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HomeRESEARCH AREASEducation and Skills

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.
Parliamentary Research Briefs
The First Rung: The Role Of Low-paid Work In Building Success

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

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

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

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

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

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
PUBLICATIONS
Union’s War On The West

Union’s War On The West

Bella d'Abrera 2 May 2019 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

How threatening to some academics is the idea of a program in Western civilisation being taught on their campuses? Enough that it’s worth going to court over. That’s right: the National Tertiary...

Originally appeared in Daily Telegraph
IPA TODAY
Shut Up, You White Males

Shut Up, You White Males

Renee Gorman 30 April 2019 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

Earlier this week news broke of a controversial workshop entitled “How privilege manifests in tutorials” run at the University of Melbourne by the Student Union’s Environment ­Collective. Those...

Originally appeared in Daily Telegraph
PUBLICATIONS
Can’t Howl This Down: More Must Be Done To Protect Free Speech

Can’t Howl This Down: More Must Be Done To Protect Free Speech

Matthew Lesh 24 April 2019 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

Former chief justice Robert French’s review into university freedom of speech is a powerful vindication of those who have raised concerns about free speech protection on Australia’s campuses...

Originally appeared in The Australian
PUBLICATIONS
IPA Welcomes Free Speech Review, Time For Universities To Act

IPA Welcomes Free Speech Review, Time For Universities To Act

Matthew Lesh 9 April 2019 Education and skills, Ipa today,

The free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the Government’s independent review into university freedom of speech undertaken by the Hon Mr Robert French AC, former...

PUBLICATIONS
Trust An Academic To Be So Foolish

Trust An Academic To Be So Foolish

Bella d'Abrera 25 March 2019 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Last month the University of Sydney sacked a lecturer in politics who showed his class a swastika superimposed over the flag of ­Israel. Last week another Univer­sity of...

Originally appeared in The Australian
IPA TODAY
Radical Feminism Has No Place In Psychology

Radical Feminism Has No Place In Psychology

Renee Gorman 14 February 2019 Education and skills, Ideas and liberty,

Australian boys and men seeking help for mental illness may soon find themselves being lectured about toxic masculinity and white privilege. The Australian Psychological Society (APS), Australia’s...

Originally appeared in Daily Telegraph
PUBLICATIONS
Three Years In An Aussie Re-Education Camp

Three Years In An Aussie Re-Education Camp

Bella d'Abrera 9 February 2019 Education and skills, Ipa today,

The next cohort of prospective undergraduates who plan on studying Australia’s history at university in 2019 should scrutinise the subject descriptions on offer with considerable care. If they are...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
PUBLICATIONS
Children Lose Out If Academics Shade Literature With Gender Politics

Children Lose Out If Academics Shade Literature With Gender Politics

Bella d'Abrera 8 February 2019 Education and skills, Ipa today,

The news that academics from Queensland University of Technology are demanding that the selection of texts recommended by the national curriculum should “better reflect the sexual diversity of the...

Originally appeared in The Australian
PUBLICATIONS
Australia Day Discord Devised By Academe

Australia Day Discord Devised By Academe

Bella d'Abrera 21 January 2019 Education and skills, Ipa today,

To understand the self-loathing narrative pushed on us by some Australians about the date of our national day, you need only examine the way Australia’s history is being taught. There is a direct...

Originally appeared in The Australian
IPA TV
Australian History’s Last Stand

Australian History’s Last Stand

Bella d'Abrera 14 January 2019 Education and skills, Ipa today,

In the latest IPA Explainer, the IPA’s Dr Bella d’Abrera discusses the findings of the latest IPA report ‘Australian History’s Last Stand: An Audit of Australian History...

PUBLICATIONS
Universities Want To Have Their Cake – And Censor It

Universities Want To Have Their Cake – And Censor It

Matthew Lesh 18 December 2018 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

Universities have entered a bargain with the devil. Universities accept significant state direction in exchange for privileges and funding. Universities are a regulated oligopoly. They have a...

Research Papers
Free Speech on Campus Audit 2018

Free Speech on Campus Audit 2018

Matthew Lesh 10 December 2018 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)’s Free Speech on Campus Audit 2018 is the third systematic analysis of over 190 policies and actions at Australia’s 42 universities. The Audit...

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