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Chris Berg

Portrait of Chris Berg

Research Fellow; Editor, IPA Review

Chris Berg is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs and Editor of the IPA Review. He also the head of the IPA's Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit, and Director of the IPA Nanny State Project. He is a regular columnist with the Sunday Age covering cultural, political and economic issues.

His monograph, The Growth of Australia's Regulatory State: Ideology, accountability and the mega-regulators, was published in 2008, and his co-edited book (with John Roskam) 100 Great Books of Liberty: The essential introduction to the greatest idea of Western Civilisation will be published by Connor Court Publishing in 2010.

Contact details

Telephone: 0402 257 681

Address: Level 2 410 Collins St, Melbourne 3000 vic

Related publications

From the Rum Corps to the alcopop

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Chris Berg

In the special episode of ABC TV's Q&A in February this year, Kevin Rudd was asked whether he would like to raise the drinking age to 21: ‘of course'. Rudd quickly backed away from that definitive statement when the audience responded...

Editorial

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Chris Berg

You don't need an opinion about climate science-nor any opinion about the ‘need' for action on carbon dioxide emissions-to observe that political action on a national or global scale will be totally futile to achieve the ambitious...

Climategate: What we've learned so far

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Chris Berg and Sinclair Davidson

The exposure of thousands of emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia is one of the biggest developments in the climate change debate for the last ten years. The emails-now dubbed...

Preventative Health Taskforce Report - A Grab For Government Power Over Our Lives

MEDIA RELEASE | Chris Berg

The National Preventative Health Taskforce's report released today is a grab for more bureaucratic power, and a grab for more tax by government, said the Institute of Public Affairs, a free market think tank.

20 Years On: Western liberty and Soviet tyranny

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Chris Berg

2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall-the moment which signalled the end of the short and brutal totalitarian 20th century. The movement had actually begun much earlier. The disintegration of Communist rule in Hungary...

Related news

Schools should be free to teach what they want

Education | Chris Berg
The Sunday Age 7th March, 2010

Most people seem to have missed the point about the national curriculum. The opposition certainly has. If the national curriculum is as bad as...

Terror laid bare

Nanny State | Chris Berg
The Sunday Age 22nd February, 2010

Flying is awful - and it looks like it's only going to get worse. The actual "flying" part can be all right if you get one of those exotic personal...

Take the politics out of commerce, not vice versa

Economics & Deregulation, Governance & Service Provision and Deregulation Unit | Chris Berg
The Sunday Age 7th February, 2010

Last week the Australian Electoral Commission published its latest donation figures for political parties. Donations are down from last year....

What do Haitians need most? To get away from Haiti

Economics & Deregulation and Food & Environment | Chris Berg
The Sunday Age 24th January, 2010

It will take much more than a global outpouring of grief to fix Haiti. But there is one concrete way rich countries could really help out -...

Lost property: home in deed but not in fact

Economics & Deregulation and Nanny State | Chris Berg
The Sunday Age 10th January, 2010

Debates over public policy rarely pivot on philosophical questions. But here's one: what does it actually mean to "own" your property? NSW farmer...