Unions’ Last Stand
This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by labour and management historian, Bradley Bowden. Many myths purport to explain union decline in Australia; myth entrenched...
Send out the Clowns
This book review from the Winter 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Research Fellow, Cian Hussey. According to a 2019 election study published by the Australian National University...
Danger Across The Ditch As Incompetent Leader Ardern Wins Office
Nobody skewered Barack Obama during his presidency like legendary comedian Dennis Miller. “It’s not all that dramatic with me and Obama,” Miller once told his audience. “It’s not racist, it’s not...
Originally appeared in The Australian
Still the Sunshine State?
Marcus Smith and Dan Petrie
Started 14 October 2020
Environment and agriculture, Finance and economics,
This article from the forthcoming Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by economists Marcus Smith and Dan Petrie. The Queensland state election on 31 October will provide voters with...
Daniel Andrews’ Lockdowns Create Two Victorias
A new poll of 1,042 Victorians commissioned by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs demonstrates that the lockdown measures implemented by the Andrews government has created two...
The ABC Has Just Moved Further From The Mainstream
Perhaps the staff at the ABC voted themselves a pay rise so they could donate the extra money to the 606,000 Australians who have lost their job in the private sector since March because of the...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Medical Capacity: An Alternative To Lockdowns
The best available domestic and international evidence suggests that lockdowns don’t work. They impose significant social, cultural, humanitarian, and economic costs while at best being of...
Please Welcome Victoria’s First Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Victorian Government last week decided to announce the appointment of the first Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner, Dr Niki...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Dan Vs Democracy
When Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says that it is ‘foreseeable’ that a state of emergency could last beyond another 12 months, Australians would not be out of place in wondering if that means...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Dan’s Divine Rule Betrays Our History
Most Victorians wouldn’t have a clue what you were talking about if you said Premier Daniel Andrews was acting like King Charles I. Coronavirus or not, the government of the state of...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Double Standard At Play As PM Stays Silent On Andrews
If Daniel Andrews were a bank chief executive instead of a state premier, he would have been forced to resign weeks ago. And the person leading the demands for Andrews’ resignation would...
Fire and Blame
This article from the Winter 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by bushfire expert Dr Christine Finlay.* As bushfires peaked in the Australian summer of 2019-20, we heard a lot of the myth...
How They Shortened the Odds
This article from the Winter 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by barrister, Stuart Wood. I have known Bill Shorten—distantly—half my life. We went to school and university in Melbourne at...
Private Sector Smashed While Bureaucrats Flourish In Lockdown
More than 604,000 private sector jobs have been destroyed since lockdowns were introduced in March while 14,000 jobs have been added to the public sector according to an analysis of Australian...
Uphold Values, Rebuild Wealth
This article from the Winter 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Director of Research, Daniel Wild. As the tide of the pandemic and government-imposed restrictions in Australia has...
Checked Out: When Activism Quarantines Common Sense
If you want to know what is going wrong in Victoria, all you need do is look at a job being advertised on Seek by the state’s Department of Justice and Community Safety. The department wishes to...
Originally appeared in The Australian
We’re Not All In This Together
As Victoria is plunged back into lockdowns, with those in greater Melbourne facing unprecedented restrictions on their every move, the difference between the two Australias has never been so...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
ABC Enforces Divisive Identity Politics In Leaked Document
An internal ABC document obtained by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has exposed the divisive identity politics that is being forced onto mainstream Australians by the...