A Future Atlas of Dystopia
This article from the Spring 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Director of Policy, Gideon Rozner. I had heard anti-woke novelist Lionel Shriver interviewed many times, but never...
Send out the Clowns
This book review from the Winter 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Research Fellow, Cian Hussey. According to a 2019 election study published by the Australian National University...
Religious Worship Must Be Treated Equally Under Lockdowns
“People of faith in Victoria may not be able to attend religious services for any religious day of significance in 2020 under Daniel Andrews’ Roadmap,” said Dara Macdonald, Research Fellow at the...
A Day At The ABC
The following is a sneak peek into a day in the life of an intern at the ABC, based on content that has been published either by the ABC or the media about ABC staff. Congratulations! You have...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Identity Politics Will Destroy The Arts
When Australia’s most generous musical theatre scholarship, the Rob Guest Endowment, recently published the names of thirty semi-finalists who were in the running to win a $50,000 scholarship...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Where Were You When Democracy Ended?
When future generations ask when did Australians gave up on democracy and freedom, the answer will be 18 September 2020; the date when the Andrews government in Victoria passed laws which contain...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
An Old Book and Modern Dilemmas
This article from the Winter 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Campus Coordinator, Luca Rossi. At a time when mobs are tearing down statues and peaceful protests give way to...
Stand up for Yourself
This article from the Winter 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by IPA Research Fellow, Peter Gregory. One of Renee Gorman’s first acts as National Manager of Generation Liberty was to send...
Why I Was Right About Victoria’s Police State
At the beginning of April, I wrote in these pages that Labor Premier Daniel Andrews, in response to COVID-19, had created a “police state” in Victoria. The column ran with the...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Please Welcome Victoria’s First Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Victorian Government last week decided to announce the appointment of the first Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner, Dr Niki...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
The Danger Of Following The Experts
People should be wary of politicians justifying their actions in terms of “following the experts.” Victorians are learning that lesson in the most brutal way possible. Everything the Victorian...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Getting It All Arts-About
At a time when Australia has fallen into its first recession in 30 years, you would hope that the Federal government would be spending the public’s money wisely and exercising some vigilance on...
Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
Covid Totalitarianism
The actions of Victoria Police in the egregious arrest of Ballarat mother Zoe Buhler for posting about an anti-lockdown protest on social media is a graphic representation of Victoria’s slide into...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
The Rise Of The Bureaucrats
Victorians seem to have accepted the need for their extended Covid lockdown, which has been the longest and harshest anywhere in the developed world. A Roy Morgan poll conducted by SMS across 8-9...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia Magazine
Australia’s Violent Enforcement Of Lockdowns Sparks Memories of the Eureka Rebellion
This article was coauthored by Mark Hornshaw, lecturer in Economics, Entrepreneurship and Management at The University of Notre Dame Australia. It originally ran on the website for the Foundation...
Originally appeared in Foundation for Economic Education
Dan’s Debacle Shows Why Democracy Matters
The debacle that is the response of Australia’s state governments to the coronavirus pandemic has provoked claims such as “the federation is broken” and “the PM must do...
COVID Dystopia Comes To Melbourne
It was the image that shocked Australia and soon went global. A pregnant woman, handcuffed in her own kitchen, in front of her children, as police officers seized every computer, tablet and cell...
Living In Trumpland
If Donald Trump was looking a bit wobbly in the last few months, he certainly isn’t anymore. Not after the triumph of political communication that was the Republican National Convention last week...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia