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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

Sell the ABC

Chris Lewis Started 1 April 2016 Government services,

To fulfil its role as a public broadcaster the Australian Broadcasting Corporation no longer requires government funding. Notwithstanding the Essential public opinion polls in 2013 and 2014...

Research Papers

Driving A Soft Bargain

James Paterson and Aaron Lane 15 December 2015 Government services, Research papers,

All current Australian Public Service Enterprise Agreements have a nominal expiry date of 30 June 2014, and are currently in the bargaining stage for the next suite of agreements. This report...

The Case for Personal Income Taxation Cuts

Darcy Allen Started 5 December 2015 Finance and economics, Government services,

Tax reform would benefit by following one simple motif: don’t tax what you want more of. It follows that cutting income tax rates should be a boon for the Australian economy-freeing up...

Government Services

Big or Bigger Government?

Aline LeGuen Started 1 December 2015 Government services,

This edition of the IPA Review focuses on our current political landscape—which has been somewhat unsteady of late. Th e tension within the Coalition federal government was put to rest with...

Government Services

Two Futures

Arthur Chrenkoff Started 1 December 2015 Government services,

This book arguably tells us more about the present than the future, and even more about today’s Labor Party, writes Arthur Chrenkoff . What do political young guns do these days to make themselves...

Government Services

Idealism Meets Reality

Simon Breheny Started 1 December 2015 Government services,

There are political lessons in Peter Garrett’s career, writes Simon Breheny. Talking about your earnest belief in principle is not enough to achieve change. Like many of my generation, I grew up...

Government Services

Hasluck Too Serious For Politics

Richard Allsop Started 1 December 2015 Government services,

Very few individuals with the intellectual depth of Paul Hasluck have reached the highest levels of Australian politics, writes Dr Richard Allsop. There are two major ‘what ifs’ in Australian...

Education and Skills

School Choice Is The Best Choice

Hannah Pandel Started 1 December 2015 Education and skills, Government services,

Parents deserve the right to choose which school best meets the needs of their children, writes Hannah Pandel. The war over school choice has been reignited and once again, opponents of...

Government Services

Breaking The Myth of ‘Good’ Big Government

Mikayla Novak Started 1 December 2015 Government services, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

Many progressives and social democrats have clung to the idea that the Scandinavian countries like Sweden off er the world a vision that other countries should replicate, writes Dr Mikayla Novak...

Ideas and Liberty

That Was Right- Principle in Politics

IPA Review Started 1 December 2015 Freedom of speech, Government services,

If you stand on the basis of principle you may go wrong, but you will never go far wrong, said Prime Minister Robert Menzies in his 1954 address to the IPA. Th is is an extract of one of the most...

Government Services

How to be a Thoroughly Liberal Government

Chris Berg and James Paterson Started 1 December 2015 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

On Saturday 10 April 1954, Robert Menzies gave an after dinner speech to the Institute of Public Affairs. The event was a private one, held in Melbourne, and Menzies relished what he thought would...

Government Services

Small ‘l’ Liberals

Richard Allsop Started 1 August 2015 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

Victoria was once ‘the jewel in the crown’ of the Liberal Party. As well as providing six of the first seven Federal leaders of the party, the Victorian Liberal Party held power in its own right...

Finance and Economics

When Monopolies Work

Mikayla Novak Started 1 May 2015 Finance and economics, Government services,

When one of the leading participants in the development of the digital economy writes a book about the essences of business management, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the modern world, it...

Finance and Economics

Reforming Taxation Isn’t About Increasing Taxes

Peter Hendy Started 1 May 2015 Finance and economics, Government services,

In the United States they say that the states are the ‘laboratories of democracy’. What they mean is that a federal system—made up of a separate national government and numerous regional (state)...

Government Services

Net Neutrality is Techno Socialism

Peter Gregory Started 1 May 2015 Government services,

Net neutrality is a grab-bag of cartoonish anti-corporate populism. The introduction of net neutrality rules by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late February is a threat to the...

Voluntary Voting

James Paterson Started 10 April 2015 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

Research conducted by Newspoll for the Institute of Public Affairs indicates that there is only moderate community support for a change to voluntary voting, but that doesn’t mean it...

Government Services

Collapse of the Unions

Brett Hogan Started 1 April 2015 Government services,

The Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption, which ran for a total of twenty one months throughout 2014 and 2015, at times resembled a political carnival. A headline attraction...

Government Services

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