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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.

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Lest We Regret

David Cragg Started 30 May 2019 Book reviews, Ideas and liberty,

This article by David Cragg first appeared in the April 2019 edition of the IPA Review. David Cragg is a Life Member of the ALP, and a Trustee of the Victorian Trades Hall & Literary...

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All Australians Are Equal

Daniel Wild 29 May 2019 Constitution and law, Ideas and liberty,

“The Morrison government must not hold a referendum which would ask Australians to divide themselves by race”, said Daniel Wild, Director of Research with the free market think tank the Institute...

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The Minors Are Now Major Parties, Despite Old Player And Media Whinges

Scott Hargreaves 28 May 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

Is there really a continuing drift away from the major parties in Australian parties? Like many I have in recent years bought into the narrative that we live in an age of political disruption –...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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The Sun Is Setting On Three Decades Of Free Market Economics

John Roskam 17 May 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

How much Australia has changed over the past decade can be seen from the difference between what Kevin Rudd as Labor opposition leader said to get elected in 2007 and what Bill Shorten is saying...

Originally appeared in Daily Telegraph

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Latest First Home Buyers Policy Is Shortsighted And Likely To Create A Bubble

Daniel Wild 14 May 2019 Ideas and liberty, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

The now-bipartisan bank deposit subsidy scheme is a shortsighted policy which, far from solving the problem of housing affordability, is likely to push up house prices and make housing less...

Originally appeared in Daily Telegraph

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A Big Hand For God

Evan Mulholland Started 9 May 2019 Book reviews, Ideas and liberty,

Universality is a key tenet of Christianity which has led to human rights as we know it today, the abolition of slavery, the idea of the individual, feminism, equality before the law, and...

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Measuring The Damage

Andrew Bushnell Started 9 May 2019 Book reviews, Ideas and liberty,

The futility of attempting to measure the immeasurable is familiar to many government workers. Before coming to the IPA, I had a small role in a Victorian Education Department team implementing...

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Six Seats Are Wagging The Coalition Dog

John Roskam 3 May 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

The idea that Scott Morrison’s election policies should be decided according to what he thinks is popular in electorates such as Wentworth in Sydney and Kooyong in Melbourne is like Donald Trump...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review

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Urban Force

Scott Hargreaves and Andrew Bushnell Started 2 May 2019 Ideas and liberty,

The growing vibrancy of Sydney and Melbourne will keep underwriting Australia’s growing prosperity well into the 21st century, provided bureaucrats don’t strangle our cities with red tape. So says...

On A Giant’s Shoulders

Zachary Gorman Started 29 April 2019 Constitution and law, Ideas and liberty,

When one hears about the development of the principles of liberty, the story generally begins with the ancient Greeks who invented philosophy and democracy, and then moves on to the Romans with...

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Looming Crisis in Free Speech

Scott Hargreaves Started 29 April 2019 Ideas and liberty, Publications,

When IPA Research Fellow Matthew Lesh started his series of Free Speech on Campus audits in 2016 the standard response of university administrators and comfortable academics was “Nothing to see...

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Drawing The Line

Morgan Begg Started 29 April 2019 Freedom of speech, Ideas and liberty,

Fed up fans sick of SJWs wrecking their beloved comic books have turned into superheroes valiantly fighting to save a much-loved pop culture institution, argues IPA Research Fellow Morgan Begg...

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The Coalition Can Stand Out By Standing Up For Australians

Daniel Wild 12 April 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

In calling the election yesterday, Scott Morrison insisted there was a clear choice between the Coalition and Labor. Sadly, at their core, there is not as much of a difference between the two...

Originally appeared in The Australian

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The Liberals Tax Themselves Out Of Office

John Roskam 5 April 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

If it had spent its 5½ years in government delivering budgets like the one on Tuesday, the Coalition wouldn’t be in the position it’s in. The likelihood is the Coalition will lose next...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review

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Selling Out The Voters

Daniel Wild 29 March 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

The famous American author Mark Twain is rumoured to have once said ‘If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.’ The year 2016, though, was supposed to be the year where voting did...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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Let’s Not Forfeit Our Own Freedoms In The Rush To Silence Terrorists

Gideon Rozner 29 March 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

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...

Originally appeared in Sydney Morning Herald

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The Swan River colony and the birth of Australian liberalism

Zachary Gorman 27 March 2019 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

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...

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Attacks On Our Freedoms Should Not Be Met With Further Attacks On Our Freedoms

Gideon Rozner 19 March 2019 Freedom of speech, Ideas and liberty,

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...

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