Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the announcement that the Productivity Commission will lead a 12-month review to focus on streamlining regulation in the...
Australia is starting to see bi-partisan economic leadership, with both the federal Coalition government and the WA state Labor government cutting red tape and taxes to unleash prosperity, as...
Sometimes political parties create their own narratives, and sometimes those narratives are created for them. Right at the moment Bill Shorten’s Labor Party is doing a good job at creating...
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today released new analysis based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, which finds that almost half of Australian workers would be...
The hearings of the banking royal commission have, at different times, resembled a cross between the Soviet show trials of the 1930s and the American TV show L.A. Law of the 1980s. All those...
Gideon Rozner explains how British Columbia deregulated its way to a better economy and higher individual wages, and how Australia could do the same
When companies get religion on the “social purpose” of business, they are only going to end up looking bad. If business isn’t careful it will go the way of Christianity. Of...
Red tape is holding back our entrepreneurs and threatening our economic prosperity, new IPA research has found. Nine of Australia’s top ten largest companies were founded before 1925; by contrast...
Red tape and high taxes make it too hard to start a business in Australia. Had business creation continued at pre-GFC levels, there would be 250,000 more businesses in Australia today...
Our new research brief debunks six myths surrounding the Turnbull government’s proposal to cut the company tax rate to 25 per cent from 30 per cent. Australia has a high corporate tax rate...
Australia has experienced 26 years of unbroken economic growth. However, this aggregate figure masks stagnant wages growth and a deterioration in the living standards of many in the Australian...
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today released a new landmark report, Barriers to Prosperity: Red Tape and the Regulatory State in Australia, authored by IPA research...
