Recent publications in IPA Review article

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The market works

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Peter Gregory

‘If you are offered free fruit and vegetables at the market, you know they will be rotten. If you want fresh produce, then you have to pay for it.' This observation from a Kenyan mother describes in a nutshell why millions of parents in...

Education and federalism: the last line of defence

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Byron Hodkinson

One of federalism's great virtues is that it provides a means to smaller government. Demarcated power limits the spending excesses of individual governments and provides a check to overarching state authority. The politics of Australian federalism...

A real education revolution will need (yes, you guessed it...) vouchers

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Julie Novak

The big education talk started before the 2007 federal election. The opposition, led by Kevin Rudd, said in a discussion paper: ‘Australia needs nothing less than a revolution in education.' Certainly, since November 2007 the Rudd government...

Can free markets be as interesting as regulated markets?

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson reviews The Best Book on the Market: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Economyby Eamonn Butler (Capstone, 2008, 172 pages) Eamonn Butler has written a marvellous little book promot­ing the free market. The best book on...

The intellectual gap goes to university

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Sinclair Davidson

Following a campaign by the Australian Liberal Students Federation, a Senate committee is investigating the level of intellectual diversity at Australian universities. It is well-known that academia-and more often than not those who are university...

Fear of school profit holding quality back

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | John Roskam

In Australia, schools are operated either by the government or by not-for-profit private organisations. It is prohibited to run a school to make a financial profit. In the United States there is no such prohibition. And a recent study published by...

Fighting the last war: industrial relations in 2007

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Ken Phillips

Australian Education Union distorting the debate

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Sinclair Davidson

In defence of a liberal education

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Kevin Donnelly

Choosing and Reforming Schools

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Geoffrey Partington

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