ‘The rent seekers are always with us’ Ray Evans declared last month when he launched a new biography of Bert Kelly,... Read more

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Editor James Paterson. Attacks on individual freedom in Australia over the past few years have occurred in some unexpected places. Take, for instance, the unprecedented... Read more

Peter Gregory investigates the introduction of school choice in the United Kingdom (this article first appeared in the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review.) For all the criticism it has received, the Cameron government in Britain has... Read more