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Opinion

The IPA is a constant presence in the Australian media. IPA staff have been published in every major metropolitan paper. Here is a collection of all op-eds written by IPA staff.
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Australia’s Descent Into Economic Mediocrity

Australia’s Descent Into Economic Mediocrity

John Roskam 12 October 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Countries become mediocre the same way Mike, a character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises went broke. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
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When France Puts You To Shame With IR Reform, You’re In Trouble

When France Puts You To Shame With IR Reform, You’re In Trouble

Gideon Rozner 12 October 2017 Dignity of work, Foreign affairs and trade,

Australia needs politicians like Emmanuel Macron – politicians who are willing to take on powerful vested interests for the sake of reform. Sure, there’s plenty not to like about Macron: the...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
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The Problem With Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler’s Nudgonomics

The Problem With Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler’s Nudgonomics

Chris Berg and Sinclair Davidson 12 October 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Economists have spent the last 240 years – ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations – trying to understand how decentralised economies work. In that time they have established that...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
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Brexit Britain Can Learn From The Extraordinary Success Story Of Its Old Friend And Partner, Australia

Brexit Britain Can Learn From The Extraordinary Success Story Of Its Old Friend And Partner, Australia

Matthew Lesh 7 October 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

Britain is at a political fork in the road. Brexit provides an extraordinary opportunity to chart a new course in trade, regulation and immigration policy. One place Britain can learn from is an...

Originally appeared in BrexitCentral
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Unlearning Civilisation

Unlearning Civilisation

Bella d'Abrera 6 October 2017 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Australia’s oldest and most prestigious institution of higher education, the University of Sydney, has reached an all- time low. In a remarkable act of institutional suicide, the university...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
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Tim’s Tawdry Trick

Tim’s Tawdry Trick

Andrew Bushnell 6 October 2017 Freedom of speech, Ideas and liberty,

As the saying goes, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So naturally, when the Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, decided last week to share his view of...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
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Repeating Turnbull’s Blunder

Repeating Turnbull’s Blunder

Matthew Lesh 5 October 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

Watching the Conservatives fall apart over leadership gives me uncanny déjà vu after Australian politics. In the last eight years, Australia has had four Prime Ministers. So far, Britain has had...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Opinion
Australia’s Universities Are Failing To Protect Free Speech

Australia’s Universities Are Failing To Protect Free Speech

Matthew Lesh 3 October 2017 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

Academic freedom is increasingly under threat on Australian campuses, and widespread speech codes leave universities unprepared to combat the danger. The latest threat comes from a new source...

Originally appeared in ABC News
Opinion
No Safe Space From The Self-Righteous

No Safe Space From The Self-Righteous

John Roskam 28 September 2017 Freedom of speech, Ipa today,

“The personal is political”, a slogan of radical feminism in the 1970s, has now become true. A family dinner would have once been considered a safe space for the personal and the...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Opinion
Why Abolish 18C? Consider This Vexatious Complaint’s Threat To Free Speech

Why Abolish 18C? Consider This Vexatious Complaint’s Threat To Free Speech

Simon Breheny 28 September 2017 Constitution and law, Freedom of speech,

When the legal affairs editor of this paper, Chris Merritt, sent a carefully worded reply on March 9 to an email he had received two days earlier, that should have been the end of a matter...

Originally appeared in The Australian
Opinion
Equal Justice At Risk If Judges Consider Aboriginality In Sentencing

Equal Justice At Risk If Judges Consider Aboriginality In Sentencing

Andrew Bushnell 22 September 2017 Criminal justice, Ipa today,

During the past 10 years, incarceration in Australia has risen 40 per cent. A third of this is the result of more Indigenous Australians being jailed. Indigenous Australians are now jailed at a...

Opinion
Media Reforms A Significant Achievement

Media Reforms A Significant Achievement

Evan Mulholland 21 September 2017 Ipa today, Opinion,

The government’s market liberalisation win on media reform should not be underestimated. Despite the $60 million of taxpayer funds doled out to private media organisations, this is a step in...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
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Beware The Anti-Trump Tyrants

The year recently ended revealed that the authoritarian impulse is never very far from the surface. It may lay dormant for a time but it never goes away. Here in Australia, and indeed around the...

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