10 August 2023
Big Business Has Lost Its Voice In Debate On Economic Reform
CEOs today are more likely to adopt social causes than policy agendas and have opinions more in common with a typical cadet journalist at the ABC than with Milton Friedman. Here’s a question. If you were Matt Comyn, the Commonwealth Bank chief executive who’s just announced a record profit of $10 billion, and whose pay has gone up 50 per cent
5 July 2023
Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: Woke Corporates Dividing Australia
See below for show notes: Former Prime Minister and Distinguished Fellow of the IPA, Tony Abbott, and the IPA’s Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild discuss how big woke corporations are dividing Australia as a result of their massive funding campaign for the Voice to parliament. Tony also shares his insights on the future of the centre-right, and draws on the
23 January 2023
Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: Australia Day Is A Day Of Celebration
See below for show notes: Former Prime Minister and IPA Distinguished Fellow Tony Abbott and IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild discuss Tony’s future in politics, the woke big businesses which want to cancel Australia Day, and the big tech censorship surrounding the Voice to Parliament. Find out more at australia.ipa.org.au
3 June 2022
Labor, Big Business Mugged By Reality On Net Zero
“An energy crisis of chronic supply shortages and explosive price hikes is gripping the country as a direct and immediate result of net zero,” said Dr Kevin You, Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. New Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen on Thursday refused the opportunity to rule out appealing to Australia’s coal-fired power generators to help
7 June 2019
Business Needs To ‘Mind The Gap’
Anyone who’s ever been to London and travelled on the Underground will know the words “mind the gap”.The phrase, together with concepts such as parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, freedom of speech and freedom of the press is one of Britain’s great contributions to the world. “Mind the gap” is a useful description for one of the reasons why
7 April 2017
Business Bosses Hide Out In The Qantas Chairman’s Lounge
Liberal Party pollster, Mark Textor recently gave a penetrating insight into the hopelessness of the policy advocacy provided by many of Australia’s business leaders. Business leaders, he said, had “deskilled” themselves when it came to communicating to the community, and had “retreated further into their bubble”. According to Textor representatives of big government, big business, and big unions “all meet
