In Australia, nothing is certain except death, taxes and increases to the minimum wage. And while understandably welcome news for workers, each wage hike tightens the noose around the necks of...
“Like death and taxes, we can always count on a yearly minimum wage hike,” said Gideon Rozner, Director of Policy at the free market think tank Institute of Public Affairs. “Minimum wage decisions...
This article by John Lloyd first appeared in the April 2019 edition of the IPA Review. ACTU Secretary Sally McManus told the ALP National Conference on 18 December 2018 that the trade union...
This article by Augusto Zimmermann first appeared in the April 2019 edition of the IPA Review. When in late 2018 the Federal Minister for Education, Dan Tehan, commissioned Robert French to...
This article by John Roskam first appeared in the April 2019 edition of the IPA Review. According to The Guardian there are more than 1,000 biographies of Churchill. There’s probably not much more...
This article by David Cragg first appeared in the April 2019 edition of the IPA Review. David Cragg is a Life Member of the ALP, and a Trustee of the Victorian Trades Hall & Literary...
What can the results of the EU elections tell us about the future of Britain and the rest of Europe? (1:31-20:14) The Australian federal election was called the triumph of the minor parties...
“The Morrison government must not hold a referendum which would ask Australians to divide themselves by race”, said Daniel Wild, Director of Research with the free market think tank the Institute...
Address to the 2019 Friedman Conference Sydney, Australia, 25 May 2019 Kurt Wallace, Research Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs Although the push to introduce a living wage in Australia may have...
The EU election results have come in and it’s good news for minor parties on both sides. Theresa May has resigned and Anthony Albanese is about to become ALP leader uncontested. A climate ‘die in’...
Is there really a continuing drift away from the major parties in Australian parties? Like many I have in recent years bought into the narrative that we live in an age of political disruption –...
The federal Liberal Party has now won seven of the past 10 federal elections. Yet sometimes you wouldn’t know it. Saturday’s election victory proved that – at least in Canberra – the...
