10 August 2023
Big Business Has Lost Its Voice In Debate On Economic Reform
CEOs today are more likely to adopt social causes than policy agendas and have opinions more in common with a typical cadet journalist at the ABC than with Milton Friedman. Here’s a question. If you were Matt Comyn, the Commonwealth Bank chief executive who’s just announced a record profit of $10 billion, and whose pay has gone up 50 per cent
16 June 2023
Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: Voice Is Not Recognition
See below for show notes: Former Prime Minister and Distinguished Fellow of the IPA, Tony Abbott, and the IPA’s Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild discuss the deliberate conflation of the voice with indigenous recognition – they are two unrelated and separate matters. Tony also shares his perspective on plummeting support for the Victorian Liberal Party, as well as the importance
2 June 2023
Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: Voice Debate Being Rigged
See below for show notes: Former Prime Minister and Distinguished Fellow of the IPA, Tony Abbott, and the IPA’s Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild discuss the latest attempt by fake fact checkers to censor debate on the Voice. And Tony shares his unique perspective on the evolving situation in Ukraine. Find out more at australia.ipa.org.au
1 June 2023
Justice Harrison Inadvertently Highlights A Key Concern On The Voice
In this article, Scott Hargreaves contextualises and disseminates the IPA’s analysis of the Voice to Parliament. The IPA has been researching the consequences a potential Voice to Parliament would have to the political freedom, liberty, and equality of Australians since the Uluru Statement of the Heart was first being drafted. The perils of abandoning the separation of powers Opponents of
14 April 2023
The Difference Between Yes And Yes
Well-meaning Australians have no idea what they are voting for Opponents of the Voice to Parliament have argued that it is inherently wrong to enshrine race at the centre of the Australian constitution and to give one racially defined group civic rights denied to all other Australian citizens. It breaches the principle of political equality which is fundamental to
6 April 2023
Letter To The eSafety Commissioner
Dear Ms Inman Grant Ensuring the Voice to Parliament Referendum debate is free and fair The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) was founded in 1943 as a non-profit educational research organisation with the objective of furthering the individual, social, political, and economic freedom of the Australian people, and maintaining and enhancing the Australian way of life. A central strand of
