Inequality Low And Decreasing
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today released a new landmark report, Understanding Inequality in Australia, authored by IPA research fellows Daniel Wild and Andrew...
Why Tax Cuts Without Economic Leadership Won’t Work
Australians haven’t seen any serious tax reform since the 2007 general election. On the first day of that election campaign the then Howard government announced serious tax cuts; quickly...
Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Why Proposed ‘Reforms’ To Consumer Leases Are Just More Red Tape
New research by the Institute of Public Affairs explains why the Turnbull Government’s proposed changes to consumer lease regulation would amount to unnecessary red tape. The rental of household...
A Good Idea From The Turnbull Government
Another day, another idea from the Turnbull government. But at least this time it’s a good one. In an address to the Business Council of Australia last night, Prime Minister Turnbull pressed the...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Everyone Would Have Paid Cost
South Australians can breathe a sigh of relief today after the State Government declared its bank tax ‘dead’. If any state economy needs lower taxes, less red tape and a more competitive free...
Originally appeared in The Advertiser (Adelaide)
Abandonment Of Bank Tax A Win For South Australia
“The bank tax would have crushed investment, job creation, and growth in South Australia. It’s good that it has been abandoned,” said Mr Wild, research fellow with the free market think tank the...
Australia Needs To Lower Its Company Tax Rate
President Donald Trump is planning to lower company tax to 20 per cent, the British Conservatives will be lowering their company tax from 20 per cent to 17 per cent by 2020, the Netherlands...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
ACTU’s ‘Living Wage’ Will Push Up Business Costs And Boost Joblessness
The “living wage” proposed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions would increase poverty and make the poorest in our society worse off. The ACTU is calling for the replacement of the existing...
Originally appeared in The Australian
Barriers To Prosperity: Red Tape And The Regulatory State In Australia
Australia has experienced 26 years of unbroken economic growth. However, this aggregate figure masks stagnant wages growth and a deterioration in the living standards of many in the Australian...
IPA Report: Red Tape Reaches Crisis Point In Australia
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today released a new landmark report, Barriers to Prosperity: Red Tape and the Regulatory State in Australia, authored by IPA research...
Reigniting Australia’s Entrepreneurial Flame: Finding The Missing 275,000 Businesses
The Institute of Public Affairs has tracked the state of entrepreneurship in Australia since 2014. This research was developed by Dom Talimanidis, the IPA’s former Ian Mence Fellow for...
Reigniting Australia’s Entrepreneurial Flame
Australian entrepreneurship is in a state of stagnation, largely due to red tape, which is threatening our prosperity, according to a new Institute of Public Affairs report Reigniting Australia’s...
ACTU Right On The Problem; Wrong On The Solution
“The ACTU is right to say that the rising cost of living needs urgent policy attention. But the right way to reduce the cost of living is to cut red tape to increase competition in the energy...
Australia’s Declining Economic Competitiveness
The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report ranks the competitiveness of 134 countries. Competitiveness is measured using 114 indicators such as macroeconomic health, the...
Bank Regulation: Liberals Try To Prove They Hate Banks Even More Than Labor
“Since when did a conservative government become more socialist than the ALP? What does a conservative government stand for if it wants to regulate the employment conditions of leaders in...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Australia’s Descent Into Economic Mediocrity
Countries become mediocre the same way Mike, a character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises went broke. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike...
Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
The Problem With Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler’s Nudgonomics
Economists have spent the last 240 years – ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations – trying to understand how decentralised economies work. In that time they have established that...
Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Default on Debt Conversation
The debt debate is over with the political class, writes Professor Sinclair Davidson. Recently on The Bolt Report Michael Kroger—former IPA director and now Victorian Liberal Party president—made...