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Victorian Election Kills Carbon Tax
The prospects of Australia having a carbon tax are now virtually zero following the Victorian state election according to John Roskam, the executive director of the free market think tank, Institute of Public Affairs. 'Rising electricity...
Newspoll findings show support for electoral reform
A Newspoll survey commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs has found that Australians have an appetite for substantial electoral reform. "The so?called ‘new paradigm' is an opportunity for our national leaders to embrace substantive...
Electricity prices skyrocket around Australia
Electricity prices in parts of Australia have increased at nearly four times the rate of inflation over the last 5 years according to new research released today. New analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data, by the free market think tank...
An opportunity to hit ‘Control + Alt + Delete’ on Government policies
The Institute of Public Affairs hopes that in changing leadership the Labor Party has effectively hit ‘Control + Alt + Delete' on important policies and issues that were mishandled by her predecessor, according to John Roskam, Executive...
Clock is ticking on Henry
Ken Henry seems to find the role of Secretary of the Treasury too constraining, and now is the time for him to offer his resignation, according to John Roskam, Executive Director of Australia's most influential think tank, the Institute of Public...
Budget a house of cards built on rubbery numbers
‘The Rudd government's third budget is a house of cards built on a series of heroic assumptions and ambitious projections', John Roskam, Executive Director of the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs said from the Federal...
Victoria 2010-11 state budget a missed opportunity for tax reform
The eleventh Victorian state budget handed down by the Bracks-Brumby governments is a lost opportunity to deliver genuine tax reductions to lock in future economic prosperity, according to free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs....
Henry Review - The Great Canberra Tax Grab
Henry Review - The Great Canberra Tax Grab The Henry Tax Review is a recipe for bigger and higher taxing government according to the free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs. According to Julie Novak, Research Fellow at the IPA, 'A...
Federal/State blame game to continue after Henry Review
Federal/State blame game to continue after Henry Review. Recommendations from the Henry Tax Review for states to abolish some of their own taxes, without giving states the power to raise revenue, are a recipe for the federal/state blame game to...
ETS backdown welcomed, Climate Change Department should be scrapped
The Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the Rudd Government's back down on the Emissions Trading Scheme. "The Rudd Government's decision to ‘suspend' the legislation is clearly a prelude to abandoning the proposal", said John Roskam,...