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Energy and Resources

Access to reliable and affordable energy for the Australian public should be the goal of any energy policy. Here you will find the IPA's work on energy and privatisation.

To Be Released: It’s Only Natural

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Western Civilisation
Artefacts and Fiction

Artefacts and Fiction

Bella d'Abrera Started 21 October 2020 Education and skills, Energy and resources,

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by Director of the IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, Bella d’Abrera. This August, the British Museum...

Climate Change
The Best Kind of Environment

The Best Kind of Environment

Matthew Lesh Started 21 October 2020 Climate change, Energy and resources,

This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Adjunct Fellow, Matthew Lesh. Environmental catchcries of the early 21st century are apocalyptic: “Billions of people...

Climate Change
Power for the People

Power for the People

Tristan Prasser Started 6 October 2020 Book reviews, Climate change,

This article from the Winter 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Research Fellow, Tristan Prasser. Filmmaking activist Michael Moore’s most recent documentary, Planet of the Humans...

PUBLICATIONS
You Don’t Need To Like Clive Palmer To Dislike His Arbitrary Treatment

You Don’t Need To Like Clive Palmer To Dislike His Arbitrary Treatment

Morgan Begg 27 August 2020 Constitution and law, Energy and resources,

The Western Australian government’s draconian legislation passed this month to extinguish the legal rights of Clive Palmer and his flagship company, Minerology, is the kind of thing that would not...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
PUBLICATIONS
Blue-Collar Jobs Are Worthy Too

Blue-Collar Jobs Are Worthy Too

Daniel Wild 21 July 2020 Dignity of work, Energy and resources,

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
PUBLICATIONS
EPBC Act Review: Jobs Win Over Litigious Green Activists

EPBC Act Review: Jobs Win Over Litigious Green Activists

Daniel Wild 20 July 2020 Dignity of work, Energy and resources,

“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...

IPA TV
Cut Environmental Red Tape For Australia’s Jobs

Cut Environmental Red Tape For Australia’s Jobs

Kurt Wallace 8 April 2020 Climate change, Energy and resources,

  Kurt Wallace explains how environmental activists are exploiting a special legal privilege which has put over $65 billion of investment and thousands of Australian jobs at risk. Read the...

PUBLICATIONS
A Simple Stimulus Step That Won’t Cost A Cent: Stop Green Lawfare

A Simple Stimulus Step That Won’t Cost A Cent: Stop Green Lawfare

Kurt Wallace 20 March 2020 Climate change, Energy and resources,

Over $65 billion of investment, mostly in regional Australia, has been put at risk by a small group of environmental and inner-city activists who have exploited a special legal provision to engage...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
PUBLICATIONS
Some Stimulating Ideas

Some Stimulating Ideas

Cian Hussey 12 March 2020 Energy and resources, Government services,

Rather than engaging in a shortsighted and reckless cash splash, the federal government should seize the opportunity created by the economic fallout from the coronavirus to cut red tape, reduce...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
PUBLICATIONS
Climate Wars Are The Aussie Brexit

Climate Wars Are The Aussie Brexit

John Roskam 7 February 2020 Climate change, Energy and resources,

Climate change is to Australia what Brexit is to Britain. That’s because, just like on Brexit, perspectives on climate policy are as much about one’s views on the future of the economy and society...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
PUBLICATIONS
Time To Break The Shackles

Time To Break The Shackles

Kurt Wallace 27 December 2019 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

Western Australia has always been a fast-moving, entrepreneurial, and successful state. Blessed with an abundance of natural resources, a thriving agricultural sector, and people with go-ahead...

Originally appeared in The West Australian
PUBLICATIONS
Australia Must Withdraw From Paris Agreement

Australia Must Withdraw From Paris Agreement

Daniel Wild 8 November 2019 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

President Trump is keeping a promise he made during the 2016 election campaign to get the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Australia must do the same. In a speech to the Lowy...

Ideas and Liberty
New Clear Future

New Clear Future

IPA Review Started 21 October 2019 Energy and resources, Environment and agriculture,

Dayne Eckermann is General Manager at Bright New World, which is based in Adelaide, Australia. Nuclear advocates have long felt that once people start to look again at nuclear technology, confront...

IPA TODAY
Government Intervention Responsible For Energy Price Hikes

Government Intervention Responsible For Energy Price Hikes

Kurt Wallace 16 August 2019 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

A Greens-led bill to prohibit government funding of coal-fired power in Australia has been slammed as a reckless ideological tactic, which would cause significant and irreparable economic damage...

IPA TODAY
Greens Only Want To Make Power Less Affordable

Greens Only Want To Make Power Less Affordable

Kurt Wallace 16 August 2019 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

A Greens-backed bill prohibiting government funding of coal-fired power in Australia would further worsen Australia’s electricity crisis. Government intervention in the energy market has seen...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
IPA TODAY
Arvi Parbo on Politics and the Economy

Arvi Parbo on Politics and the Economy

IPA Review 2 May 2019 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

On the occasion of the passing of Sir Arvi Parbo AC (10 February 1926 – 1 May 2019), giant of the Australian business community and in particular its mining sector, we  pay tribute to Sir Arvi ...

PUBLICATIONS
Eighty-Nine Billion New Reasons To Quit The Paris Agreement

Eighty-Nine Billion New Reasons To Quit The Paris Agreement

Daniel Wild 20 March 2019 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

Momentum continues to build for Australia to exit the Paris Climate Agreement. New economic modelling prepared by Managing Director of BAEconomics and former executive director of the Australian...

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Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott Joins The IPA’s Fight For Australian Values
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott Joins The IPA’s Fight For Australian Values

The Institute of Public Affairs has today announced that the 28th Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Tony Abbott will join the IPA as a Distinguished Fellow. Mr Abbott will be working with the...

The Fair Go – Going, Gone: The Decline Of The Australian Way Of Life, 2000 to 2020
The Fair Go – Going, Gone: The Decline Of The Australian Way Of Life, 2000 to 2020

Key findings : The quality of the Australian way of life is collapsing.  The Australian Way of Life Scoreboard, which measures the quality of the Australian way of life, has declined by 28.5%...

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The Guardian’s New War On Free Speech

On the 21st and 22nd of January the Institute of Public Affairs received correspondence about a planned register of think-tanks in Australia by The Guardian Australia “to improve Australian...

Australia Versus Google
Australia Versus Google

The out-going Trump administration finally woke up to a nasty little rort that the Australian government was planning on running against United States tech giants operating in Australia. On...

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