IPA Welcomes National Cabinet Move To Cut Green Tape
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has congratulated the National Cabinet for agreeing to a single touch approvals process under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity...
Blue-Collar Jobs Are Worthy Too
Labor senator Raff Ciccone’s statement at the weekend that “there is dignity in all work” is something mainstream Australians have always understood, and at last the political class appears to...
Originally appeared in The Australian
EPBC Act Review: Jobs Win Over Litigious Green Activists
“The recommendations of the interim report of the Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) puts mainstream Australians ahead of inner-city...
How Coronavirus Is Killing Small Business – And Threatening Our Values
The heart of the Australian way of life is under threat with small businesses fighting for survival as lockdown restrictions continue. The crisis has hastened the ongoing decline of small business...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
‘Eliminating’ The Virus Is Suppressing Truth
Recent calls for an ‘elimination strategy’ to defeat the coronavirus pandemic are misguided, and may not even work. Why? Because pursuing elimination would mean longer and harder lockdowns. That...
Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
11.7% The Real Unemployment Rate: IPA
Although the official unemployment rate is 7.4%, analysis by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs estimates that the real unemployment rate, including those who have on net left...
We Need To Do Reform, Not Talk It
With the economy in recession, Prime Minister Scott Morrison should spend less time trying to be popular and attempting to be everyone’s friend and more time advocating for the policies that...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
The Truth About the Accord
Journalists, economists, international observers, even businessmen have all paid homage to the Accord between the Hawke Government and the unions, judging it to be an economic saviour. But what is...
Red Tape Holds Back Growth
The WA state government is leading the way for a post-lockdown recovery based on slashing business-crushing red tape to support small businesses. Premier McGowan’s moves to make it easier for...
Originally appeared in The West Australian
The Truth about the Accord
(Originally published in the IPA Review, December-February 1988/89. To access footnotes see also scanned copy of article, here.) Journalists, economists, international observers, even businessmen...
Making the Case for Private Enterprise
Australia will live or die by the success of private enterprise. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 75 per cent of all jobs in Australia are created in the private sector, with the...
Exposed: The True Scope Of Lockdown Unemployment
The official unemployment rate released by the ABS hides the true impact of the lockdown measures on the economy and employment. In addition to the 823 thousand unemployed, there are 1.26 million...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Voice Of Small Business Is Silent On The COVID-19 Commission
Senator Michaelia Cash is the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business in the Morrison government. It’s one thing for a minister to have such a title. It’s another thing...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
When Everything Is Flattened
This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by Research Fellow at the IPA, Andrew Bushnell. Awareness is growing that the coronavirus disease might cause two...
Poll: Unemployment The Focus Of Australians
A new nationally representative poll of 1,012 Australians commissioned by free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, with data collected by Dynata between 24-26 April, 2020, asked...
Western Lockdowns Are Killing People In The Developing World
There are a million reasons why the economy vs lives meme in relation to relaxing COVID-19 restrictions is a false dichotomy. Here’s another: Western lockdowns are killing people in the developing...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Coronavirus Pain Must Be Shared Around
The economic and social burden of the government-imposed sanctions to manage the health crisis must be shared equally with the public sector, which so far has remained shielded from the fallout...
Originally appeared in The Australian
Cut Red Tape To Save Jobs
“Regulations that stop Australians keeping their job and their businesses open must be scrapped,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research with the free market think tank the Institute...