IPA Review Articles

5 December 2012

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is written by Editor James Paterson and Executive Director of the IPA, John Roskam. One of the most revealing stories in modern Australian politics comes from James Button—a speechwriter for Kevin Rudd for a short time in 2009. Button’s recent and fascinating book, Speechless: A year in my father’s

3 December 2012

This article from the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Editor James Paterson. Attacks on individual freedom in Australia over the past few years have occurred in some unexpected places. Take, for instance, the unprecedented assault on civil liberties we have seen in Australia in recent years. Both the left and right of politics have in the

1 December 2012

Peter Gregory investigates the introduction of school choice in the United Kingdom (this article first appeared in the December 2012 edition of the IPA Review.) For all the criticism it has received, the Cameron government in Britain has undertaken at least one transformative and visionary reform since its inception. That is, the introduction of free schools in the British education system

10 October 2012

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. John Bright’s fame was so high in the middle of the 19th century that early settlers in the village of Morse’s Creek in north eastern Victoria decided to rename the place, Bright. One imagines that few of the town’s current population

10 October 2012

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the North Australia Project at the IPA, John Shipp. The false dichotomy offered in the title of Ian Lowe’s book Bigger or Better: Australia’s population debate hints at the one-sided polemic contained within. Lowe puts a forthright case for ‘stabilising’ Australia’s population at or near current

10 October 2012

This article from the October 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Senator for Victoria and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Fair Competition, Scott Ryan. There is almost a cult amongst readers of political history and biography: those who count down the years until the release of the next volume of Robert Caro’s totemic biography of Lyndon

17 August 2012

This article from the August 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher at the IPA, Peter Gregory. The United States of America. The Land of the Free. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Washington. Jefferson. Lincoln. This is the nation that gave us Sinatra, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, Willie Nelson, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Nirvana, NWA and…um…Britney

17 August 2012

This article from the August 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of Policy at the IPA, Chris Berg. Few recent social science books have arrived with as much acclaim as Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. The book has been repeatedly reviewed and referenced in opinion pieces around the

13 August 2012

This article from the August 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Journalist with ‘The Australian’, Christian Kerr. As the polls plunge and a tide of sleaze threatens the government, Labor has responded with a storm of class war rhetoric unseen in decades. The prime minister has declared the next election will be about ‘whether you stand for the

12 August 2012

This article from the August 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of Policy at the IPA, Chris Berg. Should Nazis have the right to free speech? Adolf Hitler’s Germany, obviously, had no liberty of expression. Must freedom of speech allow for the toleration of an intolerant minority? The question has been answered in different ways in various