Archived publication for 2005
Recent publications
Editorial, December 2005
Creative Destruction: How technology and innovation change the way we work and live for the better
The Death of Federalism?: Hal Clough Lecture 2005
The Australian federal system is at a crossroads. It needs to be reinvigorated or it will become a costly vestige of a noble but failed experiment.
Energy Efficiency Opportunities?: Submission to the Senate
At a time when the Government has just launched its Task Force to reduce the regulation on business, it is simultaneously introducing new measures like the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Bill which will needlessly intensify that regulation. It is...
Economic Freedom of the World: 2005 Annual Report
The Economic Freedom Network Index, which ranks 127 countries, is a joint venture involving sixty-eight research institutes in sixty-eight countries around the world. The Institute of Public Affairs is the Australian representative of the Network....
Volume 57 Number 3
John Roskam, Greg Melleuish and Jason Briant on conservatism, Christian Kerr on the government' reform fatigue, Mike Nahan on industrial relations and federalism, Chris Berg on mobile phones in airplanes, Ben Hourigan on conservative videogames...
Workplace Relations from Keating to Howard: The Case for Further Reform
The proposed workplace reforms are the third stage of a deliberate change that has been going on for 12 years now; an evolutionary process from compulsory arbitration to agreement making at the workplace level. This lecture, Workplace Relations...