People & associates
Alan Moran
The Tragedy of Planning: Losing the Great Australian Dream
A house provides us with a place of rest, a place for our possessions, and a place to raise our families. Not only this, but a house is often the largest investment we make during our lifetime. However housing is becoming unaffordable for more and...
Lessons we can draw from Mad Max
Throughout history, Western Civilisation has had no monopoly over notions of property rights, freedom to trade and the rule of law.
The Electricity Industry in Australia: Problems Along the Way to a National Electricity Market
Planning restraints: A plague on wealth and the democratic process
Economic planning is a term as archaic as phrases such as 'peoples' democracy' or 'proletarian justice'. Yet urban planning-and land planning generally-is flourishing and dominates the evolving structure of cities.
Reducing Red Tape in New South Wales
IPA submission to IPART investigation into the burden of regulation in NSW and improving regulatory efficiency. Though NSW has not been the Australian jurisdiction with the fastest increase in regulatory burden, governments in the State have...
Regulatory Subsidies to Renewable Energy in Victoria
A submission to the Victorian Government's issues paper "Driving Investment in Renewable Energy in Victoria" The Victorian Government should not be trying to artificially stimulate interest in wind power. Wind power subsidies are unjustified and...
Popular clubs suffer under the salary cap
The AFL, and its supporters, would benefit from labour market reform
Drinking from the bottomless well
Energy Efficiency Opportunities?: Submission to the Senate
At a time when the Government has just launched its Task Force to reduce the regulation on business, it is simultaneously introducing new measures like the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Bill which will needlessly intensify that regulation. It is...