Recent publications
Business Bearing The Burden - State Tax Report 2010
The Institute of Public Affairs State Business Tax Calculator calculates the level of state and territory government taxes on business.
State Tax Fact Sheet 2010
The IPA State Business Tax Calculator (SBTC) is a quantitative model that measures the tax imposed on business by state and territory governments.
Too much choice?
The ideas behind free markets have never been universally popular or without critics. Even those within the broad capitalist tradition have frequently questioned whether individuals were truly best placed to make decisions in their own interests....
Submission to the Senate inquiry into Competition within the Australian Banking Sector
Submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Scrutiny of New Taxes: Minerals Taxes & Carbon Taxes
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...
Kevin Rudd's darkest days
Kevin Rudd spent a fair amount of his intellectual capacity drubbing Friedrich von Hayek. Two major speeches given to the Centre for Independent Studies put the boot into Hayek who had also featured prominently in Ruddite essays deploring free...
Economists as social engineers
In this paper, I make the argument that modern "mainstream" economic thought is inclined towards government intervention and social engineering. To the extent that economic analysis is seen simply as a tool it is likely that economists will...
Green Excuses: Collusion to promote protectionism?
The trade of forestry products on international markets is becoming increasingly controversial. For years environmental groups have been claiming that there is mass deforestation and illegal logging occurring in the developing world to create...
Exposed: The Inaccurate and Inappropriate Campaign by Zoos Victoria
Zoos Victoria is constituted by the State of Victoria under the Zoological Parks and Gardens Act 1995 and is responsible to Environment Minister, Gavin Jennings. Last year, Zoos Victoria received $14.6 million of taxpayer funds. One of the...