Tony Abbott

1 May 2023

“The stunning backflip by the referendum committee, which will now allow Tony Abbott to give evidence, underscores how the inquiry process has attempted to stack the deck for the ‘yes’ case,” said Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. IPA analysis of publicly available information reveals 95% of witnesses invited to appear before the Joint Select

25 January 2021

The Institute of Public Affairs has today announced that the 28th Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Tony Abbott will join the IPA as a Distinguished Fellow. Mr Abbott will be working with the IPA in the fight for mainstream Australian values. “I can think of no-one better to join with in this effort than Tony Abbott,” said John Roskam,

2 December 2019

I still think back to that night in mid-May this year: scrutineering in some far-flung warehouse in suburban Melbourne, running down my phone battery to check seat-by-seat results, as it dawned on us that – seemingly against the laws of political gravity – Scott Morrison had pulled it off. Nobody had loathed Morrison’s predecessor more than I had, but even

6 November 2019

“The Secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department, Chris Moraitis, must stand down pending an investigation into how his department abused its power to target Australians because of their political beliefs,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research at free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. On Saturday, The Australian reported that Andrew Cooper, the organiser of a conservative political conference

6 November 2019

Bureaucrats are using Australia’s foreign-influence laws to run a covert political operation out of the Attorney-General’s Department to silence Australians becaus­e of their political beliefs, all under the nose of the Coalition government. This is the kind of behaviour one would expect from the Stasi in East Germany in 1961, not in Australia­ today. On Saturday, The Weekend Australian reported that Andrew