Research Note

Five Reasons the Digital Duty of Care will enable government censorship of the internet

Key Findings The federal government’s proposed Digital Duty of Care is conceptually...

Analysis of regional migration flows 2023-2025

Over the most recent three full financial years, net overseas migration to...

Institute of Public Affairs Analysis of the Safeguard Mechanism Review

Key Findings: Annual Carbon Credit Cost of Safeguard Mechanism under proposed 2035...

The Great Covid Debt Refinancing Cliff

Red tape army: 2026-27 budget update

Australia’s not-so-skilled Skilled Migration Program

Key findings: Chart 1: Skilled migrants a minority of all permanent migrant...

Five policies to revive Australia’s sovereign capability

The 2026 Iran war has revealed the costs of Australia being a...

State Economic Scorecard 2026

This research report is the third annual Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)...

Small business sector in crisis

Figure 1: Cumulative change in the number of small businesses (one to...

The CPI Myth: How official inflation statistics ignore house prices and hide a collapse in real wages

Key Findings Introduction Since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, Australia’s economic...

Big government getting bigger as private sector stagnates

Since the year 2000, the public sector has steadily been replacing the...

Updated Institute of Public Affairs Analysis of the Safeguard Mechanism

The Safeguard Mechanism is the federal government’s marquee net zero policy implementation,...

Launch-pad failure: How WA’s 2020 climate plan blew up the grid, missed its targets, and cost taxpayers $2 billion

Key findings In November 2020 the government of Western Australia released its...

Energy consumption data reveals Australia still powered by coal, oil, and gas

Key findings Figure 1: Manufacturing sector energy consumption, 2000-01 to 2023-24

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The $290 Billion Tax Burden Australians Would Pay To Meet The Federal Government’s Mid-term Emissions Target

One way to gauge the cost of the government’s policy to reduce...

China emits more in 12 days than Australia does in one year

New analysis released today by the Institute of Public Affairs on global...