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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.
PUBLICATIONS
The Choice Between Hard Or Soft Brexit

The Choice Between Hard Or Soft Brexit

Georgina Downer 8 March 2018 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

It’s been almost a year since the United Kingdom formally notified the European Union of its intention to leave the EU. Since then, the UK and EU have been engaged in intense negotiations about...

Originally appeared in Lowy Interpreter
PUBLICATIONS
Paths To Democracy

Paths To Democracy

Georgina Downer Started 22 December 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the...

PUBLICATIONS
Doing Development Differently

Doing Development Differently

Peter Gregory Started 22 November 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

As Harvard development expert Lant Pritchett says, ‘There are no poor people. There are people living in poor places’. This is demonstrated by the fact that when poor people relocate to countries...

Opinion
West Will Have Sympathy For Catalan Anger

West Will Have Sympathy For Catalan Anger

Georgina Downer 8 November 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

Catalonia. For most Australians, the name of its capital, Barcelona, will resonate more. The city conjures up images of the grand boulevard Las Ramblas, the architecture of Antoni Gaudí...

Originally appeared in The Herald Sun
Opinion
Australia Must Push Donald Trump On Stronger Indo-Pacific

Australia Must Push Donald Trump On Stronger Indo-Pacific

Andrew Shearer 2 November 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

Later this week President Donald Trump embarks on a 12-day tour of Asia – the longest trip to the region by a US president for 25 years, taking in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Opinion
When France Puts You To Shame With IR Reform, You’re In Trouble

When France Puts You To Shame With IR Reform, You’re In Trouble

Gideon Rozner 12 October 2017 Dignity of work, Foreign affairs and trade,

Australia needs politicians like Emmanuel Macron – politicians who are willing to take on powerful vested interests for the sake of reform. Sure, there’s plenty not to like about Macron: the...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Opinion
Brexit Britain Can Learn From The Extraordinary Success Story Of Its Old Friend And Partner, Australia

Brexit Britain Can Learn From The Extraordinary Success Story Of Its Old Friend And Partner, Australia

Matthew Lesh 7 October 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

Britain is at a political fork in the road. Brexit provides an extraordinary opportunity to chart a new course in trade, regulation and immigration policy. One place Britain can learn from is an...

Originally appeared in BrexitCentral
Opinion
Repeating Turnbull’s Blunder

Repeating Turnbull’s Blunder

Matthew Lesh 5 October 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

Watching the Conservatives fall apart over leadership gives me uncanny déjà vu after Australian politics. In the last eight years, Australia has had four Prime Ministers. So far, Britain has had...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Opinion
Australia Can’t Be Silent Amid The Misery Of Venezuela

Australia Can’t Be Silent Amid The Misery Of Venezuela

Matthew Lesh 29 August 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

Venezuela is a failing socialist state. The economy is 40 per cent smaller than a few years ago. Nine in 10 households are unable to ­afford enough food. Infant mortality has risen 30 per cent...

Originally appeared in The Australian
Opinion
Resilient Alliance With Us Underwrites Our Strength

Resilient Alliance With Us Underwrites Our Strength

Andrew Shearer 15 August 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

For all the furore it generated, the prickly phone call between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull was a blip in Australia’s alliance relations with the US. In the mid-1950s Canberra and Washington...

Originally appeared in The Australian
Opinion
Timor’s Prosperity Lies In Its Best Assets: Its Beaches And People

Timor’s Prosperity Lies In Its Best Assets: Its Beaches And People

Georgina Downer 11 August 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

East Timor holds a special place in the Australian psyche. It is our newest neighbour, and we played a critical role in supporting its road to independence in 2002 through the Australian-led...

Originally appeared in The Australian
Finance and Economics
The Road to Brexit

The Road to Brexit

Sebastian Reinehr Started 1 June 2017 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

A new book demonstrates that European integration has always been an elite project, writes Sebastian Reinehr. In his new book Continental Drift, American diplomat Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon...

Opinion
Why Canberra Will Ignore Trump’s Gaffes

Why Canberra Will Ignore Trump’s Gaffes

Andrew Shearer 19 May 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

It’s every intelligence chief’s nightmare – a phone call announcing the unexpected disclosure of highly sensitive secrets. The stakes are high: intelligence methods potentially...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Foreign Affairs and Trade
Turnbull And Trump Showed We Were Allies, Now To Work Together On China

Turnbull And Trump Showed We Were Allies, Now To Work Together On China

Andrew Shearer 8 May 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

Relief may be Malcolm Turnbull’s overwhelming emotion as he settles back for the long flight home from New York before a crucial budget. Returning to his home town and the inevitable...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Opinion
We Can’t Just Rely On US To Defend Australia

We Can’t Just Rely On US To Defend Australia

Andrew Shearer 12 April 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

The US missile strike in Syria, rising tensions with North Korea, China’s creeping militarisation of the South China Sea, and recent terror attacks all highlight an important reality...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
Opinion
US Has Sent Syria A Message

US Has Sent Syria A Message

Georgina Downer 7 April 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

There are seminal moments in a US presidency, often sadly sparked by catastrophe. Recall the Srebrenica Massacre for Bill Clinton and 9/11 for George W Bush. Likewise, Tuesday’s horrific...

Originally appeared in The Herald Sun
Opinion
No Escaping Brexit Lesson

No Escaping Brexit Lesson

Georgina Downer 1 April 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

Divorce is never easy. And a divorce after 44 years of unhappy marriage is harder still. Navigating the settlement, splitting the assets, untangling lives while remaining on speaking terms takes...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
Opinion
British Divorce Will Be Australia’s Gain

British Divorce Will Be Australia’s Gain

Georgina Downer 30 March 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

If June 23, 2016, marked the beginning of the end of Britain’s membership of the EU, today marks the end of that beginning. Now the two-year negotiating period for Britain to leave the EU...

Originally appeared in Daily Telegraph
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