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From: John Roskam Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2013 5:19 PM To: IPA members Subject: Announcement to IPA members - former High Court judge, Ian Callinan AC QC to advise IPA on media laws Dear IPA member, I'm writing to let all Institute of Public...
IPA condemns attack on right to silence
"Moves by the New South Wales government to remove the right to silence in the state are an outrageous attack on fundamental legal rights," said Simon Breheny, director of the Legal Rights Project at free market think tank the Institute of Public...
IPA welcomes dumping of media laws
"The Gillard government's decision to abandon its proposal to regulate the media is a victory for freedom of speech in Australia," said Chris Berg, director of policy at free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. "The media regulation...
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...