Gender quotas bake in cookie-cutter MPs
One of the problems when you start replacing merit as the criterion for appointment to a position or role, or to become a Liberal Party MP, with some other basis for selection is it’s difficult to...
One of the problems when you start replacing merit as the criterion for appointment to a position or role, or to become a Liberal Party MP, with some other basis for selection is it’s difficult to...
Aaron Patrick was right to point out that the lines between journalism and activism are being blurred. It was also correct for journalists to point out horrible accounts of sexism and problems...
Dr Sherry Sufi is Chairman of the WA Liberal Party’s Policy Committee. He is an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. His PhD was on language and nationalism. The opinions expressed...
One thing all the recent media attention on the behaviour of MPs and their staff in Parliament House has not done is derail the Morrison government’s policy reform agenda – because there isn’t...
I once worked for Malcolm Turnbull’s government, now it is almost a mark of shame to even bring that fact up. After leaving the government in 2016 for the warm embrace of the IPA, a friend said to...
The way Liberal parties in Australia constantly abandon their voters to embark on reckless climate agendas means that instead of cancelling Pepe le Pew, the cartoon skunk should be studied closely...
Summoning Magna Carta: Freedom’s Symbol Over a Millennium, is the follow-up to Magna Carta: The Tax Revolt That Gave Us Liberty, written by John Roskam and Chris Berg, and released in 2015 for the...
It’s true the coronavirus has made the job of being in opposition difficult. It’s understandable at times of crisis the public want stability and unity, not criticism and division. What’s less...
Before The Economist magazine became the in-house journal for the woke business elite, it printed a fascinating article entitled “The burden of history” about how the past is viewed in the...
Read Tony Abbott’s comments here. Watch the video here. John Roskam: Hello – My name is John Roskam – I am the Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. I’m...
Key findings : The quality of the Australian way of life is collapsing. The Australian Way of Life Scoreboard, which measures the quality of the Australian way of life, has declined by 28.5%...
This article from the Summer 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by Melbourne free speech activist, Magnus O’Mallon. Being a virus, Marxism has its strains. Increasingly, the strain of the...
This article from the Summer 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Adjunct Fellow, Zachary Gorman. The unique circumstances of the pandemic have seen age-old questions about the rights...
This article from the Summer 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Director of Research, Daniel Wild. In his famous speech at Mount Rushmore for Fourth of July celebrations this year...
This article from the Summer 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by former industry lobbyist and pistol enthusiast, Kate Fantinel. Books reviewed: GUN CONTROL: What Australia did, how other...
This article from the Summer 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Research Fellow, Dara Macdonald. Back in 2019, before COVID-19 dominated every news cycle, the front pages of papers...
Australian democracy faces a crisis of representation. People feel alienated from our politics and our institutions. Donkey votes are up, minor parties’ votes are up, and the major parties...