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Research Papers
Evidence Based Policy Research Project: 20 Case Studies

Evidence Based Policy Research Project: 20 Case Studies

Dara Macdonald 20 November 2020 Constitution and law, Ipa today,

Australia’s governments, both state and federal, are failing to undertake best practice policy making. This failure is undermining the quality of public policy and is having a detrimental impact...

Research Papers
Medical Capacity: An Alternative To Lockdowns

Medical Capacity: An Alternative To Lockdowns

Daniel Wild and Asher Judah 30 September 2020 Government services, Ipa today,

The best available domestic and international evidence suggests that lockdowns don’t work. They impose significant social, cultural, humanitarian, and economic costs while at best being of...

Research Papers
Evidence Based Policy Research Project: 20 Case Studies

Evidence Based Policy Research Project: 20 Case Studies

Matthew Lesh 15 November 2019 Constitution and law, Ipa today,

Australia’s governments, both state and federal, are failing to undertake best practice policymaking. This failure is undermining the quality of public policy and is having a detrimental impact on...

Parliamentary Research Briefs
An Economic Policy Agenda For Mainstream Australia

An Economic Policy Agenda For Mainstream Australia

Daniel Wild and Andrew Bushnell 3 June 2019 Finance and economics, Government services,

The 2019 election result was driven by mainstream Australians rejecting an agenda to fundamentally transform Australia. The government now has an opportunity to build and reinforce institutional...

PUBLICATIONS
Loans Are A Wrong And Risky Way To Help Small Business, Mr Treasurer

Loans Are A Wrong And Risky Way To Help Small Business, Mr Treasurer

Daniel Wild 22 November 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

The Federal Government’s proposed $2 billion small business loan scheme is the wrong response to a real problem. The decline of small businesses in Australia presents a substantial policy...

IPA TODAY
Government Snooping Will Not Stop At The Banks

Government Snooping Will Not Stop At The Banks

John Roskam 10 August 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Here’s an idea. In order to improve the confidence of the public in democracy, the federal government should embed ‘Taxpayer Compliance Officers’ in cabinet and the Expenditure...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Opinion
Senate Inquiry into Business Council commitments

Senate Inquiry into Business Council commitments

Simon Breheny and Daniel Wild 24 April 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

IPA Director of Policy, Simon Breheny, and Research Fellow, Daniel Wild, today appeared before the Senate Economics Committee inquiry into the commitments made by the Business Council of Australia...

Submissions
Inquiry into the ‘Commitment to the Senate’ issued by the Business Council of Australia

Inquiry into the ‘Commitment to the Senate’ issued by the Business Council of Australia

Simon Breheny and Daniel Wild 24 April 2018 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Below is an extract from the IPAs submission to the Senate Economics References Committee This Senate Inquiry is highly questionable. It refers to an undertaking made by private companies in...

IPA TODAY
AFL Acts As Cheerleaders For Labor’s Left Agenda

AFL Acts As Cheerleaders For Labor’s Left Agenda

Andrew Bushnell 16 April 2018 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

The decision by the Victorian Government to spend $225 million of taxpayers’ money on renovating Etihad Stadium is corporate cronyism of the highest order, and inseparable from the...

Originally appeared in Herald Sun
PUBLICATIONS
Three Steps To Reducing Red Tape For Farmers

Three Steps To Reducing Red Tape For Farmers

Daniel Wild 12 April 2018 Environment and agriculture, Ipa today,

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...

Originally appeared in The Land
PUBLICATIONS
Stick To Being The Prophets Of Profit

Stick To Being The Prophets Of Profit

John Roskam 9 March 2018 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

When companies get religion on the “social purpose” of business, they are only going to end up looking bad. If business isn’t careful it will go the way of Christianity. Of...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
IPA TODAY
Leaving Us Hungry

Leaving Us Hungry

Simon Breheny 8 March 2018 Ipa today, Nanny state,

Food, nutrition and human behaviour are far too complex to be regulated with a star rating system Mandatory food labelling is a bureaucrat’s dream and a consumer’s nightmare. Just take...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
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Constitutional Ban On Fracking Autocratic, Illiberal and Undemocratic
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The state government’s attempt to impose a constitutional ban on fracking is an unprecedented attack on democracy. No policy restriction like this exists in the Victorian constitution. Never...

Government And Little People: The Democratic Divide In Danandrewstan
Government And Little People: The Democratic Divide In Danandrewstan

The disconnect between the protected public sector and mainstream Victorians was perfectly encapsulated by the Secretary of the Department of Treasury and Finance, David Martine, last week...

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