Recent publications in IPA Review article
How land supply restrictions have locked young people out of the housing market
Adjusted for inflation, the price of houses in Australia has more than doubled (trebled in Sydney and Perth) over the past 30 years. How has this occurred? In a landmark address to the Housing Industry Association in July 2005, the Institute of...
Can regulation be reduced?
Numerically, Australia now has more regulations than at any time since federation. If we are to pare back government interference in the economy, we need to attack more than just the national income share of government, but also the regulatory web...
The Regulatory State's democracy problem
How the Panama Canal was built: A regulatory fable
The long First World War
John Roskam reviews The Great War by Les Carlyon (Macmillan Australia, 2006, 880 pages) History is usually about ‘what happened next'. Events are important, not only because they happened, but because they lead to something else. And so it...
Public transport debates: more substance, less gimmicks
Planning restraints: A plague on wealth and the democratic process
Economic planning is a term as archaic as phrases such as 'peoples' democracy' or 'proletarian justice'. Yet urban planning-and land planning generally-is flourishing and dominates the evolving structure of cities.
Heritage through property
Life in the Farce Lane: The steady creep of regulatory burdens
Politicians fear large scandals, not minute inconveniences. Yet regulation is built up from minutae.
Presuming Employer Guilt: The damaging state of work safety and compensation laws in Australia
In a major report the IPA has called for the urgent development of nationally consist OHS laws. In this context NSW OHS laws must be repealed.