Serving judges have no business inserting themselves into contemporary political debates. If they simply can’t help themselves they should leave the bench, and, if they truly want to pursue their...
The next federal election campaign got under way this week. It looks like debt, deficit, and taxation will dominate our lives for the next year or so. Not nearly as exciting as citizenship and sex...
Daniel Wild’s new report How Regulation and Red Tape Makes Families Poorer, was featured in the Australian on Monday, in a news story Regulations ‘send prices soaring, hitting the...
A new report released by the Institute of Public Affairs today, How Regulation and Red Tape Makes Families Poorer, authored by IPA Research Fellow, Daniel Wild, shows how government regulation and...
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...
