Toxic Greens
This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Research Fellows at the IPA, Darcy Allen and Daniel Wild. Earlier this year in central Victoria, an...
This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Research Fellows at the IPA, Darcy Allen and Daniel Wild. Earlier this year in central Victoria, an...
Section 487 (s. 487) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act extends special legal privileges to green groups to challenge federal environmental project approvals...
Nothing reveals the clear divide between inner city and regional Queensland than the long, tumultuous history of land clearing. The Palaszczuk government’s now failed changes to native...
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) welcomes this Productivity Commission Draft report (henceforth the ‘Draft’) on the Regulation of Agriculture and encourages the focus on the impact of...
The Productivity Commission’s call to slash red tape across the agricultural sector is exactly what our farmers need. The recently released draft report highlighted the breathtaking array of...
Toobeah farmer John Norman’s nightmare experience with red tape and excessive bureaucracy illustrates an issue many farmers face. It shouldn’t have taken Mr Norman long to prolong a...
The release of the new Productivity Commission draft report into the regulation of agriculture confirms that Tasmanian farmers are shackled by costly and unnecessary red tape. The report covered...
A ‘black swan event’ refers to the unprecedented— something that changes how we previously perceived reality. The Murray-Darling Basin is a place replete with black swans (both figuratively and...
On December 12 2015, headlines stated that the newly concluded United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Paris was a success, and world leaders managed to complete...
What is it? The emissions trading scheme, or ‘Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme’, is a ‘cap and trade’ system. This requires firms to obtain a government ‘permit’ if they emit...
This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by CEO of Pristine Forage Technologies, Andrew Lake. In 2013, Groundcover, the magazine of the Australian government’s Grains...
This article from the July 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by editor and Policy Director at the IPA, Chris Berg. ‘What a complete and catastrophic failure of the political system’, wrote the...
The Abbott government’s ‘Direct Action’ climate change policy is a throw-back to the failed economic ideologies of the past, writes Aaron Lane. If the carbon tax was ‘socialism masquerading as...
This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Aaron Lane. ‘Cabotage’ describes the practice of restricting ‘coastal shipping’ (i.e. the transportation...
This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Chief Executive of the Minerals Council of Australia, Brendan Pearson. The American literary critic Lionel Trilling once sounded a...
This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow with the IPA, Aaron Lane. If the carbon tax was “socialism masquerading as environmentalism”, then the Abbott...
This article from the January 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Director or the Deregulation Unit at the IPA, Dr Alan Moran. The carbon tax was the tombstone of the ALP’s 2013 election policy...
This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the North Australia Project at the IPA, John Shipp. The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell is a well-argued...