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Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism Reforms Are Gambling Australia’s Energy Future In The Pursuit Of Fringe Green Policy

The energy policy deal struck by the Greens and Labor is purposefully handicapping our ability to trade while there’s a massive gap in the global gas market. The deal struck…

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Parliamentary Research Brief – How Sensible Criminal Justice Reform Would Help Solve Over-incarceration And Worker Shortages

Our latest research brief discusses Australia’s alarming incarceration rate and nationwide worker shortages. IPA research has found that over-incarceration and worker shortages could be addressed by adopting sensible criminal justice…

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Federal Government Makes Bad Policy Worse With Safeguard Mechanism Concessions

“The Federal Government’s deal with the Greens to pass its safeguard mechanism reform through parliament will only put further upward pressure on energy prices, risk gas supplies, and destroy jobs…

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New Zealand Shows Us How The Voice Will Work

There were two important announcements on Thursday March 16, concerning the question that will be asked at the Voice to Parliament referendum later this year. They serve as a glaring…

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Re-imaging Tasmania’s Temperature History, Part 1

My good friend Patrick Lloyd, enamoured with the new Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT, sent me maximum temperatures for Tasmania as individual annual averages of all the daily values for all 155…

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Misleading The Young

The national curriculum substitutes raw emotion for hard learning Occasionally our political representatives will say things which stand the test of time, but more than often, they do not. One…

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Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: ‘Crackers’ to Remove Moira Deeming from Liberal Party

See below for show notes: This week former prime minister and Distinguished Fellow of the IPA Tony Abbott argues that surely it must be possible for someone to stand up…

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NSW Election is Another Contest About Nothing

Saturday’s contest in NSW is further proof the traditional left/right political divide is now irrelevant as politicians form part of a managerial elite whose task it is to eliminate political…

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Right To Faith-Based Education Sacrificed At The Altar Of Progressivism

If, like most of us, you are under the impression that parents have a “right” to see their children educated within their own values system, you are mistaken. In practice…

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Voice Wording Confirms Mainstream Australia’s Fears Of A New Age Of Racial Division

“The proposed wording of the question to be put to the upcoming referendum confirms that the Voice is not a modest request, as the Prime Minister asserts, but a dangerous…

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One Voice: Racial Equality In The Australian Constitution

The Institute of Public Affairs was founded in 1943 as a non-profit educational research organisation with the objectives: to further the individual, social, political, and economic freedom of the Australian…

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The 1.5 C Temperature Fiction, Already Exceeded

It is all over the news, another climate change report from the IPCC – the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Of course, it tells us that the end…

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