Recent publications in IPA Review article

Nanny state is a poor guide to policy design

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Mary Jo Fisher

Living in a first world country, Australians are entitled to expect their governments to support the delivery of basic services and amenities-for a price. But now Australians are being told by state and federal governments that no matter the...

Building the Australian Nanny State

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Christopher Murn

Free bibs Victorian Deputy Premier Rob Hulls has announced an additional $35,000 of funding for Auskick programs to provide bibs and waist bags to identify volunteers who had met working with children checks. V-chip for Australia The Senate...

What has happened to modern art

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Ben Hourigan

Photographs of naked thirteen-year-old girls, crucifixes immersed in urine, and videos of chickens being decapitated: this is modern art. So you'd think, at least, if you went by what gets the most attention in the news, and never visited art...

Rudd's summit misses the point of policy

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Wolfgang Kasper

Kevin Rudd's government was inspired early into its term to call upon Australia's ‘one-thousand most intelligent people' to nominate themselves to be invited to a talkfest in Canberra to harvest ideas. Leading opposition politicians quickly...

Baby bonus rise bad for babies

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Louise Staley

Sometimes a policy is so irredeemably bad that nothing short of abolition is the appropriate course. Unfortunately, sometimes the awful policy is a political superstar, beloved by all but the worst curmudgeon. The baby bonus is such a policy. Set...

Preparing for the baby cull

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Richard Allsop

Global warming is bringing out the usual suspects who will use any alleged threat to humanity's existence to argue that the world would be a better place with less humans living on it. Having a degree in any branch of science seems to especially...