IPA Review- Autumn 2020

Victoria’s infrastructure boom is being driven without regard to value, need or the inevitable fiscal reckoning

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Senior Fellow Richard Allsop.  Charles Moore’s magisterial authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher reaches new levels of excellence in this third and final volume. Moore faithfully charts the path to that fateful day in November 1990 when Thatcher resigned the Prime Ministership. He is always sympathetic

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by former Treasury and Reserve Bank official and Chief Economist in the Prime Minister’s office, Andrew Stone.  The prevailing approach to education at the federal level, from both major parties, is to focus overwhelmingly on quantities and inputs, with little interest in quality or actual educational outcomes.

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Campus Coordinator, Theodora Pantelich.  The number of young people supporting or advocating for socialism has risen alarmingly in recent years. Groups such as Socialist Alternative, Stand Up For Socialism and other variations on that theme regularly flood Australian university campuses with material linking capitalism with

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by marketing professional and former editor, Paul Mitchell.  A while back, a respected, long-serving and generally affable Australian university professor undertook a sixhour round trip to a regional area to talk about newspaper cartoonists.   He lectures on electoral politics—among other things—and at his country gig radiated a

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Adjunct Fellow, Matthew Lesh.  A friend warned me I wasn’t going to like what’s up there: “It’s two bad words.” The clock had just struck 6.30am on Friday 13th December at the Queen Elizabeth II convention centre in Westminster. Conservative Party activists, campaign workers, and

This is the editorial from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review by Editor of the IPA Review, Scott Hargreaves.  A Table of Contents can viewed here. IPA Members receive a print edition and online versions of articles are progressively released in the months following publication. To join/subscribe see here. Australia faces a long road back from the current

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by the IPA’s Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, Bella d’Abrera.  This year marks the 250th anniversary of Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook’s landing at Botany Bay on 29 April 1770. Fifty years ago, the 200th anniversary was celebrated across Australia with an array of

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by Research Fellow at the IPA,  Andrew Bushnell.  Awareness is growing that the coronavirus disease might cause two catastrophes. Speaking on the night of 24 March 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison put it this way:   We’re dealing with two crises. We’re dealing with a health crisis

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by Research Fellow at the IPA,  Andrew Bushnell.  Sir Roger Scruton, philosopher and conservative, died on 12 January at the age of 75 after a six-month battle with cancer. Over his career, Scruton published more than 50 works of philosophy, polemic, fiction, and memoir. His speciality was