On March 30, New South Wales went to bed in a liberal democracy and woke up in a police state as with a stroke of a pen Brad Hazzard signed into law an Orwellian directive. The Public Health...
To control the spread of a dangerous virus that as yet has taken 24 lives in this country, 25 million Australians have been placed under indefinite house arrest, children’s playgrounds are...
A new daily email by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, providing the latest economic data and policy measures for journalists, commentators and IPA members. Latest daily...
Rather than engaging in a shortsighted and reckless cash splash, the federal government should seize the opportunity created by the economic fallout from the coronavirus to cut red tape, reduce...
In October last year, the SBS joined the Your Right to Know Coalition, a push from the major media outlets to put pressure on parliament to improve freedom of information and other laws so that...
On Monday, Paul Barry on Media Watch covered a new poll by the Institute of Public Affairs released last week. Reported in news.com.au it found that one third of Australians think the ABC does not...
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has called on the Morrison Government to rule out giving more taxpayer dollars to the ABC that already receives over $1.1 billion per year...
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has called on local councils to reduce red tape and stick to their knitting as a new poll confirms Australians’ hostility towards this...
In the Battle of Bridget, the unelected bureaucrats have triumphed over the will of the Victorian people with the effect of diminishing the value of our democracy. Senator Bridget McKenzie has...
The real scandal in the grants administered by Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie is that unelected bureaucrats at the Australian National Audit Office engaged in political hit job against a...
As revealed in The Australian today, a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Institute of Public Affairs has revealed that former prime minister Tony Abbott and president of LibertyWorks...
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...
