7 December 2022
The Left’s Selective Catastrophising
This article was originally published in The Spectator Australia on or about 7 December 2022 and was written by the author in their capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. Catastrophising comes easily to climate change activists. Our new monarch, King Charles III, declared
21 November 2022
Voters Must Say No To Labor’s Naïve Plan To Make Victoria Nearly Totally Reliant On Green Energy By 2035
This article was originally published in Sky News Australia on or about 21 November 2022 and was written by the author in their capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. While the Coalition want to increase gas supply and combat ever-climbing electricity prices, Labor
12 September 2022
Don’t let your guard down, the Islamist terror threat is as real as ever 21 years on from the 9/11 attacks that shocked the world
This article was originally published in Sky News Australia on or about 12 September 2022 and was written by the author in their capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. As the West is distracted by domestic issues and the rise of Russia and
5 September 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev Was A Socialist Through And Through – Not The Heroic Pro-capitalist He’s Being Painted Out To Be
This article was originally published on Sky News Australia on 5 September 2022 and was written by the author in their capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. Gorbachev has been widely remembered for his promotion of free enterprise and democracy, but not
22 August 2022
Blind Western Aggression Against Chinese And Russian Authoritarianism Won’t Win The Clash Of Civilisations
If we really want to convince the world to take our side, we have to start by highlighting the main virtue of the Anglosphere – that despite all our faults we simply have more to offer than authoritarian dictatorships. Plenty has been said about the threats to US ascendency by the rising superpowers of Russia and China. This column presents
1 April 2022
Frydenberg’s Budget Is A Spendathon, But Is It Any Good?
The government’s much-anticipated 2022-23 Budget contains the usual set of massive spending programs characteristic of an election year. Many of these are warranted and arguably long overdue – such as the nearly $10 billion set aside to increase intelligence and cybersecurity capabilities (though this will only be realised over the course of a decade). However, most are largely political in
26 March 2022
Poll: Voters Say Don’t Hold Australia Back
New polling data released today by the Institute of Public Affairs has found a significant majority of Australians believe it is critical for Australia be able to manufacture its own vital supplies amidst China’s growing assertiveness in our region and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The polling data, collected by Dynata, found 70% of respondents believed that it was very important
15 March 2022
Petrol Price Hike Net Zero In Action
“While any form of tax relief is welcome, cuts to fuel excise will be negated within days due to Australia’s lack of energy production and dependence on foreign oil,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research at the Institute of Public Affairs. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s latest petrol monitoring report has cited Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, OPEC’s refusal to
3 March 2022
Ukraine War Spells The End Of The Golden Arches Peace Theory
For the past quarter of a century, we’ve wanted to believe Francis Fukuyama and Thomas Friedman were right. And we’ve acted as if they were right. Fukuyama’s book The End of History and the Last Man, published in 1992 at the end of the Cold War claimed ‘history had ended’ because every country would become a liberal democracy. No more
20 March 2018
UK Is Right To Take A Stand Against Putin’s Aggression
Britain’s reaction to Russia’s aggression on its soil is tough and right. This is the type of response we should expect from a post-Brexit Britain, which is not bound by the lowest common denominator responses of the European Union, but defends its sovereignty, values and national interest against rising revisionist powers. Russia’s attempted murder of former double agent Sergei Skripal
