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Education and Skills

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.
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Learning From Lockdown

Learning From Lockdown

Kirsty O'Sullivan 28 April 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Like all parents of school-aged children in my state, I recently received an email from the Education Department letting me know that term two will be entirely from home. I have often fancied the...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
PUBLICATIONS
Not A Very Class Act

Not A Very Class Act

Bella d'Abrera 24 April 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Despite the health advice consistently provided by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee which says that teachers can and should go back to school, teachers’ unions across the...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
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Australia’s Other Plague: Incestuous ‘Intellectuals’

Australia’s Other Plague: Incestuous ‘Intellectuals’

Daniel Wild 2 April 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Few images better capture the out of touch and incompetent nature of Australia’s self-described elites as three university academics playing word games to describe the economy as “hibernating”...

Originally appeared in Quadrant Online
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University O-Week Censors Excel Themselves

University O-Week Censors Excel Themselves

Janet Albrechtsen 14 March 2020 Climate change, Education and skills,

“Free speech crisis? What crisis?” Uttered in freaky unison, this frequen­t denial from university vice-chancellors has allowed them to resume normal programming. That consists of VCs putting...

Originally appeared in The Australian
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Don’t Bail Out Bloated Unis

Don’t Bail Out Bloated Unis

John Roskam 6 March 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Australian universities should not get a cent of any federal government bailout program or stimulus package in the wake of the coronavirus. Over the past decade universities have privatised the...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
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Academic Agitators Rely On The Public Purse

Academic Agitators Rely On The Public Purse

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

On Sunday the ABC published an article stating that masculinity is the biggest obstacle to climate ­action. The highly offensive piece, which was steeped in misandry and titled “Is fragile...

Originally appeared in The Australian
Western Civilisation
How The West Spread South

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

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

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...

Climate Change
The Kids Are Not Alright

The Kids Are Not Alright

Junjie Ling and Robert Lyndon Started 19 December 2019 Climate change, Education and skills,

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by psychiatry registrar Dr Junjie Ling and retired psychiatrist and IPA member Dr Robert Lyndon. In September 2019, a record 7.6...

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Academia Rooted

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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