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Banking Royal Commission: Duplicitous Banks, Foolish Borrowers

Banking Royal Commission: Duplicitous Banks, Foolish Borrowers

John Roskam 8 February 2019 Finance and economics, In the news,

The funniest thing to come out of the Hayne royal commission is a story that appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald on Monday. Titled “I’m amazed they approved me: CBA lashed...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
PUBLICATIONS
Children Lose Out If Academics Shade Literature With Gender Politics

Children Lose Out If Academics Shade Literature With Gender Politics

Bella d'Abrera 8 February 2019 Education and skills, In the news,

The news that academics from Queensland University of Technology are demanding that the selection of texts recommended by the national curriculum should “better reflect the sexual diversity of the...

Originally appeared in The Australian
The Looking Forward Podcast
Special Episode – Churchill: Walking With Destiny

Special Episode – Churchill: Walking With Destiny

John Roskam, Scott Hargreaves and Chris Berg 6 February 2019 Ipa today, The looking forward podcast,

In this special episode of The Looking Forward Podcast Dr Chris Berg and Scott Hargreaves are joined by John Roskam, Executive Director of the IPA to interview former guest of the IPA in 2012...

The Looking Forward Podcast
Episode 3 – 6 February 2019

Episode 3 – 6 February 2019

Chris Berg and Scott Hargreaves 6 February 2019 Ipa today, The looking forward podcast,

On this week’s Looking Forward Dr Chris Berg and Scott Hargreaves are joined by IPA Research Fellow Daniel Wild and RMIT Professor of Institutional Economics Sinclair Davidson. The four look at...

The Young IPA Podcast
The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 95 with Morgan Begg and Gideon Rozner

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 95 with Morgan Begg and Gideon Rozner

James Bolt and Peter Gregory 5 February 2019 Ipa today, The young ipa podcast,

Yumi and KAK stole the headlines but the real story was Jacinta Price’s Facebook account being suspended. An author cancels a book before it’s published because it’s not woke enough and the...

PUBLICATIONS
Labor Is Coming After Apple Pie-Baking Nanas

Labor Is Coming After Apple Pie-Baking Nanas

Daniel Wild 1 February 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

On Thursday, Labor’s Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen said something that a politician is never supposed to utter. At least not in public. In response to those who will face higher taxes under Labor’s...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
PUBLICATIONS
Does The Morrison Government Have The Strength To Slash Red Tape?

Does The Morrison Government Have The Strength To Slash Red Tape?

Daniel Wild 31 January 2019 In the news, Ipa today,

The future of freedom in Australia was dealt a blow at the start of the year with Senator David Leyonhjelm’s announcement that he will be resigning from federal politics to have a tilt at the...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
The Looking Forward Podcast
Episode 2 – January 30 2019

Episode 2 – January 30 2019

Chris Berg and Scott Hargreaves 30 January 2019 Ipa today, The looking forward podcast,

Scott Hargreaves and Dr Chris Berg are joined by Andrew Bushnell and Aaron Lane to discuss Victoria’s blackouts in last week’s heat wave and how to fix energy policy, Buzzfeed laying...

PUBLICATIONS
Labor’s Franking Credits Plan Adds Up To A Nana Tax

Labor’s Franking Credits Plan Adds Up To A Nana Tax

Sinclair Davidson 30 January 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

Australia’s dividend taxation regime is a complex solution to a simple problem. It is well known and understood that double taxation of corporate income gives rise to economic distortions...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
The Young IPA Podcast
The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 94 with Bettina Arndt and John Lloyd

The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 94 with Bettina Arndt and John Lloyd

James Bolt and Peter Gregory 29 January 2019 Ipa today, The young ipa podcast,

The Canberra Swamp costs Australia $8 billion a year, Victoria loses power in a heatwave but it’s the dishwashers that are to blame, Elizabeth Warren becomes the first politician to pursue a...

IPA TODAY
Australians And Their Original Sin

Australians And Their Original Sin

John Roskam 25 January 2019 Ideas and liberty, In the news,

In his book The Strange Death of Europe – Immigration, Identity, and Islam the British writer Douglas Murray compares the attitude many Australians have about their country’s...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
IPA TODAY
New Study Finds 358 Breaches Of Fundamental Legal Rights In Federal Laws

New Study Finds 358 Breaches Of Fundamental Legal Rights In Federal Laws

Morgan Begg 25 January 2019 Constitution and law, Ipa today,

“The erosion of the fundamental legal rights of all Australians have accelerated under federal law in 2018,” says Morgan Begg, Research Fellow at free-market think tank the Institute...

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The hypocrisy of Australia’s anti-coal contingent was exemplified this week by Richard Marles, who is the federal Labor Party’s spokesman for Defence. Mr Marles said “the global market for thermal...

The NAB Board Will Pay A Heavy Price
The NAB Board Will Pay A Heavy Price

The story of the resignation from NAB of its chief executive Andrew Thorburn and its chairman Ken Henry after the Hayne royal commission is instructive. It reveals just how hopeless the boards of...

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