24 August 2018
The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 74 with John Roskam and Daniel Wild
This week James and Pete talk leadership challenges, last week’s podcast breaking the IPA website, the latest on corporate tax cuts and all the papers in the US making a ‘brave stand’ against Trump. We talk to IPA Executive Director John Roskam about the launch and success of the IPA’s latest podcast The Great Books of Literature and why it doesn’t
22 August 2018
You Think The Coalition Is Bad? Look At Labor’s Policies
Politics in a stable democracy should be boring, even relaxed and comfortable. Yet since the fall of the Howard government in 2007 Australian politics has been exciting– almost a blood sport. The population is certainly not relaxed nor comfortable. Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister appeared well on his way to changing all that. Re-election looked possible, even likely. The shenanigans in Canberra
22 August 2018
Peter Dutton Will Not Solve The Existential Crisis Of The Liberal Party
Tuesday’s Liberal leadership ballot settles nothing. Malcolm Turnbull’s victory margin of 48 votes to 35 practically guarantees another challenge to the Prime Minister, if not from Peter Dutton than from any number of contenders. Neither does yesterday’s vote settle the fundamental question the Liberal Party has been been grappling with since the retirement of John Howard and Peter Costello. For a decade the
