The Voice To Parliament

See below for show notes: Former prime minister and Distinguished Fellow of the IPA Tony Abbott and IPA director of research Daniel Wild discuss how an Indigenous-only body in parliament would divide Australians by race forever and would become a third chamber of parliament; Australia’s emerging energy crisis which is the product of net zero and red tape; why Australians

“Jim Chalmers’ proposed ‘accord’ on climate policy is an elitist stitch-up between the big end of town which is getting wealthy off green subsidies at the expense of the jobs of mainstream Australians,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research at the Institute of Public Affairs. Today the Australian Financial Review reported that should Labor win government, Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers

“Holding a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament on the anniversary of the 1967 referendum is a backwards and retrograde step which will destroy the progress to racial equality started in 1967 and divide Australians by race forever,” said Morgan Begg, Director of the Legal Rights Program at the Institute of Public Affairs. It was reported today that a

The fear the “Voices of” independents are striking into the Coalition can be measured by the tone of the language Scott Morrison has used to attack them. While in Queensland this week, he described them as “the voices of Labor” backed by “big financiers” from “down there in the southern states”. That’s a lot of attention from the Prime Minister for an

Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today launched a new weekly podcast: Australia’s Heartland with Tony Abbott, featuring the 28th Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Tony Abbott AC, who is a Distinguished Fellow at the IPA. “Australia’s Heartland with Tony Abbott is the voice for mainstream Australian values,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research at the IPA, and

A new poll of 1,015 Australians commissioned by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has found that mainstream Australians overwhelmingly support the values of egalitarianism and equality before the law and reject racially divisive proposals such as an indigenous-only Voice to Parliament. The poll data was collected by marketing research firm Dynata between 19—23 February 2021. It

The leadership spill within the federal National Party has given quiet Australians a megaphone. The re-elected Barnaby Joyce, who has returned to the deputy prime ministership, said that the spill was “about the people of Australia”. It’s understandable why Joyce said this; much like the Australian people, the Nationals have been dragged towards a net zero target against their will

The Institute of Public Affairs commends the Prime Minister Scott Morrison for ruling out a constitutionally enshrined indigenous voice. However, as I wrote in The Australian today, a legislated voice is being used a smokescreen for a inserting racial division into the constitution:   Noel Pearson’s address confirms that the process for designing a voice to parliament in legislation is a smokescreen for

Advocates for an Indigenous Voice to parliament see the proposal for a legislated option merely as a stepping stone to radical constitutional change rather than the compromise some conservatives think it could be.   The National Indigenous Australian Agency (NIAA) has now released to the public its interim report outlining a proposal of an Indigenous Voice to parliament. The interim report, produced as part of a co-design process launched by the federal

The federal government released on Saturday the interim report on an Indigenous Voice, through its co-design process for what an Indigenous Voice would look like and how it might operate. IPA Director of Research Daniel Wild said of the announcement: “The shared decision making model is undemocratic, illiberal, and shows that the Voice will have more than merely an advisory