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HomeRESEARCH AREASForeign Affairs and Trade

Foreign Affairs and Trade

What should Australia's role in the world be? Here you will find the IPA's work on foreign policy and trade, and how Australia can use the international free market to improve the lives of its citizens and people around the world.

To Be Released: Ideals Carved In Stone

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To Be Released: Let There Be (Gas)Light

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PUBLICATIONS
End The Paranoia Of Hermit Country

End The Paranoia Of Hermit Country

Matthew Lesh 5 January 2021 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

Australia has some of the harshest border restrictions on the planet: stringent arrival caps, two-week hotel quarantine and prevention of citizens leaving the country without special exemptions...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
Climate Change
Lasting Legacy

Lasting Legacy

IPA Review Started 20 December 2020 Climate change, Foreign affairs and trade,

This article from the Summer 2020 edition of the IPA Review was written by IPA staff. America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s...

PUBLICATIONS
Poll – Victorians Oppose Belt & Road Scheme

Poll – Victorians Oppose Belt & Road Scheme

Daniel Wild 2 September 2020 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

A new poll of 1,040 Victorians commissioned by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs shows a majority of Victorians want the Andrews Government to withdraw from the Belt and Road...

Ideas and Liberty
Prosperity is the Best Protection

Prosperity is the Best Protection

Wolfgang Kasper Started 13 August 2020 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

This article from the Winter 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by UNSW Professor Emeritus of Economics, Wolfgang Kasper. The unprecedented Corona slump of 2020 confronts Australians with...

Western Civilisation
Freedom’s Narrow Corridor

Freedom’s Narrow Corridor

Paul Monk Started 13 August 2020 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

This article from the Winter 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by author and former intelligence analyst, Paul Monk. The national security law imposed by the Chinese Communist Party on...

Foreign Affairs and Trade
Force for Freedom

Force for Freedom

Richard Allsop Started 22 May 2020 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Senior Fellow Richard Allsop.  Charles Moore’s magisterial authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher reaches new...

Foreign Affairs and Trade
Not Quite Right

Not Quite Right

Matthew Lesh Started 15 May 2020 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Adjunct Fellow, Matthew Lesh.  A friend warned me I wasn’t going to like what’s up there: “It’s two bad words.” The...

PUBLICATIONS
University Of Queensland Takes Action Against Its Own To Curry Favour With China

University Of Queensland Takes Action Against Its Own To Curry Favour With China

Bella d'Abrera 12 May 2020 Education and skills, Foreign affairs and trade,

We should all care about the case of 20-year-old Drew Pavlou, not only because of the injustice of a university intimidating its own student but also because it is symptomatic of the crisis of...

Originally appeared in The Australian
PUBLICATIONS
Economic Zone Can Be Boost For North

Economic Zone Can Be Boost For North

Daniel Wild 31 January 2020 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

Making Northern Australia a special economic zone with low taxes and less red tape, and devolving governance away from Canberra to regional hubs such the Kimberly, will deliver an economic boom...

Originally appeared in The West Australian
PUBLICATIONS
Movement Of The People

Movement Of The People

Patrick Hannaford 19 December 2019 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

Boris Johnson’s landslide election victory provides Australia with a unique opportunity to strengthen ties with our oldest and one of our closest allies. To take full advantage of this once in a...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
Foreign Affairs and Trade
Los Ignorantes

Los Ignorantes

IPA Review Started 17 October 2019 Foreign affairs and trade, Government services,

Diego Ilan Méndez is an actuary employed as an economic risk analyst based in the Buenos Aires office of an international banking group. He has an actuary in economics degree from Universidad de...

Finance and Economics
Brexit is Our Battle Too

Brexit is Our Battle Too

Scott Hargreaves Started 17 October 2019 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

This Editorial from the Spring 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by IPA Executive General Manager and  Editor of the IPA Review, Scott Hargreaves Boris Johnson is fighting not just for a United...

Foreign Affairs and Trade
Nobody Wins in Global Trade War

Nobody Wins in Global Trade War

Matthew Lesh Started 1 August 2018 Foreign affairs and trade,

Australia has much to lose in the looming global trade war, writes Matthew Lesh. Protectionist rhetoric by United States President Donald Trump threatens a new global trade war on a scale not seen...

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

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...

The Politics of Curtin’s War

The Politics of Curtin’s War

Richard Allsop Started 11 May 2018 Book reviews, Foreign affairs and trade,

A new book by John Edwards explores the political life and relationships of Australia’s 14th Prime Minister, John Curtin  (John Curtin’s War, Volume 1: The Coming of War in the Pacific...

PUBLICATIONS
UK Is Right To Take A Stand Against Putin’s Aggression

UK Is Right To Take A Stand Against Putin’s Aggression

Georgina Downer 20 March 2018 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

Britain’s reaction to Russia’s aggression on its soil is tough and right. This is the type of response we should expect from a post-Brexit Britain, which is not bound by the lowest...

Originally appeared in The Herald Sun
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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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