When companies get religion on the “social purpose” of business, they are only going to end up looking bad. If business isn’t careful it will go the way of Christianity. Of...
This week James and Pete discuss President Trump’s new tariffs and the eurosceptic, anti-establishment Italian election results. In honour of our 50th episode we talk to IPA Executive Director...
It’s been almost a year since the United Kingdom formally notified the European Union of its intention to leave the EU. Since then, the UK and EU have been engaged in intense negotiations about...
Food, nutrition and human behaviour are far too complex to be regulated with a star rating system Mandatory food labelling is a bureaucrat’s dream and a consumer’s nightmare. Just take...
It’s almost budget time. That means that every rent-seeker in the country is off to Canberra with their begging bowl: Please Mr Morrison can we have some more? To be fair to Morrison there are an...
The Prime Minister’s recent puritanical edicts regarding relationships between ministers and their staff do not have roots in conservative Christianity, but in progressive Leftism which has an...
This week James and Pete discuss a pretty bad week for the standard of debate in Australian politics, Scott Israel and the latest example of public art waste. We talk to IPA Media and...
Red tape is holding back our entrepreneurs and threatening our economic prosperity, new IPA research has found. Nine of Australia’s top ten largest companies were founded before 1925; by contrast...
From the sandstones to the concrete monstrosities, Australia’s university students are returning to lecture halls and classrooms in coming weeks. This provides an opportune time to ask: are our...
This week James and Pete talk the 18C case against Yassmin Abdel-Magied, the outrage over the new Peter Rabbit movie and Simon Breheny’s appearance on Q&A. We talk to North Korean defector...
Before Malcolm Turnbull prohibited his ministers from having sexual relations with their staff, there’s a few dozen things he should have banned first. For example, he could have banned...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (our ABC) – the main source of news and information for Australia’s ruling elite – often begins its broadcasts with the claim it’s free of bias and...
