IPA Review- November 2016

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Communications Coordinator at the IPA, James Bolt. Author Lionel Shriver raised a lot of controversy at this year’s Brisbane Writers’ Festival for her defence of cultural appropriation in literature. She argued that authors should be able to borrow the experiences of people from

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Engagement manager for the IPA, Stuart Eaton. For years, we have heard about the incredible population growth that Australia will experience over the next 50 years, rising from about 24 million at present to more than 41 million in 2061. The changes and

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Communications coordinator at the IPA, James Bolt. When the Marquis de Lafayette returned to the USA in 1824—his first since visit fighting with the Americans in the War of Independence—a crowd of 80,000 greeted him at New York Harbour. Back then, New York

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Research Fellow at the IPA, Darcy Allen. Libertarians hail the wonders of ‘private governance’—the idea that left to their own devices, free people will organise themselves without needing the coercive power of the state. To others, however, this libertarian view is akin to

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Researcher at the IPA, John Hajek. Anyone with an ear to the ground of political discourse must be aware of the intensifying obsession with inequality, oppression, poverty, privilege, racism and colonialism. Terms like these form the bulk of the vocabulary of the modern

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Senior Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. In 1918, Australia played a larger role in world events than it ever had before and, perhaps, ever will.’ This is the bold conclusion of first-time author Adam Wakeling in his stimulating account of Australia’s role

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Research Fellow at the IPA, Peter Gregory. On November 25 last year, Barack Obama signed what one commentator described as ‘the most sweeping legislative recognition of property rights in human history’. The cause for such a grand claim? The US Commercial Space Launch

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Director of Future of Freedom at the IPA, Bella d’Abrera. The day before 52 per cent of Britons voted to exit the European Union, Jean-Claude Juncker declared that he was ‘not a big fan of referendums’. His colleague Donald Tusk, clearly not a

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Adjunct fellow at the IPA, Georgina Downer. It’s high time we acknowledged the crisis facing free market economics in Western democracies. The legacies of Reagan, Thatcher and the Hawke/ Keating/Howard economic reforms of the 1980s and 90s are now in serious need of

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Media and Communications manager at the IPA, Evan Mulholland. In July 2016 the New South Wales government banned greyhound racing and subsequently shut down an entire industry. When making the decision, Premier Mike Baird said ‘a sport which utilises animals cannot operate without

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by IPA Adjunct Fellow Father James Grant and IPA Research Fellow Morgan Begg. Throughout the German occupation of Poland during World War II, Polish Catholic clergy were subjected to aggressive methods of imprisonment and extermination. The Soviet regime sought to eradicate what it meant

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Senior Fellow at the IPA, Dr Jennifer Marohasy. There are certain things best not discussed at dinner parties and gatherings of the extended family. This list used to only include religion, sex and politics. More recently ‘climate change’ has become a sensitive issue.

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Research Fellow at the IPA, Matthew Lesh. The most significant political transformations in human history originated as rebellions against unfair taxation. The Magna Carta and the Glorious Revolution, establishing the principles of the rule of law and parliamentary sovereignty, were responses to excessive

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Director of Research at the IPA, Brett Hogan. On 3 May 2016, in his first budget as treasurer, Scott Morrison took the nation by surprise when he announced significant changes to the taxation and regulatory treatment of superannuation. Now both the Coalition and

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Research Fellows at the IPA, Darcy Allen and Daniel Wild. Earlier this year in central Victoria, an orchid stopped a gold mine. The plant was growing seven kilometres away from the proposed mine site—a treeless, badly eroded 15 hectare block grazed by sheep

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, Morgan Begg. The tide has well and truly turned in the free speech debate. In the space of just 12 months, the momentum is now undeniably in favour of reforming section 18C of the Racial

This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by the Editor of the IPA Review, Chris Berg. Policy change doesn’t happen overnight. Supporters of freedom of speech were palpably disappointed that the Abbott government abandoned its promise to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act in August 2014—branding it a ‘needless