This week James and Pete discuss the Royal Commission into the banks, Kanye West’s big week on Twitter and two free speech cases in Britain. We talk to IPA Policy Director Simon Breheny to get his...
The thousands of Australians who enlisted to fight in the First World War did so because they believed that their liberties were under threat. They fought for freedom and democracy. However...
For the last few years, there has been a growing annual assault against Australian identity. It starts off in early January, a rude awakening from New Year’s celebrations, and rises to a crescendo...
IPA Director of Policy, Simon Breheny, and Research Fellow, Daniel Wild, today appeared before the Senate Economics Committee inquiry into the commitments made by the Business Council of Australia...
Below is an extract from the IPAs submission to the Senate Economics References Committee This Senate Inquiry is highly questionable. It refers to an undertaking made by private companies in...
Writing in these pages Professor Peter Swan AO has forwarded several arguments against the federal government’s proposed company tax rate changes. While he is a giant of the profession and a...
This week James and Pete talk the anniversary that has the whole nation talking, the latest with Sam Rahim, the hot water than Sean Hannity is in, the ACTU’s call to increase the minimum wage and...
In the 1980s, the Labor Party implemented the Liberal Party’s policies. Three decades later, policy has come full circle. Today, the Liberal Party is implementing the Labor Party’s...
The ACTU’s proposed minimum wage hike would destroy 115,000 jobs, the IPA has calculated based upon modelling developed by economist and Labor MP Andrew Leigh. The ACTU are claiming that their...
Our new research brief discusses Australia’s alarming GST problem. IPA research has found that the states that are responsible for contributing the most to the GST pool – New South Wales...
“The decision by the Northern Territory government to lift the ban on the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of onshore gas will create jobs, drive down energy prices, and boost economic...
Emily Thornberry’s call for Theresa May to apologise for Britain’s “historic wrongs” has caused bemusement here in Australia and doubtless other Commonwealth countries. What exactly is it that the...
