Recent publications
Debate in Federal Parliament on the death of Mao Tse-Tung, 14 September 1976
This is an extract from Hansard on the occasion of the death of Mao Tse-Tung, who had died five days before, on September 9, 1976. Death of Chairman Mao Tse-tung Tuesday, 14 September 1976 Mr ACTING SPEAKER (Mr Lucock) took the chair at 2.15...
Australia's resource future
Australia's Resource Future: An Institute of Public Affairs Policy Paper By Julie Novak, IPA Research Fellow
Newspoll findings show support for electoral reform
A Newspoll survey commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs has found that Australians have an appetite for substantial electoral reform. "The so?called ‘new paradigm' is an opportunity for our national leaders to embrace substantive...
Sydney Heartland Conference 2010
Address to the Heartland Institute by Alan Moran.
Presentation to the AEF Conference
Alan Moran's presentation to the AEF Conference in Brisbane on 17 October 2010.
Electricity prices skyrocket around Australia
Electricity prices in parts of Australia have increased at nearly four times the rate of inflation over the last 5 years according to new research released today. New analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data, by the free market think tank...
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 post-hope Prime Minister
President Obama and former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd both catapulted to power principally by harnessing the politics of hope. But, as recent events have shown, in politics, hope can turn to hopeless pretty quickly. Politicians who try to tap into...
Inside the hermit kingdom
Sometimes it's the simplest things that cause the most brilliant epiphanies. Think Newton and the apple. Despite a lifetime of propaganda and indoctrination, for many North Koreans their view of the world can change almost overnight. For one...
Does more equal really mean all better?
The criticisms of market capitalism have changed over the past two centuries. The writings of Marx and Engels in the nineteenth century emphasised that the private ownership of the means of production benefited the bourgeoisie at the expense of...