La La Land Should Have Campaigned In The Rust Belt
Don’t reform section 18C – just get rid of it, as Simon Breheny said on ABC News 24 on Tuesday: You can watch the IPA’s reaction to the Parliamentary Committee’s report on 18C on Facebook Live...
Demand Remains For Free Speech
It is disappointing that the parliamentary committee charged with looking into one of Australia’s most insidious anti-free speech laws has failed to recommend its repeal. The Parliamentary...
Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
Fake News Meets 18C
Earlier this month Professor Andrew Jakubowitz of the taxpayer-created Cyber Racism and Community Resilience Research Group attempted to debunk a poll commissioned by the IPA showing a plurality...
Originally appeared in The Spectator
Chris Berg’s Response To Question On Notice
Dear Committee, At the Sydney public hearings on the Select Committee on Red Tape on 24 February 2017, Senator Dastyari asked me to take on notice a “large ideological question”...
Immigrants Boost The Economy And Should Be Welcomed
Populism is being mainstreamed in Australia. At a book launch former prime minister Tony Abbott set out an aggressive populist agenda for Australia – presumably a second Abbott government...
Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Four Year Terms Are A Bad Idea
The election of Donald Trump, the vote for Brexit, and the return of One Nation have all threatened the centre-right status quo, while on the left, throwback leaders like Bernie Sanders and Jeremy...
Originally appeared in The Spectator
Legal Rights Persistently Undermined By Parliament
The IPA’s latest report, the Legal Rights Audit 2016, was today featured in the legal affairs section of The Australian ($): An audit of federal legislation has found that the erosion of...
The Coalition Hands Its Values To Hanson
The rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party continues to befuddle the Canberra press gallery and the major political parties. In Western Australia One Nation could hold the balance of...
Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Right Needs Bernardi’s New Voice
In the long run, Cory Bernardi leaving the Liberal Party to start his own conservative movement will help the Liberal Party and will strengthen centre-right politics in Australia. Centre-right...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Legal Rights Audit 2016
Morgan Begg, Simon Breheny and Jake Fraser
24 February 2017
Constitution and law, Ideas and liberty,
This report illustrates the ongoing erosion of legal rights that persists in Australia. This has been measured by an analysis of the content of all legislation passed by the federal parliament in...
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Tax Forms?
Public sector wages have increased more than private sector wages in 8 out of 9 quarters since December 2014: Would that pass the pub test? In November the IPA’s Aaron Lane wrote that the demands...
America Has The Answer For Australia’s Failing Schools
Australia must tackle the highly-centralised structures of public education if we are to stem the long-term decline of Australian students’ performance compared to the rest of the world...
Originally appeared in Sydney Morning Herald