People & associates
Chris Berg
ACMA should be shut down: Freedom of speech under threat
"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
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
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 to Australian Law Reform Commission National Classification Scheme Review
China under Mao - What we know now and what we should have known then
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...
Has Australian Democracy Become Too Conservative?
Has Australian Democracy Become Too Conservative? A speech given at the ACCESS Annual Debate, 15 November 2010 If Australian democracy is getting too conservative what does that mean? In a speech just before her death, the radical freedom novelist...
The Impact and Cost of Health Sector Regulation
Every Australian deserves the opportunity to access high quality health care services. Those services should improve quality of life while remaining affordable. Increasingly however, Australia's health system is bowing under the weight of a...
The 'divine violence' of Slavoj Zizek
Nearly half a century after 1968, Europe is again seized by sporadic outbursts of anarchic, seemingly-purposeless violence. The extraordinary violence in Greece brought about by that country's sovereign debt crisis is both unfocused and...
Editorial, March 2010
'People have been saying for a while now that what we need is a book industry plan', said the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Kim Carr in a speech in mid-February. ‘No one is going to ghost it for...
From the Rum Corps to the alcopop
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...