IPA Welcomes Free Speech Review, Time For Universities To Act
The free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the Government’s independent review into university freedom of speech undertaken by the Hon Mr Robert French AC...
Let’s Not Forfeit Our Own Freedoms In The Rush To Silence Terrorists
American founding father Benjamin Franklin once wrote: “Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” Since...
Originally appeared in Sydney Morning Herald
Attacks On Our Freedoms Should Not Be Met With Further Attacks On Our Freedoms
The Institute of Public Affairs has today rejected Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s proposal for more government regulation and control of social media and the internet. “Open-ended calls for...
Proposed Religious Freedom Laws Are Dangerous And Counter-Productive
“The Morrison government’s proposed religious discrimination laws will be a ticking time bomb for freedom of belief in Australia,” said Morgan Begg, Research Fellow and author of the Institute...
Free Speech in Decline: IPA Free Speech On Campus Audit 2018
Free expression at Australian universities is slipping even further, according to the Institute of Public Affairs’ Free Speech on Campus Audit 2018. The audit analyses over 190 policies and...
The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 86 with Daniel Wild and Michael Ozias
Theresa May has finally united the Leave and Remain camps…against her. The government announces Robert French will lead an inquiry into freedom of speech at universities and we’re...
The Heavy Hand Of Free Speech
The British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton in a recent speech remarked that modern-day universities are increasingly reverting to the role they played in the Middle Ages. Medieval universities...
IPA Welcomes Robert French-Led Free Speech On Campus Inquiry
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the Government’s announcement that former Chief Justice of Australia Robert French will review freedom of speech at...
UTAS Risk To Freedom Of Expression And Human Rights
The University of Tasmania’s draft behaviour policy is a serious threat to freedom of expression and basic legal rights. The bedrock of university life is the ability to freely explore…
IPA submission to the University of Tasmania’s Draft University Behaviour Policy and Procedure
This submission responds to the University of Tasmania’s Draft University Behaviour Policy and Procedure. This submission raises concern that the proposed policy seriously threatens freedom of...
The Left’s Libricide
Recently, Erik Jensen, founding editor of the Saturday Paper and convener of the Horne Prize for essays, had been so struck by what he considered to be an intolerable amount of...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Two Ideas Of A University – Speech By Matthew Lesh
Two Ideas of a University Speech by Matthew Lesh, Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, to the University Chancellors Council’s Conference on University Governance, Adelaide...