Robodebt – the automated Centrelink debt issuance program that was found invalid by a federal court last month – is not just an embarrassment for the government. It is the first truly twenty-first...
Far from being a disinterested arbiter of banking regulation, Kenneth Hayne’s comments about climate change have proven he is just another left-wing representative of the Canberra swamp and the...
Yesterday, Scott Morrison announced the number of federal government departments would be cut from 18 to 14. Even if the Prime Minister hasn’t quite pulled the plug on the Canberra swamp...
This article from the October 2019 IPA Review is by IPA Senior Fellow, Richard Allsop. At a March 1901 banquet in London celebrating the Federation of the Australian colonies, British Liberal...
This article from the October 2019 IPA Review is by IPA Research Fellow, Kurt Wallace. For a supposedly free market economy where prices are formed by the market, an inordinate amount of attention...
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...
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...
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...
(This article by David Furse-Roberts first appeared in the August 2019 edition of the IPA Review). The colonisation and development of modern Australia represented one of the great projects of...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
