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What is the proper role of government? What services should the government provide, and not the private sector? Here you will find the IPA's work on the cause of limited government, the ABC, the proper running of government services in Australia and public sector reform.

Foreign Affairs and Trade

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...

Protected: Brexit is Our Battle Too

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IPA TV

Regulatory Dark Matter – Australia’s Secret Red Tape Crisis

Kurt Wallace 30 September 2019 Dignity of work, Government services,

Australia has a red tape crisis. And it’s the red tape you can’t see that’s making the problem worse. Kurt Wallace’s new report exposes Regulatory Dark Matter in...

Protected: Enjoying Freedom

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Finance and Economics

Tear Down That Euro

IPA Review Started 9 August 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

(This article first appeared in the August 2019 edition of the IPA Review). After spending the past half a year watching the Brexit drama unfold, it’s easy to forget another Euro crisis is still...

Finance and Economics

Boom or Bubble With Trump

Kurt Wallace Started 5 August 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

This article from the August 2019 IPA Review is by IPA Research Fellow, Kurt Wallace On 27 December 2016, just under a month before his inauguration, Donald Trump tweeted: “The world was gloomy...

PUBLICATIONS

Why Is NSW Fining Farmers Under Laws That No Longer Exist?

Kurt Wallace 16 July 2019 Government services, In the news,

The New South Wales government must grant an amnesty to all farmers who are being prosecuted under laws which no longer exist. They are facing huge fines of up to half a million dollars for...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

IPA TODAY

Race Has No Place

Morgan Begg and Daniel Wild 8 June 2019 Constitution and law, Government services,

All Australians are equal. Our legal status should not be determined by our skin colour or our race. This clear principle is being undermined by a campaign to divide Australians in our nation’s...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

Parliamentary Research Briefs

An Economic Policy Agenda For Mainstream Australia

Daniel Wild and Andrew Bushnell 3 June 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

The 2019 election result was driven by mainstream Australians rejecting an agenda to fundamentally transform Australia. The government now has an opportunity to build and reinforce institutional...

PUBLICATIONS

Bureaucrats Immersed In Canberra Bubble Out Of Touch With Nation

John Lloyd 3 June 2019 Dignity of work, Government services,

Last month’s federal election result throws up a worrying anomaly. The ACT electorates diverge markedly from the nation. In the ACT, the electors embrace the ALP big time. In the Canberra-based...

Originally appeared in The Australian

PUBLICATIONS

Labor Is Coming After Apple Pie-Baking Nanas

Daniel Wild 1 February 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

On Thursday, Labor’s Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen said something that a politician is never supposed to utter. At least not in public. In response to those who will face higher taxes under Labor’s...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

PUBLICATIONS

Labor’s Franking Credits Plan Adds Up To A Nana Tax

Sinclair Davidson 30 January 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

Australia’s dividend taxation regime is a complex solution to a simple problem. It is well known and understood that double taxation of corporate income gives rise to economic distortions...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review

Finance and Economics

A Tax or Attacks?

Dimitri Burshtein Started 1 December 2018 Finance and economics, Government services,

The simple solution to the burden of constant tax increases is for Australian governments to spend less, argues finance company director Dimitri Burshtein. Among the many theories of the...

FEATURED

A Keen Observer of Liberal Reform

Michael James Started 1 December 2018 Featured, Government services,

Former OECD Chief Economist David Henderson (1927-2018) was alert to growing threats to economic liberalism, writes Michael James. In the mid-1990s, economic liberalism seemed likely to become the...

Education and Skills

The Writing on the Wall

Bella d'Abrera Started 1 December 2018 Education and skills, Government services,

Returning to the true purpose of education can reverse plummeting academic standards, argues the IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Program director Bella d’Abrera. The evidence is in...

PUBLICATIONS

Regulators, The Royal Commission And Crony Capitalism

Daniel Wild 11 October 2018 Finance and economics, Government services,

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation, and Finances Services Industry has uncovered some inexcusable behaviour. Charging client’s fees without providing services...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

Government Services

To Yield And Not To Strive

Simon Breheny Started 1 October 2018 Government services,

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull promised ‘a thoroughly Liberal Government’ … but instead it was a thorough disappointment, argues Simon Breheny. In the years and decades to come, it is hard to...

IPA TODAY

IPA Urges Rethink Of State Ownership Of The ABC

Gideon Rozner 26 September 2018 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today called on the Morrison Government to privatise the ABC in light of allegations of editorial interference by ABC Chair Justin Milne...

Government Services

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