Recent publications in Occasional Paper
Presentation to the AEF Conference
Alan Moran's presentation to the AEF Conference in Brisbane on 17 October 2010.
The Impact and Cost of Health Sector Regulation
Every Australian deserves the opportunity to access high quality health care services. Those services should improve quality of life while remaining affordable. Increasingly however, Australia's health system is bowing under the weight of a...
Economists as social engineers
In this paper, I make the argument that modern "mainstream" economic thought is inclined towards government intervention and social engineering. To the extent that economic analysis is seen simply as a tool it is likely that economists will...
Green Excuses: Collusion to promote protectionism?
The trade of forestry products on international markets is becoming increasingly controversial. For years environmental groups have been claiming that there is mass deforestation and illegal logging occurring in the developing world to create...
Exposed: The Inaccurate and Inappropriate Campaign by Zoos Victoria
Zoos Victoria is constituted by the State of Victoria under the Zoological Parks and Gardens Act 1995 and is responsible to Environment Minister, Gavin Jennings. Last year, Zoos Victoria received $14.6 million of taxpayer funds. One of the...
Forcing Prices Up
Grocery prices will always be controversial, especially when government policy is artificially inflating their price. The ACT government commissioned John Martin to complete a review into the ACT government's supermarkets competition policy....
The Resource Super Profits Tax and the 2010-11 Budget
A report into how the Henry Review and 2010/11 Budget will harm Australia's economic interests.
IPA Climate Change Polling
Climate change polling commissioned by the IPA.
Governing in ignorance: Australian governments legislating, without understanding, intellectual property
Monday, 26th of April 2010 is World Intellectual Property Day. Intellectual property is one of the most poorly understood areas of public policy, but also one of the most important to understand in a knowledge economy. Yet legislators regularly...
An open letter to all parliamentarians
A carbon emissions trading scheme as proposed by the federal government has enormous economic and social consequences. This was acknowledged by Penny Wong, the Minister for Climate Change who last year said that responding to global warming...