Recent publications
Productivity commission shows Australia has high taxes on carbon emissions
PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION SHOWS AUSTRALIA HAS HIGH TAXES ON CARBON EMISSIONS "Australia is incurring more costs and bringing about a more CO2 abatement than any country outside of Europe. This is the result of the study into carbon emission policies...
Queensland the low tax state: the birth and death of an idea, and how to bring it back to life
Queensland the low tax state: the birth and death of an idea, and how to bring it back to life
Taxes on Queenslanders growing faster than in any other state
State government taxes are growing faster in Queensland than in any other state according to a new report launched today by the free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs. According to the report the tax take has grown in Queensland...
International warning to Australia on looming iron ore price threat
A new report this week from prestigious international journal The Economist has warned that Australia's current iron ore prices are at risk from competition with Brazil and Africa. Responding to the report Hugh Tobin, Director of the North...
Volume 63 Number 2
James Paterson on Tim Flannery the climate prophet, Tom Switzer on the ALP's identity crisis, Julie Novak on the showdown in Wisconsin, Richard Allsop on taxi deregulation, Louise Staley on the nanny state, and much much more...
Greens call to ban new coal mines would be catastrophic
Free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, today warned that the Greens call to ban new coal mines would be catastrophic for Northern Australia and would sound the death knell for any serious proposal to economically develop the...
Innovating Indonesian Investment Regulation: the need for further reform
Considering Indonesia's continued economic resilience during and following the global financial crisis the economic outlook for the archipelago should be rosy. Recent data from the government's statistics agency showed economic growth in the first...
Greens Greg Barber refuses to rule out $500 carbon tax
Joy 94.9'S Rainbow Report @ 12.49pm, Friday 20th May 2011 Rainbow Report host, Doug Pollard: On the line we have Greg Barber who is one of the elected Greens in the Upper House of the Victorian State Parliament representing the northern...
60% think Canberra is out of touch with Northern Australia
In a landmark Galaxy poll conducted exclusively for Australia's leading free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, 60% of Australians have said that Canberra decision makers do not understand the needs of families and businesses...
Resource boom not assured
Free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, today warned that the federal government was wrong to assume that it could continue to pocket the benefits of the mining boom without giving anything back to the industry. Institute of...