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HomeRESEARCH AREASPlanning and Housing

Planning and Housing

Owning your own home has long been the Australian dream, so how to make sure people can achieve it? Here you will find the IPA's work on housing and planning regulations and reform
Finance and Economics
Tunnel Vision

Tunnel Vision

Scott Hargreaves and Daniel Wild Started 7 July 2020 Finance and economics, Government services,

Victoria’s infrastructure boom is being driven without regard to value, need or the inevitable fiscal reckoning

Finance and Economics
Super Doesn’t Add Up

Super Doesn’t Add Up

Cian Hussey Started 19 December 2019 Finance and economics, Planning and housing,

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...

Parliamentary Research Briefs
An Economic Policy Agenda For Mainstream Australia

An Economic Policy Agenda For Mainstream Australia

Daniel Wild and Andrew Bushnell 3 June 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

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...

Opinion
The Turnbull Government Is Punishing The Poor

The Turnbull Government Is Punishing The Poor

Gideon Rozner 30 November 2017 Ipa today, Opinion,

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...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Opinion
Red Tape Is Keeping Your Kids Out Of The Housing Market

Red Tape Is Keeping Your Kids Out Of The Housing Market

Simon Breheny 7 November 2017 Ipa today, Opinion,

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...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
Planning and Housing
Trumping Architecture

Trumping Architecture

Darcy Allen Started 19 April 2017 Planning and housing, Red tape,

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...

Media Releases
IPA: Construction Costs In Melbourne Sky High

IPA: Construction Costs In Melbourne Sky High

Gideon Rozner 3 February 2017 Finance and economics, Media releases,

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...

Research Papers
The Impact of the Prohibitive Cost of Building in Victoria

The Impact of the Prohibitive Cost of Building in Victoria

Gideon Rozner 3 February 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

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...

Media Releases
Construction Industry Legislation Passage A Great Result

Construction Industry Legislation Passage A Great Result

Brett Hogan 30 November 2016 Media releases, Planning and housing,

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...

Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Creative Destruction

Creative Destruction

Stuart Eaton Started 24 November 2016 Ideas and liberty, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

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...

Research Papers
What Politicians Need To Know About Negative Gearing

What Politicians Need To Know About Negative Gearing

Sinclair Davidson 20 February 2016 Finance and economics, Planning and housing,

• 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...

Lessons From Private Cities

Lessons From Private Cities

Darcy Allen Started 10 December 2015 Innovation and entrepreneurship, Planning and housing,

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

Tim Wilson Started 10 May 2015 Constitution and law, Ideas and liberty,

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...

Planning and Housing
Real Property Rights

Real Property Rights

John Humphreys Started 5 December 2012 Finance and economics, Planning and housing,

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...

Western Civilisation
Class in America

Class in America

Tim Wilson Started 13 August 2012 Faith and society, Planning and housing,

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...

Government Services
Correcting The Infrastructure Deficit

Correcting The Infrastructure Deficit

Richard Allsop Started 17 April 2012 Government services, Nanny state,

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...

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Lockdowns Hit Low-Income Australians Hardest
Lockdowns Hit Low-Income Australians Hardest

New research released today by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has found that the bottom fifth of income earners saw over half a million jobs disappear because of lockdowns...

Constitutional Ban On Fracking Autocratic, Illiberal and Undemocratic
Constitutional Ban On Fracking Autocratic, Illiberal and Undemocratic

The state government’s attempt to impose a constitutional ban on fracking is an unprecedented attack on democracy. No policy restriction like this exists in the Victorian constitution. Never...

Government And Little People: The Democratic Divide In Danandrewstan
Government And Little People: The Democratic Divide In Danandrewstan

The disconnect between the protected public sector and mainstream Victorians was perfectly encapsulated by the Secretary of the Department of Treasury and Finance, David Martine, last week...

Spectator Australia TV | CounterCulture Ep 1 | Welcome To The Most ANTI WOKE Show On The Internet
Spectator Australia TV | CounterCulture Ep 1 | Welcome To The Most ANTI WOKE Show On The Internet

    Welcome to the BRAVEST, BOLDEST, most ANTI WOKE show on the internet! 💪🏼 📺 | CounterCulture Episode 1 – Spectator Australia TV Are you sick of the woke, luvvie-infested...

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