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Western Civilisation has had a profound influence on world history. Shaped by the cultural contributions of the ancient Greek and Roman Empires and Medieval Christian Europe, the West has produced the seminal events of the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Industrial and scientific revolutions, and the development of liberal democracy. Here you will find the IPA's research on Western Civilisation and the lessons we can learn from our past to improve our future.

Faith and Society

Trouble Brewing

Theodora Pantelich Started 15 May 2020 Faith and society, Ideas and liberty,

This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Campus Coordinator, Theodora Pantelich. The number of young people supporting or advocating for socialism has risen...

To Be Released: Captain of the Enlightenment

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PUBLICATIONS

University Of Queensland Takes Action Against Its Own To Curry Favour With China

Bella d'Abrera 12 May 2020 Education and skills, Foreign affairs and trade,

We should all care about the case of 20-year-old Drew Pavlou, not only because of the injustice of a university intimidating its own student but also because it is symptomatic of the crisis of...

Originally appeared in The Australian

PUBLICATIONS

Get Back To Where We Once Belonged

Morgan Begg 8 May 2020 Constitution and law, Ipa today,

‘Want to go to the footy? Download the app.’ tweeted Health Minister Greg Hunt on 2 May, speaking to Australians as if they were unruly children who need to eat their veggies before they get...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

IPA TODAY

Western Lockdowns Are Killing People In The Developing World

Peter Gregory 3 May 2020 Government services, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

There are a million reasons why the economy vs lives meme in relation to relaxing COVID-19 restrictions is a false dichotomy. Here’s another: Western lockdowns are killing people in the developing...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

Government Services

Coronavirus: Scott Morrison Needs to Speak to Hard-hit Young Australians

Janet Albrechtsen 2 May 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

Despite the sweet-sounding idea that we are all in this together, the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis are not being shared anywhere equally. Look at the University of Sydney, where casual...

PUBLICATIONS

Nothing Like Exposing The Twits Of Danandrewstan

Gideon Rozner 1 May 2020 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

As I write this, coronavirus isolation measures are being eased in almost every state and territory in Australia. But in Victoria, Daniel Andrews is refusing to budge on his lockdown, citing...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

PUBLICATIONS

Not A Very Class Act

Bella d'Abrera 24 April 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Despite the health advice consistently provided by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee which says that teachers can and should go back to school, teachers’ unions across the...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

PUBLICATIONS

Stop The World, We Want To Change It!

Andrew Bushnell 23 April 2020 Ipa today, Keeping you in touch,

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic we have been repeatedly told that the only moral position is to defeat the virus at all costs. Any suggestion that the economic effects of keeping everyone in...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

PUBLICATIONS

Media Scrutiny Has Shut Down Too

John Roskam 17 April 2020 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

There’s a fine line between the government protecting people and punishing them. It might be that in the context of the COVID-19 crisis that line is about to be crossed – if it hasn’t...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review

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Imagine, No Magna Carta

Bella d'Abrera 14 April 2020 Constitution and law, Ipa today,

All over the world, millions of people are being subjected by their respective governments to an untested social experiment which is decimating their societies. This experiment involves locking...

IPA TODAY

We Must Ensure Our Liberties Are Returned As Swiftly As They Have Been Taken

Dara Macdonald 10 April 2020 Government services, Ipa today,

On March 30, New South Wales went to bed in a liberal democracy and woke up in a police state as with a stroke of a pen Brad Hazzard signed into law an Orwellian directive. The Public Health...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

PUBLICATIONS

2020 In Historical Perspective – IPA Keeping In Touch – 9 April 2020

Zachary Gorman 9 April 2020 Ipa today, Keeping you in touch,

Dear IPA Members As a historian you tend to be highly conscious of the truism that we are always living through history. As time passes, moments crystallise into the building blocks of the...

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Beautiful One Day, Police State The Next

John Roskam 3 April 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

To control the spread of a dangerous virus that as yet has taken 24 lives in this country, 25 million Australians have been placed under indefinite house arrest, children’s playgrounds are...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review

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Comic Books Are Now A Laughing Stock

Morgan Begg 2 April 2020 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

History will likely say that the comic book industry was sunk by the repressive measures adopted to control the spread of coronavirus. In reality it is the industry’s bizarre obsession with...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

PUBLICATIONS

Australia’s Other Plague: Incestuous ‘Intellectuals’

Daniel Wild 2 April 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Few images better capture the out of touch and incompetent nature of Australia’s self-described elites as three university academics playing word games to describe the economy as “hibernating”...

Originally appeared in Quadrant Online

PUBLICATIONS

We Need Strength To Survive, Not A Shutdown Of Our Economy

Dara Macdonald 31 March 2020 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Australia needs strength to survive the coronavirus, but many policies designed to manage the spread may be counterproductively weakening our social, political and economic systems. Last week...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

PUBLICATIONS

How Localism And Community Spirit Can See Us Through The Corona Crisis

Dara Macdonald 27 March 2020 Ipa today, Keeping you in touch,

Rather than more centralisation of powers with the government and bureaucrats in Canberra, a better approach to managing coronavirus would be through localism underpinned by a shared set of...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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