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Alan Moran

Portrait of Alan Moran

Director, Deregulation Unit

Dr Alan Moran, Director of the IPA's Deregulation Unit, is an economist who has made a specialty of regulatory matters, in particular covering energy, global warming, housing, transport, and competition issues.  He has written three books on these matters delivered dozens of addresses and had over a hundred press articles published.

Alan has worked in a range of positions with the Federal Departments of Trade and Industry and Commerce. He headed up the Commonwealth's Business Regulation Review Unit within the Productivity Commission.  He became the Research Director of the Tasman Institute (now ACIL Tasman) in 1990 where he worked on privatization and environmental economics.  He joined the Victorian Department of Agriculture, Energy and Minerals, in 1994 as Deputy-Secretary of Energy.

He joined the IPA in 1996.

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Related publications

Submission to inquiry into the Mineral Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011 and related bills

SUBMISSION | Julie Novak and Alan Moran

Submission to inquiry into the Mineral Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011 and related bills

No longer alone

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Alan Moran

Alan Moran reviews Mark Steyn's After America: Get Ready for Armageddon As a modern day Cassandra, in After America, Mark Steyn sees the Western world as a crumbling edifice in which the liberties and wealth that we have enjoyed face escalating...

Carbon tax calculator exposes hit to family and business budgets

MEDIA RELEASE | Alan Moran

The Institute of Public Affairs, Australia's leading free market think tank, today distributed thousands of postcards to small businesses across the country highlighting a new research tool which allows Australians to calculate the impact to their...

Joint Select Committee on Australia's Clean Energy Future Legislation

SUBMISSION | Alan Moran

Submission to the Inquiry into the Clean Energy Bills

Address to the 6th Annual Housing Congress

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Alan Moran

Address by Alan Moran to the 6th Annual Housing Congress in Brisbane on 28 June 2011.

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Renewable energy rules lose traction

Economics & Deregulation, Deregulation Unit, Energy and Climate Change | Alan Moran
Australian Financial Review 1st February, 2012

Energy policy in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries is spurred by concerns that gas and oil are becoming...

Danger of new thickets of gas regulation

Economics & Deregulation, Deregulation Unit, Energy and Climate Change | Alan Moran
Australian Financial Review 31st January, 2012

Peter Roberts' "Globalised gas pricing has local costs" (Talking Point, January 30) applauds the commonwealth's National Energy Security...

Fair's fare benefits government, not business

Economics & Deregulation, Deregulation Unit, Energy and Climate Change | Alan Moran
Herald Sun 14th January, 2012

The Rudd/Gillard governments have introduced many business-unfriendly policies. Three of these the mining tax, Fair Work Australia (FWA) and the...

Era of cheap energy needn't be over

Economics & Deregulation, Deregulation Unit, Energy and Climate Change | Alan Moran
Australian Financial Review 11th January, 2012

Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has launched the government's draft white paper on energy. Having run the gauntlet of bureaucratic committees, much...

The Gold, the Red and the Green

Economics & Deregulation | Alan Moran
Quadrant 10th January, 2012

There has been one constant in the defining struggle in politics over the past two centuries. That struggle has been between those who want more of...