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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.
PUBLICATIONS
SBS Is Mocking “Your Right to Know”

SBS Is Mocking “Your Right to Know”

Morgan Begg and Evan Mulholland 11 March 2020 Climate change, Government services,

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...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
IPA TODAY
Media Watch Watch

Media Watch Watch

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

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...

PUBLICATIONS
Poll: Only 32% Of Australians Believe The ABC Represents The Views Of Ordinary Australians

Poll: Only 32% Of Australians Believe The ABC Represents The Views Of Ordinary Australians

Gideon Rozner 27 February 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

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...

PUBLICATIONS
Poll: Local Councils Should Stick To Roads, Rates And Rubbish

Poll: Local Councils Should Stick To Roads, Rates And Rubbish

Gideon Rozner 19 February 2020 Government services, Ipa today,

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...

PUBLICATIONS
McKenzie’s Removal Was A Bad Day For Democracy

McKenzie’s Removal Was A Bad Day For Democracy

Daniel Wild 7 February 2020 Government services, Ipa today,

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...

Originally appeared in Herald Sun
PUBLICATIONS
Unelected Bureaucrats Engaged In ‘Political Hit Job’ At Labor’s Request

Unelected Bureaucrats Engaged In ‘Political Hit Job’ At Labor’s Request

Daniel Wild 3 February 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

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...

Originally appeared in Sky News Online
PUBLICATIONS
We Need A Full Public Inquiry Into Labor And The Pen-Pushers’ CPAC Outrage

We Need A Full Public Inquiry Into Labor And The Pen-Pushers’ CPAC Outrage

Evan Mulholland 31 January 2020 Freedom of speech, Government services,

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...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
PUBLICATIONS
Automating The Big State Will Need More Than Computers

Automating The Big State Will Need More Than Computers

Chris Berg 20 December 2019 Government services, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

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...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
PUBLICATIONS
Hayne Is The Green Harbinger Of More Red Tape

Hayne Is The Green Harbinger Of More Red Tape

Daniel Wild 10 December 2019 Climate change, Government services,

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...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
PUBLICATIONS
Canberra Swamp Needs Draining

Canberra Swamp Needs Draining

John Roskam 6 December 2019 Government services, Ipa today,

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...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Faith and Society
Liberal Speaks Volumes

Liberal Speaks Volumes

Richard Allsop Started 21 October 2019 Faith and society, Freedom of speech,

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...

Finance and Economics
Gambling Our Future

Gambling Our Future

Kurt Wallace Started 21 October 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

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...

Foreign Affairs and Trade
Los Ignorantes

Los Ignorantes

IPA Review Started 17 October 2019 Foreign affairs and trade, Government services,

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...

Finance and Economics
Brexit is Our Battle Too

Brexit is Our Battle Too

Scott Hargreaves Started 17 October 2019 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

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...

IPA TV
Regulatory Dark Matter – Australia’s Secret Red Tape Crisis

Regulatory Dark Matter – Australia’s Secret Red Tape Crisis

Kurt Wallace 30 September 2019 Dignity of work, Government services,

  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...

Ideas and Liberty
Enjoying Freedom

Enjoying Freedom

IPA Review Started 9 August 2019 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

(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...

Finance and Economics
Tear Down That Euro

Tear Down That Euro

IPA Review Started 9 August 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

(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...

Finance and Economics
Boom or Bubble With Trump

Boom or Bubble With Trump

Kurt Wallace Started 5 August 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

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...

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