IPA Review- Summer 2019

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by Manager of Online Content and Audio at the IPA, James Bolt. I thought I was used to horrifying stories coming out of Canberra, but this month I saw something that’s kept me sleepless ever since. According to the Minerals Council of Australia, more nuclear radiation is emitted

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by the IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Program Researcg Fellow, Zachary Gorman. Of all the crises facing the West today, one of the most pernicious has to be the rise of a cultural and moral relativism which maintains things are neither inherently good nor bad, but rather a

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the IPA Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, Bella d’Abrera. In his masterful new book, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Douglas Murray concentrates on the great preoccupations of the 21st century: social justice, identity politics and intersectionality. He argues these new ideologies of

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by Melbourne artist Mitchell Toy. Editorial cartoons do not seem fair. On any day, a metropolitan newspaper’s columns and homepages are carefully negotiated leaderboards for those whose business is attention. A footballer’s girlfriend who has launched a fashion label jostles for space with a politician desperate to sell

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by then IPA Campus Coordinator for Generation Liberty Program (now a Research Fellow), Cian Hussey. Young Australians are an aspirational bunch. Despite the vocal minority of pessimists who are upset by different opinions on campus, or who believe their lives are somehow worse than their parents’ or grandparents’,

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the IPA Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, Bella d’Abrera. Australia’s colonists were deeply engaged with—and considered themselves very much part of—the ‘conservative Enlightenment’. We know this thanks to a study of the flourishing book trade in the colonial era undertaken by IPA Adjunct Fellow Dr

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by Moira Deeming. When I was in year 12 our school hired a trendy new Principal. She wore shapeless artsy clothes, a severe haircut and thick red-rimmed glasses. Her first act was to drag my entire year level out of their classes to a special assembly where she

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by David Martin Jones. Before this millennium began, the study of international relations (IR) represented a minor field in the politics discipline in Australia. Nevertheless, Australia produced significant scholars and scholar diplomats who helped define the new field after 1919 and more particularly after 1945. Hedley Bull and

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of Research Daniel Wild and IPA Research Fellows Zachary Gorman and Andrew Bushnell. It is an edited extract from ‘Australian Values and The Enduring Importance of the Nation-State’, a research report prepared for the Senate Inquiry. If Donald Trump has achieved nothing else, he has at

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by psychiatry registrar Dr Junjie Ling and retired psychiatrist and IPA member Dr Robert Lyndon. In September 2019, a record 7.6 million people worldwide took to the streets as participants in the Global Climate Strike. Greta Thunberg, the young activist, addressed the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by IPA Research Fellow and co-host of the Young IPA Podcast, Peter Gregory. Doom and gloom are rife among young people over the state of the environment. Tragically, we have seen children present with depression and anxiety over fears the world is ending. Young couples have announced they

This Editorial from the Summer 2019 Edition of the IPA Review is by IPA Executive General Manager and  Editor of the IPA Review, Scott Hargreaves. I wish I’d been in the room in Oslo, Norway, when Dr Peter Ridd and Dr Susan Crockford bumped into each other at a conference in October. As Peter Ridd said afterward, he and Susan