4 October 2020
The ABC Has Just Moved Further From The Mainstream
Perhaps the staff at the ABC voted themselves a pay rise so they could donate the extra money to the 606,000 Australians who have lost their job in the private sector since March because of the lockdowns the public broadcaster has been amongst the loudest in cheerleading. Or perhaps ABC staff simply think they are better and more deserving of a pay rise than mainstream Australians
7 August 2020
ABC Enforces Divisive Identity Politics In Leaked Document
An internal ABC document obtained by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has exposed the divisive identity politics that is being forced onto mainstream Australians by the public broadcaster. The ‘Content Tracker’ asks ABC Radio National producers and staff to keep tabs and enforce representation on its programs based on inegalitarian characteristics including women, Indigenous and Torres
31 July 2020
Information Commissioner To Investigate SBS Over Deleted Bushfires Article
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has looked at the Institute of Public Affairs’ submission and decided to commence a review into the rejection of the IPA’s Freedom of Information request seeking information from SBS as to why they deleted an old Australian Associated Press article from their website titled: “Fires not due to climate change: expert — covered
3 July 2020
ABC Adept At Playing Cuts Victim
The current behaviour of the ABC’s management and staff is a perfect demonstration of just how removed the national broadcaster has become from mainstream Australia. By complaining the way it has about the Coalition government’s failure to index increases in its funding over the next three years, the ABC has succeeded in making the case for its eventual privatisation more
11 October 2019
Improve Private Prison Contracts To Cut Costs And Reduce Reoffending
“Stronger incentives for rehabilitation can improve private prisons and lead to reduced reoffending, less crime, and lower costs for taxpayers,” said Andrew Bushnell, Research Fellow at the free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs. The IPA today released a new research report on private prisons in Australia. Eight of Australia’s 98 prisons are operated by private companies. These
5 October 2018
Reform ABC And Unis By Funding Cuts
In a public debate in Canada a few months ago with the psychologist Jordan Peterson and the philosopher Sam Harris, Bret Weinstein, the American evolutionary biologist, got to the heart of the crisis engulfing some of our society’s key cultural and political institutions. “We’ve arrived at a place in history where the sense-making apparatus that usually helps us figure out
26 September 2018
IPA Urges Rethink Of State Ownership Of The ABC
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today called on the Morrison Government to privatise the ABC in light of allegations of editorial interference by ABC Chair Justin Milne. “This episode proves once and for all that, despite its claims otherwise, the ABC is in no way ‘independent’,” said IPA Director of Communications, Gideon Rozner. “A situation
19 June 2018
The ABC, ‘Independent’ To A Fault
It is appalling that a sitting government should have to complain that the ABC is repeating Labor lies as facts. The ABC itself should be ashamed to have received such a complaint. Yet that is precisely why the Labor Party supported the establishment of the ABC – to provide a forum for pro-ALP news and opinion. This points to questioning
14 June 2018
ABC Is About Partisanship Not Diversity
The difference between the ABC and Fairfax and News Ltd is that the ABC is a $1 billion government program that provides media services to Australians. Fairfax and News Ltd are private entities that do so at their own expense and hope to earn a profit. Those small details were missing from Laura Tingle’s defence of the ABC published inWeekend AFR.
22 August 2016
Still A Strong Case For Keeping Privatisation In The Reform Tool Kit
Despite recent concerns raised by the head of Australia’s competition watchdog, privatisation remains a viable reform option. Even though it has been firmly established as a modern economic reform mainstay, the notion of privatisation remains a controversial one among the public at large. There are vested interests that will disparate privatisation as a matter of course, regardless of its successes,
