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HomeRESEARCH AREASEnvironment and Agriculture

Environment and Agriculture

Support for the environment needs to strike the right balance between genuine conservation without hampering productive economic activity.
Red Tape
Toxic Greens

Toxic Greens

Darcy Allen and Daniel Wild Started 23 November 2016 Environment and agriculture, Red tape,

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...

Research Papers
How Activists Use Red Tape To Stop Development And Jobs

How Activists Use Red Tape To Stop Development And Jobs

Daniel Wild 1 October 2016 Environment and agriculture, Publications,

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...

Opinion
Annastacia Palaszczuk And The Latest City-Country Divide

Annastacia Palaszczuk And The Latest City-Country Divide

Evan Mulholland 19 August 2016 Environment and agriculture, Finance and economics,

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...

Submission To The Productivity Commission Draft Report Of The Regulation Of Agriculture

Darcy Allen, Chris Berg, Mikayla Novak and Daniel Wild 19 August 2016 Environment and agriculture, Publications,

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...

Opinion
As A Rule, Bureaucracy Is Smothering Agriculture

As A Rule, Bureaucracy Is Smothering Agriculture

Daniel Wild 10 August 2016 Environment and agriculture, Opinion,

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...

Opinion
Local Farmers, Not Distant Regulators, Are Best Placed To Protect Our Environment

Local Farmers, Not Distant Regulators, Are Best Placed To Protect Our Environment

Daniel Wild 2 August 2016 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

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...

Cut Green And Red Tape To Drive More Growth In Farming Sector

Darcy Allen 31 July 2016 Environment and agriculture, Opinion,

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...

Environment and Agriculture
The Black Swan of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

The Black Swan of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

Jennifer Marohasy Started 1 April 2016 Environment and agriculture,

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...

Climate Change
The Judgement of Paris

The Judgement of Paris

Khalil Hegarty Started 1 April 2016 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

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...

So Now You Have Bought An Emissions Trading Scheme

So Now You Have Bought An Emissions Trading Scheme

John Roskam 5 February 2016 Energy and resources, Environment and agriculture,

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...

Environment and Agriculture
The Future Of Wheat

The Future Of Wheat

Andrew Lake Started 4 November 2014 Environment and agriculture,

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...

Energy and Resources
The Repeal Of The Carbon Tax

The Repeal Of The Carbon Tax

Chris Berg Started 16 July 2014 Energy and resources, Environment and agriculture,

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...

Corporatism Masquerading As Environmentalism

Aaron Lane Started 10 May 2014 Climate change, Energy and resources,

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...

Finance and Economics
Economic Vandalism on the Coast

Economic Vandalism on the Coast

Aaron Lane Started 6 May 2014 Environment and agriculture, Finance and economics,

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...

Energy and Resources
The Battle Over Cheap Energy in the Third World

The Battle Over Cheap Energy in the Third World

Brendan Pearson Started 6 May 2014 Climate change, Energy and resources,

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...

Environment and Agriculture
Corporatism Masquerading as Environmentalism

Corporatism Masquerading as Environmentalism

Aaron Lane Started 6 May 2014 Environment and agriculture, Finance and economics,

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...

Environment and Agriculture
The Heavy Cost Of Renewable Energy Requirements

The Heavy Cost Of Renewable Energy Requirements

Alan Moran Started 24 January 2014 Energy and resources, Environment and agriculture,

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...

Red Tape
The Monet Dilemma

The Monet Dilemma

John Shipp Started 5 December 2012 Environment and agriculture, Red tape,

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...

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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%...

The Guardian’s New War On Free Speech
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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