Archived publication for 2009
Recent publications
New world leaders and the politics of power
IPA Review | March 2009 In early 2008, David Cameron said he greatly admired Barack Obama and pledged to bring some of the same uplifting spirit of change and renewal that the American Democrat generated in the US to the British political scene....
Bailout Bonanza!
IPA Review | March 2009 Periods of economic turmoil have a habit of exposing weaknesses in policy, whether it is through inexperience, a lack of understanding, or a combination of these. Only a short twelve months ago, a newly elected Rudd...
Nixon as culture warrior
IPA Review | March 2009 Tom Switzer reviews Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein (Scribner, 2008, 881 pages) Richard Milhous Nixon was born into a modest, working-class Protestant family. He worked at...
Into the mind of Buffett
IPA Review | March 2009 Michael Potter reviews The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder (Bantam, 2008, 976 pages) Warren Buffett frequently seems to be in the right place at the right time. He invests in companies...
Obama's Presidency for Dummies
IPA Review | March 2009 Scott Hargreaves reviews Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, 2005, 944 pages) In selecting Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State President Obama has made history repeat itself. His historical...
Volume 61 Number 1
Chris Berg on keeping up with Kevin, Christian Kerr asks: where is our GasBuddy? Julie Novak on the Nanny State manifesto, Benjamin Hourigan on Ayn Rand and videogames, Alan Moran on emissions trading, Louise Staley on social capital, Richard...
A slave obeys, a player chooses
When you escaped, not long ago, from the burning wreckage of a passenger jet crashed in the middle of the Atlantic, you entered a lonely obelisk rising from the water. Inside that obelisk, a bathysphere waited to take you down to the art...
Free to gamble: The roles of the gambling industry and policy in a modern Australian society
Keeping up with Kevin: Kevin Rudd's testosterone technocracy
"From time to time in human history there occur events of a truly seismic significance, events that mark a turning point between one epoch and the next." If the Prime Minister's rhetoric is anything to go by, big things are brewing. He announced...
Swan should reduce, not increase, investment restrictions
‘During the middle of a global financial crisis, Wayne Swan should be loosening, not increasing, restrictions to investment capital into Australia', Director of the IP and Free Trade Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs, Tim Wilson, said...