Indigenous Affairs

6 April 2023

Dear Ms Inman Grant Ensuring the Voice to Parliament Referendum debate is free and fair The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) was founded in 1943 as a non-profit educational research organisation with the objective of furthering the individual, social, political, and economic freedom of the Australian people, and maintaining and enhancing the Australian way of life. A central strand of

12 June 2022

Indigenous Australians are Australians Voice. Treaty. Truth. These are the words used to describe the Australian Labor Party’s (ALP) main policy for Indigenous Australians. Now that the ALP has claimed power in Canberra after nine years in opposition, it is time to consider what these words mean genuinely. The Labor party policy platform notes a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament is

12 April 2022

“Holding a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament on the anniversary of the 1967 referendum is a backwards and retrograde step which will destroy the progress to racial equality started in 1967 and divide Australians by race forever,” said Morgan Begg, Director of the Legal Rights Program at the Institute of Public Affairs. It was reported today that a

23 March 2021

The Institute of Public Affairs is committed to undertaking research to defend and extend the Australian way of life and mainstream Australian values. Central to the Australian way of life is the idea that all Australians are equal in the eyes of the law and that every Australian shares an equal voice in the governance of the nation. This letter,

21 February 2020

The utter failure of the federal Coalition, after almost seven years in government, to do anything to arrest the left-wing political activism of Australia’s institutions of government and administration was on full display last week. It’s one thing (as bad as it might be) for the ABC, or the Canberra public service, or the country’s taxpayer-funded universities to indulge themselves

14 February 2020

This week’s decision in the High Court to invent a new category of personhood for people on the basis of their race is a devastating blow to the movement for the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. On Tuesday the High Court handed down a decision in relation to how non-citizens who identified as Aboriginal would be treated under the Constitution,

13 February 2020

The High Court’s decision on Tuesday to exempt an entire group of people based on their racial identity from the operation of national migration laws is the most radical instance of judicial activism in Australian judicial history. The High Court’s decision concerned two individuals who were not born in Australia and were not Australian citizens but who claim biological descent

20 January 2020

Australians do love Australia day. It turns out we do want to celebrate Australia day on the 26th of January because Australians love being free! Australia day is a chance for us to come together and celebrate. Watch our latest video.

20 January 2020

This year, the bushfires have well and truly dulled the usual noise around Australia Day. There has been a notable absence of activist voices either calling to change the date of Australia Day or stop celebrating it altogether. The extraordinary response of the Australian public to the devastation has brought to the fore a strong sense of community, a sense

31 October 2019

Several prominent Australians have spoken out against the proposal for an indigenous voice to parliament, in a new video by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Senator James McGrath, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Dr Anthony Dillon, and Lorraine Finlay warned against a constitutional amendment that would divide Australians by race. “I’m a Queensland senator. I don’t want indigenous