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Chris Berg

Portrait of Chris Berg

Research Fellow

Chris Berg is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs. He is a regular columnist with the Sunday Age and ABC's The Drum, covering cultural, political and economic issues. He is an award-winning former editor of the IPA Review.

His monograph, The Growth of Australia's Regulatory State, was published in 2008. He is also the editor of 100 Great Books of Liberty (with John Roskam) published by Connor Court Publishing in 2010, and The National Curriculum: A Critique (2011).

Contact details

Telephone: 0402 257 681

Address: Level 2 410 Collins St, Melbourne 3000 vic

Related publications

ACMA should be shut down: Freedom of speech under threat

MEDIA RELEASE | Chris Berg

"The Australian Communications and Media Authority is a threat to freedom of speech and should be shut down," said Chris Berg, Research Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs, a free market think tank. "ACMA's finding against Alan Jones...

Submission to the Independent Media Inquiry

SUBMISSION | Chris Berg

The Independent Inquiry into Media and Media Regulation raises troubling freedom of speech and freedom of the press issues. A free and independent press is an absolute necessity for a functioning democracy, and freedom of speech is one of the...

New South Wales should scrap national curriculum, not delay it

MEDIA RELEASE | Chris Berg

The free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs today welcomed the decision of the O'Farrell government to delay implementing the Gillard government's national curriculum until 2013. 'This delay is welcome.  But the O'Farrell...

Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission National Classification Scheme Review

SUBMISSION | Chris Berg and Tim Wilson

Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission National Classification Scheme Review

China under Mao - What we know now and what we should have known then

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Chris Berg and Sabine Wolff

There's no longer an excuse for any illusions about the horrors of China under Mao Zedong.  Frank Dikötter, Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Professor of the Modern History of China at the...

Related news

The true origins of anti-paternalism

Ideas & Liberty | Chris Berg
The Drum 31st January, 2012

Opposition to government paternalism wasn't always a conservative or libertarian thing. Indeed, the use of the word "nanny" to describe state...

Lost in translation

Ideas & Liberty | Chris Berg
Sydney Morning Herald 29th January, 2012

As school returns for 2012, there are now more students learning Latin than Chinese. Once we take out Chinese-born students and those who speak...

The dramatic collapse of trust in government

Ideas & Liberty | Chris Berg
The Drum 25th January, 2012

The real story of the financial crisis isn't bank bonuses, the impending collapse of the Eurozone, or the Occupy movement. It is how, in every...

Need to keep fingers off the panic button

Ideas & Liberty | Chris Berg
Sydney Morning Herald 21st January, 2012

Public health advocates describe Australia's binge drinking as an "epidemic" for a reason. Real epidemics have a frightening unpredictability. They...

Car makers cling to subsidies of old

Economics & Deregulation | Chris Berg
The Drum 17th January, 2012

Seeing a Commonwealth minister beg on behalf of a special interest is embarrassing. The Manufacturing Minister Kim Carr wrote in The Australian...