15 November 2022
Australian Universities Risk Giving The Game Away To China In The Uphill Battle To Defend Our National Security
This article was originally published in The Spectator Australia on or about 15 November 2022 and was written by the author in her capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. We face an ongoing struggle to defend our national security against malicious foreign actors,
12 September 2022
Don’t let your guard down, the Islamist terror threat is as real as ever 21 years on from the 9/11 attacks that shocked the world
This article was originally published in Sky News Australia on or about 12 September 2022 and was written by the author in their capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. As the West is distracted by domestic issues and the rise of Russia and
5 September 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev Was A Socialist Through And Through – Not The Heroic Pro-capitalist He’s Being Painted Out To Be
This article was originally published on Sky News Australia on 5 September 2022 and was written by the author in their capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. Gorbachev has been widely remembered for his promotion of free enterprise and democracy, but not
2 September 2022
Defending Country Worth Fighting For
This article was originally published in The Daily Telegraph. In this article, Paddy O’Leary contextualises and disseminates the findings of the IPA’s research into Australians’ views on national security, conducted as part of the IPA’s Centre for the Australian Way of Life. The IPA’s Centre for the Australian Way of Life aims to research the various ways in which Australia’s
22 August 2022
Blind Western Aggression Against Chinese And Russian Authoritarianism Won’t Win The Clash Of Civilisations
If we really want to convince the world to take our side, we have to start by highlighting the main virtue of the Anglosphere – that despite all our faults we simply have more to offer than authoritarian dictatorships. Plenty has been said about the threats to US ascendency by the rising superpowers of Russia and China. This column presents
9 August 2022
The Big Winner Is China
The ongoing net zero push for renewable energy has one major beneficiary – and it is not Australia Last month, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, addressing the media at the Pacific Islands Forum, said the policy of net zero emissions by 2050 and renewable energy were “Australia’s jobs opportunity”. While the PM’s visit to Fiji was valuable to reset Australia’s neglected
3 May 2022
Australians Won’t Pay For Net Zero
“That a significant majority of Australians have again been found willing to pay little or nothing to cut emissions reinforces that support for net zero in the community is shallow and weak,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research at the Institute of Public Affairs. A survey conducted by Resolve Strategic for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age released today
26 March 2022
Poll: Voters Say Don’t Hold Australia Back
New polling data released today by the Institute of Public Affairs has found a significant majority of Australians believe it is critical for Australia be able to manufacture its own vital supplies amidst China’s growing assertiveness in our region and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The polling data, collected by Dynata, found 70% of respondents believed that it was very important
24 March 2022
Net Zero Or National Defence? Morrison Must Choose
Former cosmopolitan elite-in-chief, Adrian Blundell-Wignall (a former head of the OECD) let the mask slip earlier this month when he said: ‘Here is the simple truth. It doesn’t matter where the fossil is burned. The carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere has exactly the same effect on climate change, regardless of whether it is burned here or abroad.’ Putting aside
3 March 2022
Home-grown Power Is A National Security Imperative
The horrifying conflict in Ukraine and the geopolitical ramifications it has exposed mean Australia must immediately reassess how it secures its place in the world. First and foremost, Australia has no choice but to remove the green-coloured wool from its eyes and face the fact that energy security is national security. The war in Ukraine has brutally sheeted this reality
