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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.
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
Opinion
Donald Trump’s New Security Adviser Must Learn To Master Chaos

Donald Trump’s New Security Adviser Must Learn To Master Chaos

Andrew Shearer 22 February 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

After just four weeks, the Trump administration finds itself beset by problems, many of them related to national security: the botched executive order on immigration; a gush of leaks from the...

Originally appeared in Financial Review
Opinion
IMF Report Shows Old-Time Fiscal Religion Is Needed To Counter The New Mediocre

IMF Report Shows Old-Time Fiscal Religion Is Needed To Counter The New Mediocre

Sinclair Davidson 20 February 2017 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

The latest annual IMF Australia Consultation might have passed unnoticed but for this highly damning statement: “the new mediocre”. Perhaps they were being polite –...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Opinion
Trump’s Artless Deals Will Deeply Disturb Allies After Turnbull Call

Trump’s Artless Deals Will Deeply Disturb Allies After Turnbull Call

Andrew Shearer 3 February 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

Tough phone calls between Australian prime ministers and other world leaders are nothing new; I have been present for a number of them. Even when the messages are firm and the differences great...

Opinion
The UK’s Relationship With Australia Will Be Revitalised After Brexit

The UK’s Relationship With Australia Will Be Revitalised After Brexit

Matthew Lesh 30 January 2017 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

Theresa May confirmed in her landmark speech at Lancaster House earlier in the month that Brexit really does mean Brexit. Britain will be leaving the economically strangling common market...

Opinion
Shinzo Abe’s Visit Remind Us What A Crucial Ally He Is To Australia

Shinzo Abe’s Visit Remind Us What A Crucial Ally He Is To Australia

Andrew Shearer 16 January 2017 Foreign affairs and trade, Ipa today,

It is doubtful many Australians realise what a consequential leader Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been for Australia. During Abe’s first, truncated term as prime minister he and his...

Trump’s America

Trump’s America

Daniel Wild and Scott Hargreaves Started 13 January 2017 Energy and resources, Foreign affairs and trade,

A Trump administration will be a net positive for the United States’ economy. Yes, restricting international trade will harm growth. But the ambitious agenda to cut corporate and income...

Opinion
A Political Lesson For Australian Politics From Brexit And Trump

A Political Lesson For Australian Politics From Brexit And Trump

John Roskam 16 December 2016 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

In Reflections on the Revolution in France published in 1790, Edmund Burke concluded that “A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation”...

Media Releases
Labor’s Books Backdown A Protectionist Throwback

Labor’s Books Backdown A Protectionist Throwback

Evan Mulholland 9 December 2016 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

Parallel Import Restrictions on books are an effective tariff on international trade, similar to the archaic tariffs that were abolished under the Hawke-Keating government. “Labor’s...

Opinion
Britian’s First Post-Brexit PM Theresa May Will Be Tested

Britian’s First Post-Brexit PM Theresa May Will Be Tested

Georgina Downer 14 July 2016 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

Theresa May is Britain’s new prime minister. Should we “Keep Calm and Carry On” or hit the panic button? The initial reaction from markets and the British political establishment...

Opinion
Protectionists Do Australia No Favours

Protectionists Do Australia No Favours

Mikayla Novak 8 July 2016 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

The federal Parliament is now stacked with politicians peddling anti-globalisation agendas contrary to Australia’s interests. The underlying motivations for the Turnbull government to call...

IPA TV
Why Britain Should Vote ‘Leave’

Why Britain Should Vote ‘Leave’

Georgina Downer 21 June 2016 Foreign affairs and trade, Ideas and liberty,

IPA Adjunct Fellow Georgina Downer explains why Britain should vote to leave the European Union, and what it would mean for Australia.

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