Books

Die Laughing: The Making of a Free Speech Hero

How does a young man who learns jazz and classical piano, scours Europe’s great art galleries for artistic enlightenment and falls in love with women from all over the world...
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Summoning Magna Carta: Now on Sale

Summoning Magna Carta: Freedom’s Symbol Over a Millennium, is the follow-up to Magna Carta: The Tax Revolt That Gave Us Liberty, written by John Roskam and Chris Berg, and released in 2015…

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Clive James’ Chapter In Climate Change: The Facts 2017

This essay first appeared as Chapter 22 of the IPA publication, Climate Change: The Facts 2017. Click here to read this as a PDF. When you tell people once too often that…

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The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages

This is an excerpt from the IPA’s publication The 100 Great Books of Liberty on The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages by Harold Bloom. Canon: In relation…

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New Book – End Public Broadcasting: Why We Should Privatise The ABC And How To Do It

A new book by Professor Sinclair Davidson and Dr Chris Berg ‘Against Public Broadcasting: Why We Should Privatise the ABC and How to Do It’ was launched last night at…

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Australia A World Leader In Decline Of Business Start Ups

A new book by Canada’s Fraser Institute in collaboration with the Institute of Public Affairs has found that Australia has had biggest decline in entrepreneurship among similar countries. Australia’s small business entry…

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Climate Change: The Facts 2017 now on sale

We are pleased to announce that we have entered into an arrangement with our good friends at Connor Court Publishing, which will henceforth produce all print copies of Climate Change:…

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The Culture of Freedom

How can we understand other cultures if we do not have a firm grasp of our own? This is the question both posed and answered by Dr Kevin Donnelly in…

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Bolt: Worth Fighting For

“One bloke who sticks his head up is Andrew Bolt…writing with clarity and conviction.” – Alan Jones, 2GB. Andrew Bolt is Australia’s most prominent and controversial commentator. In this second…

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The Libertarian Alternative

Libertarianism – the philosophy of government that pairs free market economics with social liberalism – presents a vigorous challenge and viable political alternative to the old Left-Right partisan shouting match….

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Magna Carta – The Tax Revolt That Gave Us Liberty

‘Our liberty, democracy, and human rights are all in some way related to what was inscribed on parchment at Runnymede in June 1215’ The Magna Carta is a founding document…

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Liberalism: A Short History by Richard Allsop

The Institute of Public Affairs is excited to present Liberalism: A Short History by IPA Research Fellow Richard Allsop. This is the fourth addition to the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program monograph series. Western Civilisation owes…

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