I’m not going to lie (a first for Strange Times?). But Australia Day troubles me. There’s something slightly creepy about how our government gives a taxpayer funded pat on the head to the very best number one citizen for the year. And it... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by President of the HR Nicholls Society from 1989 to 2009, Ray Evans. John Macarthur, supported by his wife Elizabeth, is rightly recognised as the father of Australia’s merino... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Researcher at the IPA, James Bolt. There’s been a rapid comeback for Abraham Lincoln on the pop culture scene. He is in vogue, with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter depicting... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by student at La Trobe University, Patrick Hannaford. In 1971, Richard Nixon announced the final end of the gold standard with the line ‘we are all Keynesians now’. Whilst... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by corporate strategist and former senior adviser to a federal Treasurer and Attorney-General, Alan Anderson. The collapse of the Soviet Union invalidated at a stroke the... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Director of the Deregulation Unit at the IPA, Alan Moran. Anne Applebaum’s massive study—468 pages plus another 140 pages of notes—analyses the tragic history of Eastern... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. Almost everything in 1970s Britain seemed to be failing. Its industrial economy was in steep decline, crippled by strikes and... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Melbourne based writer, Jeffry Babb. The term ‘Anglosphere’ is often used as a convenient heuristic device to group peoples, economies and societies which are apparently... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Chief Opinion Editor of 'The Australian' and author of 'The Lucky Culture', Nick Cater. In their article Why the press gallery failed us and why they will again in the... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Research Fellow at the IPA, Julie Novak. Last month one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century classical liberalism, James McGill Buchanan, passed away aged... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by the Federal member for Mitchell, Alex Hawke MP. In 1975, Malcolm Fraser’s Liberal government had the largest parliamentary majority in Australian history. The story is now... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch. He was a member of the Council of the IPA from 1986-2000. Rod Kemp, John Roskam, Tony Abbott, friends... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Director of the Deregulation Unit at the IPA, Alan Moran. When politicians want to bury bad news they announce it at a time when nobody is listening. Wayne Swan did this on... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Development Coordinator at the IPA, Lydia Bevege. Of all the warning signs that have signalled the steady decline of the Fairfax media empire, its foray into the world of... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Senior Fellow at the IPA, Sinclair Davidson. One of the key 2013 election battlegrounds will be the state of the economy. If government apologists are to be believed,... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Director of Policy at the IPA, Chris Berg. In 1953 a bitter Bertolt Brecht wrote, ‘Would it not be easier / In that case for the government / To dissolve the people / And... Read more

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Editor James Paterson. Canada’s successful effort to repeal laws that curtail freedom of speech demonstrates that restoring free speech is possible, but far from guaranteed.... Read more