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It is vital that Australia's education system exposes all sides of the important political issues to young people, and gives them the skills to participate in the modern world. However, many schools and universities are turning their back on free speech, and are indoctrinating children with political dogma. Here you will find our research on restoring freedom to education.

Western Civilisation

How The West Spread South

Bella d'Abrera Started 19 December 2019 Education and skills, Ideas and liberty,

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the IPA Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, Bella d’Abrera. Australia’s colonists were deeply engaged...

Education and Skills

Principles over Principals

Moira Deeming Started 19 December 2019 Education and skills, Ideas and liberty,

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by Moira Deeming. When I was in year 12 our school hired a trendy new Principal. She wore shapeless artsy clothes, a severe haircut...

Education and Skills

From Realism to Surrealism

David Martin Jones Started 19 December 2019 Education and skills, Ideas and liberty,

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by David Martin Jones. Before this millennium began, the study of international relations (IR) represented a minor field in the...

To Be Released: The Kids Are Not Alright

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PUBLICATIONS

Academia Rooted

Bella d'Abrera 6 December 2019 Education and skills, Ipa today,

The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences continues to be the standard bearer for everything that is desperately wrong with modern academia. In October, the university’s...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

PUBLICATIONS

Weekend Viewing: How The Enlightenment Came to Australia

Bella d'Abrera 7 October 2019 Education and skills, Ipa today,

In nineteenth-century Australia, the early colonists had to decide what sort of institutions they were going to choose, if they going to be a protectionist or free trade set of colonies, if they...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

PUBLICATIONS

Academics Spending Big In Search Of Racism

Bella d'Abrera 3 October 2019 Education and skills, Ipa today,

If you were not already convinced that Australia’s humanities departments have truly lost their way, the latest research project from the faculty of arts and social sciences at the University of...

Originally appeared in The Australian

IPA TODAY

Watering Australia’s Intellectual Deserts

John Roskam 30 September 2019 Climate change, Education and skills,

If what happened at RMIT University in Melbourne last week was a one-off event, it could be laughed at as the behaviour of a single rogue academic. But the pity is that the actions of a senior...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review

PUBLICATIONS

Our Universities Have Caved In To Lazy Groupthink

Bella d'Abrera 20 September 2019 Climate change, Education and skills,

In the lead-up to Friday’s Global Climate Strike, enlightening emails have found their way into staff and student university inboxes. These communications are as illuminating as they are...

Originally appeared in The Australian

PUBLICATIONS

Unis Have Lost Their Way As Homes For Free Speech

Janet Albrechtsen 31 August 2019 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

In 2016, the Collins English Dictionary ranked “snowflake generation” as one of those annoying new phrases for the year. It is time to bury it. It’s a beat-up and, worse, it is an unfair slur on...

Originally appeared in The Australian

Opinion

New Research Confirms Free Speech Crisis At Australia’s Universities

Renee Gorman 31 August 2019 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

New IPA research, conducted as part of the IPA’s Generation Liberty Program, confirms there is a free speech crisis at Australia’s universities. The IPA commissioned a survey of 500 domestic...

Media Releases

Free Speech Crisis At Australia’s Universities Confirmed By New Research

Evan Mulholland 31 August 2019 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

New research released today by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs confirms there is a free speech crisis at Australia’s universities. A survey of 500 domestic Australian...

Parliamentary Research Briefs

The First Rung: The Role Of Low-paid Work In Building Success

Kurt Wallace 21 August 2019 Dignity of work, Education and skills,

The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Australia’s premier free market think tank, is dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic and political freedom. The Parliamentary...

Nanny State

Strange Times: Artful Dodgeball

James Bolt Started 9 August 2019 Education and skills, Nanny state,

This article by James Bolt appeared in the August 2019 IPA Review We live in divided times, but I always thought the one thing that could unite us all was our shared love of dodgeball. It...

PUBLICATIONS

How Chinese Investment Is Challenging Our Academic Freedom

Bella d'Abrera 9 August 2019 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

Recent scenes of chaos at the University of Queensland as pro- and anti-Hong Kong freedom demonstrators squared off on campus, and reports that the Chinese-based families of anti-communist...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

PUBLICATIONS

Campus Freedom Of Speech Gagged By Chinese Money

Matthew Lesh 2 August 2019 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

Australian universities have been slow to act against worrying violence and intimidation by pro-Chinese Communist Party students on campus. Unwilling to upset their CCP-dependent business...

Originally appeared in The Australian

PUBLICATIONS

Costly Clamps On Free Speech

Matthew Lesh 3 July 2019 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

Australian university leaders and their supporters have asserted repeatedly that there is no problem with free speech on campuses. The evidence hardly supports this. If there were no problem...

PUBLICATIONS

Wentworth Must Stand

Renee Gorman 28 June 2019 Education and skills, Ipa today,

At the University of Sydney we can see what happens when students are no longer taught our history. When the halls of higher learning focus more on identity politics and postmodernist ideas of...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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