Archived publication for December 2009
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State Business Tax Calculator - Fact Sheets - 2009
The IPA State Business Tax Calculator (SBTC) is a quantitative model that measures the tax imposed on business by state governments. The latest information on tax rates and structures (as at 31 December 2009) are used to calculate tax liabilities.
Business Bearing the Burden 2009
The IPA State Business Tax Calculator calculates the level of state government taxes on business in each of the six Australian states. The IPA analysis reveals: South Australia has the highest taxes on business, while Western Australia has the...
Editorial, December 2009
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...
Liberty and the seven seas
Would you believe that some of the earliest examples of the separation of powers preceded the foundation of American government, but originated on the high seas? Or that emancipation of African slaves was led by Long John Silver, not Abraham...
Fictional Bias
There is a very real and very pervasive left-wing bias amongst the majority of authors busily churning out product to stock the shelves of your local bookstore. This phenomenon is most readily visible within the non-fiction political sections,...
Climategate: What we've learned so far
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...
Volume 61 Number 3
Chris Berg and Sinclair Davidson on what we've learned so far about climategate; Richard Allsop on Western Civilisation; Louise Staley on Food Innovation; Christopher Pyne on Question Time; Michael MacConnell on bias in popular fiction; David...
Liberty Sessions | The Vote Motive
Julie Novak, Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, speaks about Gordon Tullock's public choice theory essay 'The Vote Motive'.
Liberty Sessions | For Good And Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
Tim Wilson, Director of the Climate and Trade Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs, speaks about Charles Adams' 'For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization'.
Risks and Opportunities of the Climate Change Policy
John Roskam, Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. Risks and Opportunities of the Climate Change Policy