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Ideas and Liberty

The debate over individual liberty is never over, and it is waged over various philosophical concepts and news stories. Here you will find the IPA's work on the advancement of individual liberty and the ideas that underpin a free society.

Faith and Society

How’s That?

Daniel Wild Started 18 November 2019 Faith and society, Ideas and liberty,

This article from the October 2019 IPA Review is by IPA Director of Research, Daniel Wild. The greatness of test match cricket has been on full display over the Ashes series between Australia and...

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What The Liberals Must Learn From Labor

John Roskam 8 November 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

The Labor Party’s review of its federal election debacle was delivered to the party’s national executive on Thursday. Apparently the review has concluded the ALP ran a poor campaign...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review

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Race Has No Place in the Constitution

IPA 31 October 2019 Freedom of speech, Ideas and liberty,

Proposals to write a so-called Voice to Parliament into our Constitution will divide Australians along racial lines. This would be bad for our democracy and our nation. We are all equal. Today the...

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Let’s Be An Open, Modern Society Without Trashing Our Heritage

Gideon Rozner 31 October 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

For a political party that preaches tolerance, the Greens never miss an opportunity to take a whack at Australia’s roughly 12 million Christians. So it was this week, when the NSW Greens took aim...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

Faith and Society

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...

Ideas and Liberty

New Clear Future

IPA Review Started 21 October 2019 Energy and resources, Environment and agriculture,

Dayne Eckermann is General Manager at Bright New World, which is based in Adelaide, Australia. Nuclear advocates have long felt that once people start to look again at nuclear technology, confront...

To Be Released: Made In Hong Kong

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Freedom of Speech

Crazy Intersectional Zillenials

IPA Review Started 21 October 2019 Freedom of speech, Ideas and liberty,

This article by Kyle Williams was published in the Spring 2019 edition of the IPA Review. If you have followed youth and university politics over the past few years you have almost certainly...

To Be Released: The Mass Delusions Of Modern Psychology

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Age Of Appeasement

Morgan Begg 21 October 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

We can be thankful to the Hong Kong protesters for highlighting the moral conflict at the heart of the rivalry between Red China and the West. While an important aspect of the power struggle is...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

Ideas and Liberty

Australian Values And The Enduring Importance Of The Nation-State

Daniel Wild, Zachary Gorman and Andrew Bushnell 18 October 2019 Finance and economics, Ideas and liberty,

The preparation of Australian values and the enduring importance of the nation-state is motivated by the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee’s Inquiry into nationhood...

Foreign Affairs and Trade

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

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...

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Sydney Motorists Do Not Want A Congestion Tax

Andrew Bushnell 15 October 2019 Finance and economics, Ideas and liberty,

If there were fewer poor people on the roads, rich people could get to work more easily and everyone would be better off. This, in a nutshell, is the argument for the congestion tax, a charge on...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

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Identity Politics Thrives On The Ideas That Divide Us

John Roskam 11 October 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

Everything that’s wrong with the toxic culture of identity politics was revealed by the reaction to a photo of four people watching an NFL football game in the United States on Sunday. At...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review

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Why Hong Kong Matters

Daniel Wild 4 October 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

As the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its 70 years of rule in China on Tuesday, an 18-year old anti-government student protester in Hong Kong was shot at point blank range in the chest by...

Originally appeared in Herald Sun

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Braving Two Terrifying Tribes: Academics And Racism Warriors

Scott Hargreaves 3 October 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, who died this week aged 81, was in the last generation of that profession who could claim to have studied an indigenous culture more or less unsullied by contact...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

IPA TODAY

Two Days In Bankstown Won’t Change The ABC’s Elitist Culture

Patrick Hannaford 25 September 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

The ABC is going to Bankstown. That’s right. In a bizarre move that highlights how insular the organisation has become, ABC chairwoman Ita Buttrose and managing direction David Anderson will join...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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