IPA Review – Spring 2020

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by Manager of Online Content and Audio at the IPA, James Bolt. Tired of being blamed for problems you caused? Sick of having to admit to the mistakes you’ve made? Enrol now at the Daniel Andrews School of Avoiding Responsibility. This course uses principles drawn from the

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Research Fellow, Andrew Bushnell. One of the striking features of the coronavirus recession is that, as IPA research has demonstrated, a chart of the economy now displays a ‘K’ shape. The K’s ascending line displays how bureaucrats and the bureaucracy-adjacent are doing fine, while the

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by Private Health Australia’s Policy and Research Director, Ben Harris. If you want to know why private health insurance is expensive in Australia, here are some of the culprits. Private health insurance is highly over-regulated. There are hundreds of pages of laws, rules and regulations dictating what health

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by labour and management historian, Bradley Bowden. Many myths purport to explain union decline in Australia; myth entrenched in labour history and industrial relations scholarship, as well as the union movement more generally. We are told union decline primarily results from attacks by conservative governments “bent on

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by Director of the IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, Bella d’Abrera. This August, the British Museum announced it had relabelled the artefacts collected by Captain James Cook on his voyages to Australia and New Zealand. This collection consists of the staggering number of 9,000 items. One

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Research Fellow, Cian Hussey. In 2017 former captain Francesco Schettino was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in the infamous 2012 shipwreck of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Isola del Giglio, Tuscany. Schettino broke the maritime tradition that the captain

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by company director, Laura Patterson. This is what you should know straight up about Victorian Women: we’re not in lockdown, we’re locked up. As I write this is for 22 hours per day with fines for non-compliance that vary from $1,700 to $5,000. You probably haven’t heard

This is the editorial from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Reviewby 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. It is worth examining why the recent experience in Victoria

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is from former PM, the Hon Tony Abbott AC, drawing upon his speech to the Policy Exchange in London on 1 September, 2020. How to deal with a potential pandemic was often on my mind during four years [2003 –2007] as health minister in the Australian government of John

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Director of Research, Daniel Wild. The Western world is regressing to a form of feudalism similar to that which prevailed in medieval Europe… except with updated technology and greater material abundance. The kinds of opportunities which were once the defining feature of liberal democratic nations

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Adjunct Fellow, Matthew Lesh. Environmental catchcries of the early 21st century are apocalyptic: “Billions of people are going to die,” “life on Earth is dying,” and “Governments aren’t addressing it”. Religious undertones are abundant. It is good and evil. The end is nigh. Human sin

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Director of Policy, Gideon Rozner. I had heard anti-woke novelist Lionel Shriver interviewed many times, but never read any of her stuff until a book of hers that had been recommended to me finally made its way to the top of my ‘iso’ reading pile.

This article from the forthcoming Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by economists Marcus Smith and Dan Petrie. The Queensland state election on 31 October will provide voters with an opportunity to vote on the two crises currently engulfing the State. The first being the COVID-19 crisis that arrived in February this year and the second being