Tunnel Vision
Victoria’s infrastructure boom is being driven without regard to value, need or the inevitable fiscal reckoning
Victoria’s infrastructure boom is being driven without regard to value, need or the inevitable fiscal reckoning
This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by then IPA Campus Coordinator for Generation Liberty Program (now a Research Fellow), Cian Hussey. Young Australians are an...
The 2019 election result was driven by mainstream Australians rejecting an agenda to fundamentally transform Australia. The government now has an opportunity to build and reinforce institutional...
American lawyer and politician Gideon J Tucker once observed that ‘no man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session’. Given the ceaseless rapacity of Australian...
Want to know why you, your kids, or your grandkids find it so hard to buy their own home in Sydney? Because there’s a housing supply crisis. And one key reason why has been exposed this week: red...
This article first appeared in the April 2017 edition of the IPA Review and is written by IPA Adjunct Fellow Darcy Allen. A provocative speaker at the 2016 World Architecture Festival has thrown...
Construction and labour costs in Melbourne are among the highest in the world, second only to places like New York, according to a new research paper The Impact of the prohibitive cost of building...
On Wednesday 30 November 2016, the Australian Senate passed the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill. The main object of the Bill is to: “…provide an...
The passage through Parliament of a Bill to reconstitute the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is a great result for employers and workers in the construction industry, as...
This article first appeared in the November 2016 Edition of the IPA Review and is written by Engagement manager for the IPA, Stuart Eaton. For years, we have heard about the incredible population...
• Low and middle income earners benefit most from negative gearing. To abolish negative gearing would make investment more difficult for low and middle income earners. • 80 per cent of Australians...
Cities are complex creatures in constant flux. Some cities grow and thrive, while others wither and die. A tussle between top-down regulation (by governments) and bottom-up decision-making (by...
Property rights are human rights, but in order to advance them, we need to anchor them as moral and just. Throughout the second half of 2014, a national consultation looked at the human rights...
This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Founder and president of the Human Capital Project, John Humphreys. There has never been a successful society that was not based...
This article from the August 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of Climate Policy and the Free Trade and Intellectual Property units at the IPA, Tim Wilson. One of the great strengths...
This article from the April 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. It seems we used to get a lot more infrastructure before we had the word...