This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher at the IPA, Peter Gregory. A wise man once said, ‘If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Development Coordinator at the IPA, Lydia Bevege. Tolstoy famously wrote that while happy families are all alike, unhappy families are uniquely unhappy in their own way. In their... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of Education Standards Institute and author of 'Educating your child: It'snot rocket science', Dr Kevin Donnelly. School funding and the best way to manage Australia’s... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Anaesthetist and Adjunct Associate Professor at Swinburne University's Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Dr Michael Keane. The war on drugs has been raging for decades. Tens of... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Associate at the British TaxPayers' Alliance and lead researcher to the 2020 Tax Commission, Rory Meakin. Australia’s tax system has its problems. Too complicated, too... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the Work Reform and Productivity Unit at the IPA, John Lloyd. The lax governance of Australian trade unions has come into sharp focus over recent months. Allegations... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the Rule of Law project at the IPA, Simon Breheny. In July this year, the AttorneyGeneral’s Department released a discussion paper to guide the Parliamentary Joint... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher at the IPA, Dom Talimanidis. No one doubts that Australian farmers often do it tough. But their number one enemy is not supermarkets, it is big government. In 2010,... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Julie Novak. The Western world’s post global financial crisis stagnation has shaken faith in the idea that central banking and monetary policy... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Associate Editor Richard Lyons. If Tony Abbott is to win office at the next federal election in 2013 he has a massive savings task ahead of him. Despite Wayne Swan’s insistence... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of Policy at the IPA, Chris Berg. Each year the glossy business magazine FastCompany releases a list of what it considers to be the ‘World’s 50 most innovative... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Journalist with 'The Australian', Christian Kerr. Ted Baillieu and revolution aren’t words that you normally see together, but that’s how the report read: ‘A secret audit... Read more

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Editor James Paterson. One of the most common complaints about Australian politics today is that it is too obsessed with the trivial. Instead of focusing on policy, it gets bogged... Read more