Recent publications in IPA Review article

Your child is a wuss

When Belgian Gardens, a Townsville state primary school, banned cartwheels and handstands in August, it ignited a media frenzy. But as bizarre as it is, the handstand ban is only one incidence of a widespread trend affecting all Australian...

Building the social convenant around social diversity

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Rick Brown

Rick Brown reviews The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society by Jonathan Sacks (Continuum, 2007, 272 pages) At ‘the end of history there are no serious ideological competitors left to liberal democracy.' So said Francis Fukuyama in...

Superannuation and MacBank as the zenith of the Australian nation

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Richard Allsop

Richard Allsop reviews Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's interrupted revolution by David Love (Scribe, 2008, 264 pages) According to David Love in his new book Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's interrupted revolution, Paul Keating and...

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...

The left needs to get social capital right, read IPA Review

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Louise Staley

‘Social capital' is the most important social theory idea over the past two decades. In opposition and now in government, the federal Labor Party has spent a lot of time talking about social capital. Labor believes that social capital is...

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...

20 years reveals gigantic strides in international trade

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Chris Berg

The politics of trade policy often obscures what should be an unambiguously positive story about the globalisation of the world economy. Goods which were previously produced on a single site are now produced in a virtual international factory-each...