These days, whenever a local council comes up with a lunatic idea that bewilders ordinary Australians, you can be guaranteed that there is a university behind it. Last month the Herald Sun...
Mark Bauerlein is Professor of English at Emory University, and has been teaching at Emory since 1989. He has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post...
The ideology of identity politics, the theory that individuals should be judged not on their personal merits but according to their gender, race, and class, has escaped from university lecture...
Morgan Begg reviews Keeping the Faith: The Battle for Australian Catholicism, by Fr James Grant. (this article first appeared in the May 2018 edition of the IPA Review. A PDF can be downloaded...
Karl Marx’s ideas have led to the death of 100 million people, extreme poverty, immense suffering, and relentless oppression – and you can’t even say he’s a nice guy. Marx...
The thousands of Australians who enlisted to fight in the First World War did so because they believed that their liberties were under threat. They fought for freedom and democracy. However...
For the last few years, there has been a growing annual assault against Australian identity. It starts off in early January, a rude awakening from New Year’s celebrations, and rises to a crescendo...
Emily Thornberry’s call for Theresa May to apologise for Britain’s “historic wrongs” has caused bemusement here in Australia and doubtless other Commonwealth countries. What exactly is it that the...
The Queensland Teachers’ Union decision to decorate every classroom in the state with the Eureka Stockade flag is blatant indoctrination and propagandising, which has no place in our public school...
In 2009 Dennis Prager launched PragerU which creates concise 5 minute videos on complex political, economic, social and cultural issues. PragerU stands by its claim that viewing all of its videos...
Monash University, the first Australian university to introduce trigger warnings, appropriately begins their “#CHANGEIT” advertising campaign by declaring “SOME OF YOU MAY FIND THE FOLLOWING...
Professor Robert Tombs speaks to IPA members on the subject ‘Why Western Civilisation is Our Future’, on his tour of Australia with the IPA.
Dear IPA Members For my note this week I thought I might do something a little bit different and tell you about the rock concert I went to in Melbourne last night. It wasn’t actually a rock...
The Prime Minister’s recent puritanical edicts regarding relationships between ministers and their staff do not have roots in conservative Christianity, but in progressive Leftism which has an...
Rowan Dean, author of the two new books The Best of The Spectator Australia and Corkscrewed, joined The Young IPA Podcast to talk about the role of The Spectator Australia in the modern media...
US founding father John Adams was right when he said “facts are stubborn things”. Individuals in history are stubborn things too. Academic historians at modern-day universities might...
If you were a tourist attending the Australian Open, and you happened to have been perusing the papers in between sets, you would be forgiven for thinking that the entire country is suffering from...
The overwhelming majority of Australians are not only proud to be Australian, but they are also proud of their history. Furthermore, the majority of Australians want to continue celebrating...
