What About…Two Giant Batteries?
Adelaide was rated the fifth most liveable city in the world by The Economist this week. I guess they don’t care much about electricity costs: The IPA’s Daniel Wild explained why...
The NYT Should Hire The Chatbots
From Morgan Begg | Thursday, 10 August 2017 Something is driving up the cost of living, and it’s not the private sector: As the reported in The Australian this morning, since 2007-08 prices...
Heading Out This Weekend? You Could Be An Extremist
Check out how increased public funding of education impacts reading outcomes for students: To see the impact Victorian school funding has had on numeracy, grammar and spelling outcomes, click...
The International Crackdown On Lemonade Stands
It’s here! Climate Change: The Facts 2017 will be launched tonight at a sold out event in Sydney. Buy your copy here to read chapters by Clive James, Bjørn Lomborg, Matt Ridley, Ian Plimer...
The Chairman of Very Little Brain
The Eureka Stockade was a revolt over high taxes on independent miners, and the myth that it was all about the union movement needs to be busted. That’s why the IPA made this short...
You Can’t Homogenise This Tax Haul
How is this not the biggest issue in Australian politics? The percentage of young Australians who are unemployed or underemployed is at its highest level since 1978 – higher than the early...
Do You Have A Permit For That Water Bottle?
Two convicts in Australia, just six months after the First Fleet landed, taking a ship’s captain to court for their stolen luggage…and winning. Watch our latest short documentary on...
The Unfair Work Act
This is why employers hesitate to hire new staff. Wrongful termination applications from employees have increased by 126% since the Rudd government established the Fair Work Commission in 2009...
Huffington Post should read the Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is the founding document of individual liberty, the rule of law, and parliamentary democracy – watch the IPA’s Dr Bella d’Abrera explain how it has shaped...
You Can Only Vote If You Agree With Me
Wholesale electricity prices in Australia have doubled over the last two years. Simon Breheny on Sky News Weekend Agenda responded to last Friday’s Finkel Review into Australia’s...
Gillian Triggs Almost Gets It Right
Everyone in Australia was talking about this ($) over the weekend: There are over 1,200 comments at The Australian website alone beneath Clive James’ take down of climate alarmism (Jo Nova...
31,600 Reasons To Skip Class
Last week, Oxfam called for an end to coal subsidies in Australia to reduce poverty. But imagine how much poverty we could eradicate if we stopped subsidising renewables: That graph is from the...