12 January 2023
Pensioner Power Beats Migrant Workers
This article was originally published in the Australian Financial Review. In this article, John Roskam contextualises and disseminates the findings of the IPA’s research into Australia’s worker shortage crisis and how that affects Australia’s economic freedom and prosperity. The IPA has been dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic freedom through research and analysis since its inception in
3 December 2022
David Littleproud Channelling National Party Forefather Arthur Fadden By Opposing Voice To Parliament’s Bureaucratic Overreach
This article was originally published on Sky News Australia. In this article, Morgan Begg contextualises and disseminates the findings of the IPA’s research into Australia’s constitution, conducted as part of the IPA’s analysis of the Voice to Parliament. The IPA has been researching the consequences a potential Voice to Parliament would have to the political freedom, liberty, and equality of
17 November 2022
Suss-tainable Cuisine
This article was originally published in The Spectator Australia on or about 17 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. Cover by Sarah Dudley, illustration by Ben Davis Now Marxism is on the menu
3 November 2022
Dutton Plays The Culture Card
This article was originally published in The Australian Financial Review on or about 3 November 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. Even Dutton’s own side warn him off “populist” issues. But there is not
28 October 2022
IPA Welcomes Peter Dutton’s Culture War Call In Budget Reply
Dr Bella d’Abrera, Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs, has today welcomed Peter Dutton’s Budget Reply speech and his statements on Australia’s culture, and what children are taught in schools. “Peter Dutton has declared he will move the Liberals back into the political mainstream and that he will fight for the values
10 October 2022
Unfair Dinkum History
This article was originally published in The Spectator Australia. In this article, Dr Bella d’Abrera contextualises and disseminates the findings of the IPA’s research into the national curriculum, conducted as part of the IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Program. The Foundations of Western Civilisation Program was established in 2011 to defend and extend Australians’ understanding of the influential, historical role
9 May 2019
Labor’s Push For A National Gender Centre Is Informed By Radical Academic Philosophies And Not Facts
Should it be elected on the weekend of May 18, the Labor Party has promised to offer free sex change procedures, set up a tax payer-funded National Gender Centre, and appoint a new Commissioner for Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status Issues. This is completely in keeping with the party’s fixation with social justice. To be clear, when the
26 April 2018
Never Forget: We Fought For Freedom
The thousands of Australians who enlisted to fight in the First World War did so because they believed that their liberties were under threat. They fought for freedom and democracy. However, Richard Flanagan, the Tasmanian novelist and essayist, has said that Anzac Day is a ‘dangerous myth’ and a ‘cult’, and that the government should not spend $100 million on
25 April 2018
The New Assault On Anzac Day
For the last few years, there has been a growing annual assault against Australian identity. It starts off in early January, a rude awakening from New Year’s celebrations, and rises to a crescendo of shrill hyperbole by Australia Day. Despite the vast majority of Australians loving our great country and embracing Australia Day, the cries of the anti-Australians are having
14 April 2018
The Idiocy Of Cultural Competence
A conference held last week by the University of Sydney’s taxpayer-funded National Centre for Cultural Competence has proven once and for all that Australian universities are not only hotbeds of identity politics, but that they are also imposing this post-modernist madness on society at large, and at society’s expense. Entitled ‘Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector: Dilemmas, Policies and
