Passage Of Registered Organisations Bill Warmly Welcomed
The passage through Parliament of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Bill in the early hours of this morning has been warmly welcomed by free market think tank the Institute of…
Public Service Perks Don’t Pass The Pub Test
Enterprise bargaining is a two-way street. Public sector unions cannot continue to argue that well-paid public servants deserve additional entitlements without considering the trade-offs that...
18C Repeal The Only Solution On Freedom Of Speech
Here’s a simple idea all lawmakers should adopt: when a law is fundamentally broken, it should be repealed. Not replaced. Repealed. So it is with section 18C of the Racial…
Donald Trump Will Lead The US In The Right Direction. We Should Take Note
Donald Trump’s historic victory represents a huge opportunity for middle America. It is a rejection of liberal internationalism, political correctness and the progressive politics of urban...
Australia’s Deteriorating Fiscal Position
From the Australian Financial Review, on Australia’s deteriorating fiscal position: The Parliamentary Budget Office has issued a fresh reminder of how Australia’s political system is struggling to...
Default Superannuation – Let All Australians choose
All Australians should have the freedom to choose their superannuation fund according to a submission to the Productivity Commission’s Superannuation Default Model Inquiry by free-market...
IPA Welcomes PM Support For Inquiry Into 18C
The free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs today welcomed the Prime Minister’s comment that a parliamentary inquiry into section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975...
Submission On Alternative Superannuation Default Models
The Institute of Public Affairs believes that superannuation lies at the heart of important national policy questions about taxes, spending, personal responsibility and choice, as well as the...
Submission To The Royal Commission Into The Protection And Detention Of Children In The Northern Territory
The central contention of this submission is that while there is rightly significant community concern about the operation of youth justice facilities in the Northern Territory, this concern...
South Australia’s New Home Detention Laws Should Not Be About Coddling Criminals
Lindsay Bassani, a former Education Department bureaucrat and football coach, was sentenced to home detention after stealing almost $10,000 from the South Australian Aboriginal Sports Training...
Section 18C Must Go As It Curbs Freedom Of Speech
Freedom of speech is meaningless if all it entails is the liberty to express opinions approved by the state. Freedom of speech is richer than that. It’s a fundamental human…
Union Bully Busting: FU To The UFU
Voters in the ACT have a stark choice this weekend: Jeremy Hanson and the Canberra Liberals, or four more years of a government notoriously beholden to trade unions (even by…