5 July 2023
Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: Woke Corporates Dividing Australia
See below for show notes: Former Prime Minister and Distinguished Fellow of the IPA, Tony Abbott, and the IPA’s Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild discuss how big woke corporations are dividing Australia as a result of their massive funding campaign for the Voice to parliament. Tony also shares his insights on the future of the centre-right, and draws on the
28 April 2022
Censorship Is The Real Threat To Twitter, Not Elon Musk
If politicians around the world have their way, it won’t be the owner of the company deciding what can be said on the platform but state social media censors. This week Elon Musk bought Twitter for $US44 billion ($62 billion). Depending on the day-to-day fluctuations of Tesla’s share price, the world’s richest person, the 50-year old Musk, is worth at least $US200
27 April 2022
Not Art For The Masses
Australia Council for the Arts seems to be wasting taxpayers’ money on obscure fringe artists The Morrison government’s announcement that it has appointed five new Board members to the Australia Council for the Arts will do nothing to fix the Council’s cultural problem which is so deep rooted that the only solution is to abolish it altogether. Since 2016, the
18 April 2022
Why It’s No Contest On The Economy
The ALP of the 2020s has lost interest in Australia’s economic future. And the Coalition appears to be following suit. It says a great deal about the condition of Australian policy and politics that the biggest story of the first week of the 2022 federal election campaign was Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s inability to name the level of unemployment and
31 March 2022
Fighting The Free Money Syndrome
Tesla drivers, the Morrison government and the Reserve Bank are united by the same idea. That it does not really matter where money comes from. It is a strange world we live in, if when the government cuts taxes on a product it is accused of giving it a “subsidy”. But this is exactly what’s happened after this year’s federal
11 October 2018
Regulators, The Royal Commission And Crony Capitalism
The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation, and Finances Services Industry has uncovered some inexcusable behaviour. Charging client’s fees without providing services, pressured selling of insurance to a man with down syndrome, and thousands of breaches for providing unsolicited advice and insurance are just a few examples highlighted in the Royal Commission’s interim report released last Sunday. Almost
16 March 2017
There Is A Better Home For Superannuation
Giving people access to their own money is an uncontroversial idea. Young people trying to enter the housing market should be granted access to their own superannuation accounts to help make it happen. One of the biggest hurdles young people have to clear in buying their first home is saving enough money for a deposit. It takes time, and with
