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The IPA is committed to the advancement of free market ideas. Free markets encourage innovation, wealth and the allieviation of poverty. Here you will find the IPA's work on free market economics, the role of govenrment in an economy, and how to lift people out of poverty.

Red Tape

Clause For Concern

Darcy Allen Started 1 October 2018 Finance and economics, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

Counting restrictive clauses in legislation is a powerful tool to reduce red tape, argues Darcy Allen. It is time for a new approach to red tape reduction. Governments seeking to systematically...

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Hope and Tax Cuts in Waterloo Iowa

Gideon Rozner Started 11 September 2018 Dignity of work, Finance and economics,

What can Australia learn from middle America? Gideon Rozner heads deep into Iowa to find out (This article first appeared in the August 2018 edition of the IPA Review. PDF of article here.) Even...

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Banking on Competition (by John Dahlsen).

John Dahlsen Started 27 August 2018 Finance and economics, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

Overregulation and red tape in banking has destroyed competition to the detriment of consumers, argues former ANZ Director, John Dahlsen. [This article first appeared in the IPA Review of August...

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You Think The Coalition Is Bad? Look At Labor’s Policies

Sinclair Davidson 22 August 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Politics in a stable democracy should be boring, even relaxed and comfortable. Yet since the fall of the Howard government in 2007 Australian politics has been exciting– almost a blood sport. The...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review

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Peter Dutton Will Not Solve The Existential Crisis Of The Liberal Party

John Roskam 22 August 2018 Finance and economics, Ideas and liberty,

Tuesday’s Liberal leadership ballot settles nothing. Malcolm Turnbull’s victory margin of 48 votes to 35 practically guarantees another challenge to the Prime Minister, if not from...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review

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Government Snooping Will Not Stop At The Banks

John Roskam 10 August 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Here’s an idea. In order to improve the confidence of the public in democracy, the federal government should embed ‘Taxpayer Compliance Officers’ in cabinet and the Expenditure...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review

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Industry Super Funding of Union Movement in the Spotlight

Morgan Begg 7 August 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has entered its fifth round of hearings in Melbourne this week, examining the superannuation...

Red Tape

Red Tape Corrodes Democracy

David Kemp Started 1 August 2018 Finance and economics, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

The more government regulates its people, the more it fails them, writes David Kemp. Understanding regulation – its sources and its consequences – lies at the very heart of the debate about the...

Energy and Resources

Boondoggling Australia

Daniel Wild, Gideon Rozner, Evan Mulholland, Matthew Lesh and Bella d'Abrera Started 1 August 2018 Climate change, Energy and resources,

When politicians are tempted by a big vision, fiscal prudence is rarely front of mind. Once there are nine or more digits after the dollar sign, the numbers are so ridiculously large that...

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Sorry Scott, But The GST Fight Isn’t Over

Morgan Begg 19 July 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

It is a safe rule of thumb to assume that whenever a minister or a bureaucrat says “no one will be worse off”, that means everyone will be worse off. For proof of this, consider the so-called GST...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

Development Done Right: The Atlas Foundation’s Anti-Poverty Program

Peter Gregory Started 17 July 2018 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

This article was first published in the December 2017 IPA Review. As Harvard development expert Lant Pritchett says, ‘There are no poor people. There are people living in poor places’. This is...

Submissions

Submission To Inquiry Into Impediments To Business Investment

Daniel Wild 9 July 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

The Institute of Public Affairs welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the Senate Inquiry into Impediments to Business Investment. This submission focusses on the role that public...

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Current Australian Tax Cut Debate A Tale Of Two Populisms

Sinclair Davidson 3 July 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Since 2007-8 – the last time Australia enjoyed a budget surplus and zero net public debt – government spending has increased by 78 per cent. Spending now makes up 25.4 per cent of GDP. By...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review

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A Class Divide That’s Too Wide

John Roskam 29 June 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Sometimes political parties create their own narratives, and sometimes those narratives are created for them. Right at the moment Bill Shorten’s Labor Party is doing a good job at creating...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review

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Half Of Australian Workers Worse Off Under Shorten Company Tax Thought Bubble

Matthew Lesh 28 June 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today released new analysis based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, which finds that almost half of Australian workers would be...

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3.55 Million Workers Will Benefit From Enterprise Tax Plan No.2

Matthew Lesh 26 June 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

The Coalition’s proposed Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan No. 2) will reduce corporate taxation from 30% to 25% over 2019-2027 for all businesses.1 This builds on Treasury Laws...

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Tax Cuts? What Tax Cuts?

Daniel Wild 22 June 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

The government has pulled a switfy. They’ve got everyone thinking they are going to cut taxes. They aren’t. Taxes are going up under the government’s income tax plan which passed the Senate...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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Where Have All Our Entrepreneurs Gone?

Matthew Lesh 21 June 2018 Finance and economics, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

Australia is has experienced a gigantic fall in entrepreneurship. Between 2003-05 and 2012-14, small business start-ups — as a percentage of all small businesses — declined by 40 per cent. This...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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