Archived publication for 2011
Recent publications
No Future for Manufacturing with Carbon Tax and Renewable Energy Costs
Address by Senator the Hon. Ron Boswell Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne 28th September 2011
Joint Select Committee on Australia's Clean Energy Future Legislation
Submission to the Inquiry into the Clean Energy Bills
Beyond its use-by date: Australia's system of fiscal equalisation, and how to reform it
Submission to the Federal GST Distribution Review
Naked extortion? Environmental NGOs imposing involuntary regulations on consumers and business
Naked extortion? Environmental NGOs imposing [in]voluntary regulations on consumers and business
Volume 62 Number 3
James Paterson on whether Julia Gillard is worse than Whitlam, Tim Andrews on how technology can help to end wasteful spending, Sinclair Davidson the mining tax debacle, Ben Hourigan on the popularity of TV's libertarian anti-heroes, and much much...
Double blow to Aus economy as productivity falters and investment moves offshore
Free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, has today said that high taxes and overregulation are choking the Australian economy. This follows reports that China's sixth largest steel maker has invested US$1.5 billion in Sierra Leone...
Government must ditch new taxes to stop resource boom collapse
Free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, today called on the Gillard Government to scrap its mining and carbon taxes in light of the looming economic downturn in Australia's biggest export market, China. ‘The recent stock...
Share market meltdown hit to resources sector
A new report this week from Ernst & Young reveals the threat to the resources sector from higher taxes in the wake of this week's share market collapse. Responding to the report Hugh Tobin, Director of the North Australia Project at the...
Carbon tax will cripple Australian coal industry: new study
The federal government's carbon tax will cripple Australia's coal industry forcing jobs offshore and closing many existing coal mines according to free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. A new report released Monday by ACIL-Tasman...
New report warns of resource bubble
A new report from Standard and Poor's global rating service has warned that current conditions in the commodity markets may represent an unsustainable bubble which is open to a sudden correction. Responding to the report Hugh Tobin, Director of...