IPA Keeping In Touch – 24 March 2020
Dear IPA Members I am writing to you because these are very difficult times and big decisions affecting our lives and the future of the country are being made almost…
Virus Crisis Signals End Of The Road For The ‘Lollipop Economy’
However this crisis ends, the era of Australia’s ‘lollipop economy’ is over. Not in our lifetime will a worker ever again be paid $180,000 a year to stand and hold a…
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Quantitative Easing: A Desperate Move With No Clear End Game
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to engage in quantitative easing is a desperate move with no clear end game. While QE has been precipitated by the public health response to coronavirus...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Cut Red Tape To Save Jobs
“Regulations that stop Australians keeping their job and their businesses open must be scrapped,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research with the free market think tank the Institute...
The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 55: The Patient Needs to Survive the Cure
The coronavirus pandemic has turned the world upside down. Whilst governments all around the world scramble for solutions, what are the policy affects for citizens? (3:25-16:10). Different...
The Very Last Thing We Need Is Radical Reserve Bank Action
The Reserve Bank of Australia has used the coronavirus threat to accelerate its move toward radical monetary policy. To prevent further distortions to the Australian economy the government should...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Stimulus Package A Missed Opportunity
“By focusing on cash handouts and short-term measures, the stimulus is a missed opportunity to address Australia’s structural economic problems through lower taxes, less red tape, and energy...
Some Stimulating Ideas
Rather than engaging in a shortsighted and reckless cash splash, the federal government should seize the opportunity created by the economic fallout from the coronavirus to cut red tape...
Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
Don’t Bail Out Bloated Unis
Australian universities should not get a cent of any federal government bailout program or stimulus package in the wake of the coronavirus. Over the past decade universities have privatised...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review