As Scott Morrison eyes consensus-based industrial relations reform, he must not commit the ultimate sin for any Liberal leader and forget Sir Robert Menzies’ forgotten people. As part of his...
The Institute of Public Affairs (“the IPA”) Is committed to undertaking research to promote the human dignity of all Australians. At the heart of human dignity is individual freedom. This is why a...
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are two foundational components of a free, liberal democratic nation like Australia. Never has this been truer than in the current debate over the...
Australia will live or die by the success of private enterprise. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 75 per cent of all jobs in Australia are created in the private sector, with the...
This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Campus Coordinator, Theodora Pantelich. The number of young people supporting or advocating for socialism has risen...
This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Adjunct Fellow, Matthew Lesh. A friend warned me I wasn’t going to like what’s up there: “It’s two bad words.” The...
This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by Research Fellow at the IPA, Andrew Bushnell. Sir Roger Scruton, philosopher and conservative, died on 12 January at the...
Despite the sweet-sounding idea that we are all in this together, the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis are not being shared anywhere equally. Look at the University of Sydney, where casual...
As I write this, coronavirus isolation measures are being eased in almost every state and territory in Australia. But in Victoria, Daniel Andrews is refusing to budge on his lockdown, citing...
There’s a fine line between the government protecting people and punishing them. It might be that in the context of the COVID-19 crisis that line is about to be crossed – if it hasn’t...
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...
History will likely say that the comic book industry was sunk by the repressive measures adopted to control the spread of coronavirus. In reality it is the industry’s bizarre obsession with...
The Prime Minister’s call for Australians to heed the advice of his government’s experts may fall on deaf ears because the experts and elites have let this country down so many times before, In...
The government’s proposed religious discrimination bill puts the shoe on the other foot, and now the activists who championed every other discrimination law are bemoaning the “divisiveness” of...
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...
