IPA Review- October 2012

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John Roskam

Canberra, Unplugged

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Executive Director of the IPA, John Roskam. Australians don’t normally do satire. We’re not quite serious enough. That indispensable The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory helpfully points out that Samuel Johnson defined ‘satire’ as a poem ‘in which wickedness or folly is censured’. John
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Richard Allsop

John Bright: A 19th Century Freedom Fighter

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. John Bright’s fame was so high in the middle of the 19th century that early settlers in the village of Morse’s Creek in north eastern Victoria decided to rename the place, Bright. One imagines that few of the town’s current population
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John Shipp

The Population Conundrum

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the North Australia Project at the IPA, John Shipp. The false dichotomy offered in the title of Ian Lowe’s book Bigger or Better: Australia’s population debate hints at the one-sided polemic contained within. Lowe puts a forthright case for ‘stabilising’ Australia’s population at or near current
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Power And The Years of LBJ

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Senator for Victoria and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Fair Competition, Scott Ryan. There is almost a cult amongst readers of political history and biography: those who count down the years until the release of the next volume of Robert Caro’s totemic biography of Lyndon
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