American founding father Benjamin Franklin once wrote: “Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” Since...
On Saturday, March 19th, 2019, Dr Zachary Gorman, IPA Research Fellow, delivered a speech on liberalism in Western Australia at LibertyFest, held in Perth, WA. The speech follows below. At last...
The Institute of Public Affairs has today rejected Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s proposal for more government regulation and control of social media and the internet. “Open-ended calls for...
Captain Marvel, released to cinemas this month, is more than just another addition to the already saturated superhero film market. It is a perfect case study in a social justice takeover of a pop...
Australian boys and men seeking help for mental illness may soon find themselves being lectured about toxic masculinity and white privilege. The Australian Psychological Society (APS), Australia’s...
On Thursday, Labor’s Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen said something that a politician is never supposed to utter. At least not in public. In response to those who will face higher taxes under Labor’s...
In his book The Strange Death of Europe – Immigration, Identity, and Islam the British writer Douglas Murray compares the attitude many Australians have about their country’s...
75% of Australians want Australia Day to stay on January 26, while only 10% want it moved. Watch the IPA’s Dr Bella d’Abrera explain the results of the new poll commissioned by the...
If your only way of finding out about what’s happening in this country is either by listening to ABC or reading the Guardian, you’d think the entire country is embarrassed about being Australian...
With this year’s federal election now only a few months away, the main themes of the Liberals’ campaign are becoming clear. The Liberals will spend a lot of time talking about...
These days much is made of the so-called “crisis of democracy” in the West. At one level it’s hard to disagree with the view that even if democracy is not in crisis, at a minimum...
The intellectual dark web has outsmarted the cultural left’s gatekeepers by speaking directly to a growing audience of millions of conservatives, classical liberals and libertarians, writes...
Benefits for workers are the real success of modern management in free market societies, writes Professor Bradley Bowden (originally published in the October 2018 IPA Review). Management, as a...
It is disappointing that Malcolm Turnbull appears to be taking part in the same headline-grabbing antics for which he has criticised others. When his efforts to get clean air and run with a...
Hans Rosling’s posthumous book Factfulness proves Louis Armstrong and Paul McCartney were right: it’s a wonderful world and getting better all the time, writes reformed pessimist Richard Conrad...
Analysis of books circulating in 19th century Australia suggests a deep engagement with the ‘conservative enlightenment’, argues Chris Berg. How can we know how 19th century Australians thought...
Former OECD Chief Economist David Henderson (1927-2018) was alert to growing threats to economic liberalism, writes Michael James. In the mid-1990s, economic liberalism seemed likely to become the...
The quiet majority perturbed by the rise of victimhood culture need to speak out more often, writes sociologist Tiffany Jenkins. Shortly after midnight on Monday, 4 March 2013, a female student...
