7 December 2022
The Left’s Selective Catastrophising
This article was originally published in The Spectator Australia on or about 7 December 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. Catastrophising comes easily to climate change activists. Our new monarch, King Charles III, declared
21 January 2021
Politicised Curriculum Is Why Children Don’t Know About Australia’s Democracy
Nobody should be surprised at the news from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, that when it comes to knowledge of Civics and Citizenship, Australian students know more about pollution, climate change and water shortages than they do about democracy, civic processes and our institutions. In the report, the authors state that the purpose of teaching Civics and Citizenship
30 September 2019
Watering Australia’s Intellectual Deserts
If what happened at RMIT University in Melbourne last week was a one-off event, it could be laughed at as the behaviour of a single rogue academic. But the pity is that the actions of a senior lecturer in mechanical engineering at RMIT University, Hormoz Marzbani, neatly encapsulates the intellectual crisis at Australia’s universities. Our universities now engage in partisan politics
20 September 2019
Our Universities Have Caved In To Lazy Groupthink
In the lead-up to Friday’s Global Climate Strike, enlightening emails have found their way into staff and student university inboxes. These communications are as illuminating as they are disheartening, as they once again reveal the extent to which our institutions of higher education have been captured by ideologically driven activists. The array of carefully crafted messages that have been doing
