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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.

Government Services

Smothered by Nostalgia

Daniel Wild Started 1 December 2016 Government services,

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...

Dignity of Work

Uber Markets

Evan Mulholland Started 1 December 2016 Dignity of work, Government services,

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...

Government Services

The Big Cure

Jason Potts Started 1 December 2016 Government services,

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...

Opinion

Public Service Perks Don’t Pass The Pub Test

Aaron Lane 17 November 2016 Government services, Ipa today,

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...

Federal Spending A Dangerous Drug Of Dependence

Brett Hogan 22 September 2016 Government services, Opinion,

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...

Government Services

Is Reform Hopeless In An Era Of Disillusion?

Chris Berg Started 29 August 2016 Government services,

Around 23 per cent of Australians gave their primary vote to minor parties and independents at the July federal election. This is the highest number since the formation of the Liberal Party and...

Opinion

Still A Strong Case For Keeping Privatisation In The Reform Tool Kit

Mikayla Novak 22 August 2016 Finance and economics, Government services,

Despite recent concerns raised by the head of Australia’s competition watchdog, privatisation remains a viable reform option. Even though it has been firmly established as a modern economic...

Volunteerism And Civil Society

IPA Review Started 21 August 2016 Government services, Publications,

The United Firefighters Union’s attempted power grab over the Country Fire Authority is more than a Victorian industrial dispute, it’s an attack on civil society and the Australian tradition of...

Opinion

Energy Ministers Need To Facilitate, Not Limit, Consumer Choices

Brett Hogan 19 August 2016 Energy and resources, Government services,

As the nation’s Energy Ministers prepare for Friday’s meeting in Canberra to discuss how to “ensure energy markets remain stable and secure” it would be a major step...

Opinion

ABS Census Farce Reminds Us Statistics Are The ‘Eyes Of The Bureaucrat’

John Roskam 12 August 2016 Faith and society, Government services,

In 1961, Murray Rothbard, the most important libertarian economist of the 20th century, wrote about the evils of government statistics. “Statistics are the eyes and ears of the bureaucrat...

Government Services

Spill the Beans

James Bolt Started 1 August 2016 Government services,

Ever wondered why coffee sometimes spills when you walk? What’s that? You’ve literally wondered that every waking second of your life? The endless pursuit of the truth has left you unemployable...

Government Services

Trump: Chief Critic of American Conservatism

Andrew Bushnell Started 1 August 2016 Government services,

The outcry associated with Trump fundamentally misunderstands right-wing politics, writes Andrew Bushnell Since the Second World War, right-wing politics in the United States has been dominated...

Government Services

The Golden Age

Richard Allsop Started 1 August 2016 Government services,

Is the so-called political heyday really the decade that transformed the country? Writes Richard Allsop You could probably write a history of any decade in the nation’s 20th century and give it...

Opinion

Government Services

Smothered by Nostalgia

Uber Markets

The Big Cure

Public Service Perks Don’t Pass The Pub Test

Federal Spending A Dangerous Drug Of Dependence

Is Reform Hopeless In An Era Of Disillusion?

Still A Strong Case For Keeping Privatisation In The Reform Tool Kit

Volunteerism And Civil Society

Energy Ministers Need To Facilitate, Not Limit, Consumer Choices

ABS Census Farce Reminds Us Statistics Are The ‘Eyes Of The Bureaucrat’

Spill the Beans

Trump: Chief Critic of American Conservatism

The Golden Age

What Is The Meaning Of Andrew Leigh’s Pay Cut?

Red Tape Strangling Opportunity

Now Not The Time To Retreat From Health Reform

Potential Rorting A Warning For PaTH Program

Get More Cops On The Beat To Stop Violent Crime Wave

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