Our new research brief askes five questions on the size and cost of the Commonwealth Public Sector. Recent data shows that public sector employee numbers are declining, but the public sector...
1: ORGANISE A MEETING WITH RUSSIAN OFFICIALS IN YOUR OWN NAME Donald Trump Jnr organised a meeting with a Russian lawyer with alleged connections with the Kremlin after being promised damaging...
It wasn’t until late November this year that the federal government remembered its long-term promise to cut taxes. Unfortunately, this wasn’t a return to serious economic reform—it was a...
Despite doubts about his age, intellect, and political philosophy, Ronald Reagan’s message of hope won him the presidency, writes Richard Allsop. ‘We have just witnessed the political funeral of...
Australian defence procurement must avoid the creep of industry policy, which only leads to cost blowouts and delays, writes Erik M. Jacobs. Security challenges in the Asia-Pacific region have...
Modern governments use a lot of data. A lot. Our social services are organised by massive databases. Health, welfare, education and the pension all require reams of information about identity...
A new book demonstrates that European integration has always been an elite project, writes Sebastian Reinehr. In his new book Continental Drift, American diplomat Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon...
Britain should be worried about Theresa May seeking political inspiration from Joseph Chamberlain, writes Richard Allsop. Nick Timothy, the former Chief of Staff to UK Prime Minister Theresa May...
‘Drain the swamp’ was a core message of Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign. This simple message referenced the entrenched special interests feeding from the taxpayer-funded trough in Washington...
The Australia Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) should be abolished. 1. The ACMA is a threat to free speech. 2. The ACMA’s functions are redundant. 3. The ACMA imposes costs on the...
Seven years have passed since a campaign for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was launched by disability service providers and several funded advocacy bodies. Its architects...
Australia’s bloated bureaucracy stems back to colonial days and just keeps getting bigger, writes William Coleman. ‘Public Servant’—in the sense of ‘government employee’—is an Australianism that...
Paul Keating’s economic reforms put today’s poll-driven politicians to shame, writes Richard Allsop. Almost a decade ago, the IPA Review published a cover story about Paul Keating headlined ‘What...
Politicians yearning for a nostalgic return to glory days are failing modern America, according to a book reviewed by Daniel Wild. Modern politics in America has a nostalgia problem. Americans...
Uber and Airbnb are part of a wider market revolution changing the way the world does business, writes Evan Mulholland. The last few decades have delivered us a monumental shift in how we...
New technology can fix Australia’s ailing health system, but only if To fix health care and human services – two government programs as egregiously expensive as they are important – we...
Enterprise bargaining is a two-way street. Public sector unions cannot continue to argue that well-paid public servants deserve additional entitlements without considering the trade-offs that...
While the deal struck last week between the government and opposition to get $6.3 billion of savings over four years through the Parliament is welcome, it is still just treating the symptoms...
