10 August 2022
Submission To The Senate Standing Committees On Environment And Communications Inquiry Into The Climate Change Bill 2022 And The Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022
LABOR NET ZERO BILL TO INVITE ENVRONMENTAL LAWFARE AND CRIPPLE REGIONAL AUSTRALIA Dear Secretariat, The Institute of Public Affairs appreciates the opportunity to make a submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications inquiry into the Climate Change (2022) Bill and Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022. These Bills seek to legislate, among other matters, a reduction to
20 July 2020
EPBC Act Review: Jobs Win Over Litigious Green Activists
“The recommendations of the interim report of the Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) puts mainstream Australians ahead of inner-city green groups,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research at the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. “The interim report’s rejection of adding a climate change trigger to the EPBC Act
13 April 2020
Coral Catastrophes Imagined
Exactly one year ago yesterday,* I was getting off a train in Proserpine, looking to pickup a hire car to drive to Bowen. I wanted to know if the coral there was all dead, or not. Bowen is a coastal town in North Queensland, not far from Abbott Point that is the coal terminal for the controversial Adani coal mine.
8 April 2020
Cut Environmental Red Tape For Australia’s Jobs
Kurt Wallace explains how environmental activists are exploiting a special legal privilege which has put over $65 billion of investment and thousands of Australian jobs at risk. Read the full report, Section 487: How Activists Use Red Tape To Stop Development And Jobs (2020 Update), here.
10 March 2020
Section 487: How Activists Use Red Tape To Stop Development And Jobs (2020 Update)
Legal activism by environmental groups has put $65 billion of investment at risk in Australia by holding major projects up in court for a cumulative total of 10,100 days (28 years) since the year 2000. This legal activism has been enabled by Section 487 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act which allows environmental groups to challenge project
6 March 2020
Green Activism Puts $65 Billion Of Investment At Risk
“A small group of green activists are using a special legal privilege to delay and disrupt $65 billion of investment, which is disproportionately damaging regional Australia,” said Kurt Wallace, Research Fellow with the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. A new report from the Institute of Public Affairs, Section 487: How activists use red tape to stop
21 May 2019
Robots Recreating Past Temperatures – Are Best to Avoid Australian Data
AT an artificial intelligence (AI) conference in New York recently, Sean Gourley explained Wiener’s Law: automation will routinely tidy up ordinary messes but will occasionally create an extraordinary mess – that so mimics what could have been, that the line between what is real, and what is fake, becomes impossible to decipher, even by the experts. AI research over the
12 April 2018
Three Steps To Reducing Red Tape For Farmers
Red tape is destroying farming communities, yet the best the Turnbull government can do is launch another review. At end of March, the government announced it would undertake a review into the red tape imposed on farmers by federal environmental regulation. But this review, like most others, will end up providing a massive pay day for the bureaucrats who run
2 February 2018
The Extraordinary Resilience Of Great Barrier Reef Corals, And Problems With Policy Science
The following is an excerpt from Peter Ridd’s chapter in Climate Change: The Facts 2017, published by the IPA in 2017. :A PDF of the full chapter is available here, and the book can be purchased here. The Great Barrier Reef is often used to show the imminent crisis we are supposedly facing from climate change. It is photogenic, the
1 February 2018
Ideas For Experts On Expertise Examining The Crisis Of Expertise
When British MP Michael Gove said “The people of this country have had enough of experts” he electrified the pro-Brexit voters and sent ripples of horror through the global club of those who advise decision-makers and opine on matters of fact and of policy. One type of reaction to Gove’s incendiary comment I saw at the Mercatus Centre at George
