Australian universities should not get a cent of any federal government bailout program or stimulus package in the wake of the coronavirus. Over the past decade universities have privatised the...
Australian boys and men seeking help for mental illness may soon find themselves being lectured about toxic masculinity and white privilege. The Australian Psychological Society (APS), Australia’s...
The next cohort of prospective undergraduates who plan on studying Australia’s history at university in 2019 should scrutinise the subject descriptions on offer with considerable care. If they are...
The British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton in a recent speech remarked that modern-day universities are increasingly reverting to the role they played in the Middle Ages. Medieval universities...
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the Government’s announcement that former Chief Justice of Australia Robert French will review freedom of speech at...
The University of Tasmania’s draft behaviour policy is a serious threat to freedom of expression and basic legal rights. The bedrock of university life is the ability to freely explore ideas. It...
In 2009 Dennis Prager launched PragerU which creates concise 5 minute videos on complex political, economic, social and cultural issues. PragerU stands by its claim that viewing all of its videos...
Australia’s universities are failing to protect free speech on campus. The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)’s Free Speech on Campus Audit 2017 is a systematic analysis of over 165...
Australian universities are hostile to free speech on campus, according to the Institute of Public Affairs’ Free Speech on Campus Audit 2017 authored by IPA research fellow Matthew Lesh. The Audit...
The IPA’s Dr Bella d’Abrera explains the dangers of identity politics, and how this way of thinking is impacting Australian universities.
In 440 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus broke with tradition by collecting primary sources and then systematically and critically arranging them into a narrative. In doing so, he...
Bad ideas flourish in dark places. The Rise of Identity Politics: An Audit of History Teaching at Australian Universities in 2017, released on Monday by the Institute of Public Affairs, exposes...
