Yet another scandal among Australia’s banks suggests the industry is in dire need of a clean-out. Westpac has committed one of the most startling failures of corporate governance in Australian...
As uncovered in The Australian, an Institute of Public Affairs freedom of information request has revealed that the Attorney-General’s department holds in excess of 1,300 documents and...
There are potentially 1300 smoking guns pointing to evidence that the Attorney-General’s Department has been using the power of the commonwealth to target conservatives in Australia. It is not...
Christian Porter wants to end the internet, we tell you why it’s a dumb idea. Heroes and Villains this week include Bjorn Lomborg and why you don’t need to panic about rising sea levels, the Hong...
The brilliant journalist, author and poet Clive James died on Sunday aged 80 after a long battle with cancer. You can read the full chapter that he wrote especially for Climate Change: The Facts...
This essay first appeared as Chapter 22 of the IPA publication, Climate Change: The Facts 2017. Click here to read this as a PDF. When you tell people once too often that the missing extra heat is...
The Federal Attorney General has proposed we treat social media companies as publishers. Will this punish Silicon Valley lefties or silence Australia’s conservative voices for fear of our...
Attorney-General Christian Porter wants social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to be legally liable for defamatory comments made by their users. Right now, the common law can distinguish...
If Scott Morrison and his government want to deliver an economic boom, they should follow the highly successful template of President Trump in the US and cut red tape. New research released today...
“President Trump’s red tape reduction agenda has delivered a once-in-a-generation economic boom in the United States,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research with the free-market think tank the...
The phrase “Go Woke, Go Broke” doesn’t quite apply to Westpac. But it nearly does. Allegations that it breached anti-money-laundering laws 23 million times probably won’t...
Should James Paterson and Andrew Hastie “repent” for their sins of speaking out against the Chinese government? Virginia Trioli might think so but we don’t – we talk to James Paterson to get the...
