11 May 2022
IPA Report: The Employment Consequences Of The Early Closure Of The Eraring Power Station
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) was among the first organisations in Australia to quantify the potential employment impact of a policy of net zero emissions by 2050. In April 2022, the IPA released its landmark report, The Economic and Employment Consequences of Net Zero Emissions by 2050 in Australia, which estimates the potential costs of a policy of net zero emissions
28 April 2022
Censorship Is The Real Threat To Twitter, Not Elon Musk
If politicians around the world have their way, it won’t be the owner of the company deciding what can be said on the platform but state social media censors. This week Elon Musk bought Twitter for $US44 billion ($62 billion). Depending on the day-to-day fluctuations of Tesla’s share price, the world’s richest person, the 50-year old Musk, is worth at least $US200
22 April 2022
IPA Report: Net Zero Means No New Coal, Gas, Oil Jobs
“A net zero emissions by 2050 target means that, at a minimum, every coal, gas, and oil project in the construction pipeline will need to be scrapped, cancelling over 478,000 jobs concentrated in regional Australia,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research at the Institute of Public Affairs. A landmark report released today by the Institute of Public Affairs, The Economic and
18 April 2022
Why It’s No Contest On The Economy
The ALP of the 2020s has lost interest in Australia’s economic future. And the Coalition appears to be following suit. It says a great deal about the condition of Australian policy and politics that the biggest story of the first week of the 2022 federal election campaign was Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s inability to name the level of unemployment and
16 July 2020
11.7% The Real Unemployment Rate: IPA
Although the official unemployment rate is 7.4%, analysis by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs estimates that the real unemployment rate, including those who have on net left the labour force since March and those who are employed but working zero hours for economic reasons, is 11.7%. “Australia’s tragic unemployment crisis continues with 815,000 jobs being destroyed
28 May 2020
Exposed: The True Scope Of Lockdown Unemployment
The official unemployment rate released by the ABS hides the true impact of the lockdown measures on the economy and employment. In addition to the 823 thousand unemployed, there are 1.26 million Australians who have been forced out of work since March following the lockdown that are not included in the unemployment rate. The unemployment rate for April jumped to
23 October 2018
Unions Want To Change the Rules They Wrote
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today accused the ACTU of hypocrisy for its ‘Change the Rules’ rally to rewrite Australia’s rigid industrial relations system that they themselves wrote. IPA Research Fellow Kurt Wallace said, “Australia has one of the world’s most inflexible, complex and extensive industrial relations regimes. The ACTU’s demands to slap more rules
8 November 2017
ACTU’s ‘Living Wage’ Will Push Up Business Costs And Boost Joblessness
The “living wage” proposed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions would increase poverty and make the poorest in our society worse off. The ACTU is calling for the replacement of the existing minimum wage, which is set by the Fair Work Commission balancing both macroeconomic performance and living standards, with a living wage focusing exclusively on living standards. The
12 October 2017
When France Puts You To Shame With IR Reform, You’re In Trouble
Australia needs politicians like Emmanuel Macron – politicians who are willing to take on powerful vested interests for the sake of reform. Sure, there’s plenty not to like about Macron: the global warming evangelism, for one thing, or his ‘bold vision’ for a beefed-up European Union. But there is much to be admired in Macron’s economic agenda. More to the
19 August 2017
Australia’s Silent Crisis In Male Employment
Australia is experiencing a mass exodus of working-age men from the labour force, according to a landmark report released today by the Institute of Public Affairs. The report The Disappearing Australian Working Man by Institute of Public Affairs Research Fellow Gideon Rozner, argues that the official unemployment rate has become a misleading measure of joblessness, as it only measures those
