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...
The latest annual IMF Australia Consultation might have passed unnoticed but for this highly damning statement: “the new mediocre”. Perhaps they were being polite –...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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 Adjunct Fellow Georgina Downer explains why Britain should vote to leave the European Union, and what it would mean for Australia.
On 23 June, Britons will be asked, Brexit or not? The answer will have seismic ramifications for the future of democracy, sovereignty and freedom. No lesser advocates than Boris Johnson and Prime...
There were few bright spots for the Coalition government in 2014, but trade was definitely one of them. Where the Gillard-Rudd governments had made overtures to Asia, spouting rhetoric about the...
This article from the July 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher at the IPA, Peter Gregory. The major contribution of William Easterly’s new book, The Tyranny of Experts, is simple and...
This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Researcher at the IPA, Peter Gregory. Following the horrific Rana Plaza building collapse in April which claimed over...
This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is by editor, James Peterson. Conventional wisdom suggests that the Republican Party’s decision to ‘shut down’ the US government for...
This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the Deregulation Unit at the IPA, Alan Moran. The Chinese economic miracle is the latest and most comprehensive...
This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the Legal Rights Project at the IPA, Simon Breheny. Australian barrister and international lawyer Geoffrey Robertson...
