9 May 2022
IPA Announces Successor To John Roskam
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Public Affairs, Geoff Hone, has today announced that Scott Hargreaves has been appointed Executive Director of the IPA, to take over from John Roskam on 1 July 2022. “Scott has been a member of the IPA since 1989 and in 2015 he joined the staff. As editor of the
17 November 2021
John Roskam To End His Term As Executive Director Of The IPA
John Roskam, the Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, announced today to IPA members that after 17 years he will conclude his term as Executive Director in June 2022 and will take up a position as Senior Fellow at the IPA. “It has been an honour to have been entrusted with the leadership of the IPA that for
4 October 2018
IPA Welcomes Comments By Wayne Swan
John Roskam, Executive Director of the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs today welcomed comments by ALP Federal President, Wayne Swan about the role of the IPA in public debate. As reported in The Guardian Australia, Mr Swan said: “…rightwing thinktanks, including the Institute of Public Affairs, “backed up by their friends in the rightwing press” have
12 September 2018
Episode 3 – Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights centres around the doomed relationship of its two main characters – Heathcliff, the adopted son of wealthy landowner Mr Earnshaw, and Earnshaw’s daughter Catherine. It is a tale of love and obsession – and it is often violent. Emily Bronte presents a picture of a series of relationships all destined to end in destruction. In this episode, John and
29 August 2018
Episode 2 – The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Leopard is set in Sicily in the 1860s at the time of the unification of the Italian states and in the midst of sweeping political and social upheaval. The book centres on a Sicilian nobleman, Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, and his family. A central theme of the novel is how individuals and societies respond to change and it
23 February 2018
Malcolm Turnbull’s Sex Ban Signals All The Wrong Virtues
Before Malcolm Turnbull prohibited his ministers from having sexual relations with their staff, there’s a few dozen things he should have banned first. For example, he could have banned ministers wasting taxpayers’ money. That way we wouldn’t be spending $50 billion on submarines that won’t be operational for 30 years. Or he could have banned ministers breaking their election promises by introducing
9 February 2018
Why Darkest Hour, A Film About Winston Churchill, Is An International Success
US founding father John Adams was right when he said “facts are stubborn things”. Individuals in history are stubborn things too. Academic historians at modern-day universities might believe and inculcate in their students the idea that the past is the product only of the inexorable forces of class, race and gender. However, the book-reading and film-going public know better. Which is
