Finally, the 2020 Olympics are finally about to kick off. So why does it already feel so underwhelming? After 15 months of government-imposed misery the Olympic should be just what…
Have you noticed the latest scare tactic pushed in the Victorian press conferences? After 16 months of waiting for the dreaded ‘new case’ number to drop each morning, we now…
“We need to restart our economy. We need to restart our society. We can’t keep Australia under the doona. We need to be able to move ahead.” These were the…
A new diatribe demonstrates how demonising opponents creates a climate hostile to reasoned policy debate, writes IPA Communications Director Evan Mulholland. Marian Wilkinson is described on the inside of her…
Last month, ABC News reported on the results of a survey of 1157 Victorians conducted in September last year. Those results have just been published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, but amid the…
A new poll of 1,015 Australians commissioned by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has found that mainstream Australians overwhelmingly support the values of egalitarianism and equality…
Two things stand out almost immediately when one gets on an early morning train in Melbourne. The first is the abundance of high-vis clothing. The second is the lack of…
In an effort to stem the catastrophic decline in VCE students electing to study Australia’s history in their final two years of schooling, state education experts at the Victorian Curriculum…
A Freedom of Information request from the Institute of Public Affairs finds that an activist advisory group was consulted on every learning area in the proposed new National Curriculum, including…
There’s a neat symmetry between the release this week of the 2021 Intergenerational Report from the Commonwealth Treasury department and the shambles Australia’s response to the coronavirus has become over the last few…
It is estimated that there are fewer than 300 active cases of Covid-19 in Australia. Yet over 12million Australians are currently living under lockdown – more than half the population. This…
Last year Australiawas a Covid-19 success story. Just 30,274 cases and 910 deaths in 26 million people was something to celebrate. But now America and Europe are getting on with…