Private Sector Smashed While Bureaucrats Flourish In Lockdown
More than 604,000 private sector jobs have been destroyed since lockdowns were introduced in March while 14,000 jobs have been added to the public sector according to an analysis of…
Checked Out: When Activism Quarantines Common Sense
If you want to know what is going wrong in Victoria, all you need do is look at a job being advertised on Seek by the state’s Department of Justice…
Originally appeared in The Australian
We’re Not All In This Together
As Victoria is plunged back into lockdowns, with those in greater Melbourne facing unprecedented restrictions on their every move, the difference between the two Australias has never been so...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Melbourne’s Slide Into Covid Dystopia
A couple are watching their child play in a playground. They are fined by the police. They are further than five kilometres from their home. A man leaves his home…
Originally appeared in Spiked
The Economic Crisis Is Still To Come
It is pretty clear what Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews wants: the overwhelming majority of Victorians to remain in their homes for, at least, 23 hours a day. Go out for…
Originally appeared in The Age
Stage 4 A $3.17 Billion Hit Per Week To The Victorian Economy
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has estimated that Stage 4 restrictions imposed by the Victorian Government will hit Gross State Product by $3.17 billion per week….
No Excuse For Shutting Parliament In The Digital Age
There has never been a time since the end of World War II when it has been more important to scrutinise government and hold politicians to account. There are monumental…
Originally appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald
How Coronavirus Is Killing Small Business – And Threatening Our Values
The heart of the Australian way of life is under threat with small businesses fighting for survival as lockdown restrictions continue. The crisis has hastened the ongoing decline of...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
‘Eliminating’ The Virus Is Suppressing Truth
Recent calls for an ‘elimination strategy’ to defeat the coronavirus pandemic are misguided, and may not even work. Why? Because pursuing elimination would mean longer and harder lockdowns. That...
Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
11.7% The Real Unemployment Rate: IPA
Although the official unemployment rate is 7.4%, analysis by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs estimates that the real unemployment rate, including those who have on...
Déjà Vu In Dan Andrewstan
“For those of us who are old enough to remember it is starting to feel like 1990 has come again,” James Campbell, the National Political Editor of the Herald Sun, wrote this…
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
“Around 1.6 Million Businesses Have Seen Their Revenue Decline”
A daily email by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, providing the latest economic data and policy measures for journalists, commentators and IPA members. Daily IPA...