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IPA: 'we have not been missing in action'
In Crikey yesterday Guy Rundle pointed out that the IPA has been the leading critic of nanny state proposals that try to tell Australians what to...
Government bully girls are just as bad as bully boys
In her recent contribution to the Punch, Tanja Kovac illuminates her readers with a startling observation. That the Institute of Public Affairs is...
Ad ban on junk food no solution
A RECENT report from the Obesity Policy Coalition called for draconian restrictions on advertising so-called "junk food" on television at any time...
Simon Chapman is blowing smoke on smoking
The public debate about smoking in a free society has reached fever-pitch since the federal government announced its plan for olive green plain...
Backwoods policy making
Released on the Friday after the federal budget, the Government's Sustainable Population Strategy is for the most part just 88 pages of promotional...
The nanny state is coming...for your democratic soul
Is saying "nanny state" just a cheap slur? The term was coined in The Spectator in 1965 and clearly bears the marks of that publication and that...
Morality and humanity in the gambling debate
Opposition to gambling has always been somewhat aesthetic and moralistic. The character of that moralising has, however, changed over time. During...
Nanny state’s thriving on tax harvested from smokers
The latest move by the Federal Government to make smoking a habit of the past is the latest salvo in the rapid expansion of the nanny state....
Plain packs pointless when smoke gets in our eyes
When the Rudd government's National Preventative Health Taskforce released a position paper on anti-tobacco measures, they titled it "Making...