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Government Services

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.
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Daniel Andrews’ Lockdowns Create Two Victorias

Daniel Andrews’ Lockdowns Create Two Victorias

Daniel Wild 14 October 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

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...

PUBLICATIONS
The ABC Has Just Moved Further From The Mainstream

The ABC Has Just Moved Further From The Mainstream

Evan Mulholland 4 October 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

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
Research Papers
Medical Capacity: An Alternative To Lockdowns

Medical Capacity: An Alternative To Lockdowns

Daniel Wild and Asher Judah 30 September 2020 Government services, Ipa today,

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...

PUBLICATIONS
Please Welcome Victoria’s First Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner

Please Welcome Victoria’s First Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner

Dara Macdonald 25 September 2020 Government services, Ipa today,

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
PUBLICATIONS
Dan Vs Democracy

Dan Vs Democracy

Daniel Wild 29 August 2020 Constitution and law, Government services,

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
PUBLICATIONS
Dan’s Divine Rule Betrays Our History

Dan’s Divine Rule Betrays Our History

John Roskam 28 August 2020 Constitution and law, Government services,

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
PUBLICATIONS
Double Standard At Play As PM Stays Silent On Andrews

Double Standard At Play As PM Stays Silent On Andrews

John Roskam 14 August 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

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...

Climate Change
Fire and Blame

Fire and Blame

Christine Finlay Started 13 August 2020 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

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...

To Be Released: How They Shortened the Odds

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

PUBLICATIONS
Private Sector Smashed While Bureaucrats Flourish In Lockdown

Private Sector Smashed While Bureaucrats Flourish In Lockdown

Cian Hussey 13 August 2020 Finance and economics, Government services,

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...

Ideas and Liberty
Uphold Values, Rebuild Wealth

Uphold Values, Rebuild Wealth

Daniel Wild Started 13 August 2020 Dignity of work, Government services,

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...

PUBLICATIONS
Checked Out: When Activism Quarantines Common Sense

Checked Out: When Activism Quarantines Common Sense

Bella d'Abrera 13 August 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

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
PUBLICATIONS
We’re Not All In This Together

We’re Not All In This Together

Cian Hussey 10 August 2020 Government services, Ipa today,

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
PUBLICATIONS
ABC Enforces Divisive Identity Politics In Leaked Document

ABC Enforces Divisive Identity Politics In Leaked Document

Evan Mulholland 7 August 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

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...

PUBLICATIONS
No Excuse For Shutting Parliament In The Digital Age

No Excuse For Shutting Parliament In The Digital Age

Evan Mulholland 20 July 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

There has never been a time since the end of World War II when it has been more important to scrutinise government and hold politicians to account. There are monumental issues for the federal...

Originally appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald
PUBLICATIONS
There Is No Smoking Sceptre At The Palace

There Is No Smoking Sceptre At The Palace

John Roskam and Morgan Begg 15 July 2020 Constitution and law, Government services,

The release of the “Palace Letters” reveals Queen Elizabeth had as much to do with the dismissal of the Whitlam government as did the CIA. The correspondence, now made public, between...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
PUBLICATIONS
Déjà Vu In Dan Andrewstan

Déjà Vu In Dan Andrewstan

Daniel Wild 8 July 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

“For those of us who are old enough to remember it is starting to feel like 1990 has come again,” James Campbell, the National Political Editor of the Herald Sun, wrote this week regarding the...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Finance and Economics
Tunnel Vision

Tunnel Vision

Scott Hargreaves and Daniel Wild Started 7 July 2020 Finance and economics, Government services,

Victoria’s infrastructure boom is being driven without regard to value, need or the inevitable fiscal reckoning

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