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Gillard backdown on anti-discrimination laws a victory for free speech
The Institute of Public Affairs, the organisation that led the public campaign against the Gillard government's proposed changes to anti-discrimination laws, said today that the decision to withdraw the legislation was a victory for freedom of...
IPA FreedomWatch Factsheet: News Media 'Reform' Bills Package 2013
News Media 'Reform' Bills Package 2013
Conroy media regulation is government licensing in all but name
"Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's proposals for media regulation are a de facto licensing scheme for the print media and a fundamental threat to freedom of the press," said Chris Berg, Research Fellow with the free market think tank the...
Government will spend nearly 60 million this year lobbying itself for nanny state policies
The Commonwealth government will this year give $57.7 million of taxpayers' money to the Australian National Preventive Health Agency to lobby the government for Nanny State policies, according to a new paper by the free market think tank the...
The Biggest Vested Interest of All: How Government Lobbies to Restrict Individual Rights and Freedom
The Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan wrote in The Monthly in March 2012 that: Australia's fair go is today under threat from a new source. To be blunt, the rising power of vested interests is undermining our equality and threatening our democracy. But...
Gillard government seizure of inactive bank accounts is an attack on property rights
"The Gillard government's plan to take money from dormant bank accounts is a shameful grab for cash and a significant attack on property rights," said Simon Breheny, director of the Legal Rights Project at free market think tank the Institute of...
Discrimination bill still threatens rights, should be scrapped
"Labor Senators on the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee have today acknowledged that their own government's draft anti-discrimination legislation threatens free speech. Their recommendation that Section 19 (2)(b), which made it...
Dreyfus must abandon the anti-discrimination draft Bill
"Newly appointed Commonwealth Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus should abandon his predecessor's attempts to consolidate federal anti-discrimination law, and repeal s 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975," said Simon Breheny, Director, Legal...
Dams will facilitate Northern development
The Coalition's draft discussion paper on water management, reported in today's media, is a welcome recognition of the important role dams could play in revolutionising Northern Australia's economy, according to the Institute of Public Affairs....
Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the National Access Regime
Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the National Access Regime