Ideas & Liberty
Ideas & Liberty
The Institute of Public Affairs examines the philosophical and moral case for liberty. By situating current political, economic and social debate in the history of Australian and international liberalism, it is possible to shed new light on the questions of today. The Institute of Public Affairs approaches political debate firmly grounded with an appreciation of entrepeneurship, civil liberties, individual responsiblity and free markets.
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If it looks and smells like a campaign, then it's a campaign
When Prime Minister Julia Gillard told the National Press Club that she did not want to start "the nation's longest election campaign", the whole...
Date set: Gillard gets her gloves on
By announcing the election date, Prime Minister Julia Gillard is hoping to manoeuvre around Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's election strategy,...
PM's election call is hardly a boon for the business community
Julia Gillard has now confirmed what everyone already knew: there will be an election sometime in August or September this year. We now know the...
Hagel Means a Realist America
When Chuck Hagel appears before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday, he is likely to face tough questions about his past positions on...
The Orwell cult is way out of hand
Last Monday the left-wing magazine New Statesman declared it was "Orwell Week". How utterly shameless. George Orwell is no longer a journalist. He...
This doomsday endgame could last a long time
Earlier this month, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists counselled the leader of the free world about the apocalypse. ''Dear President Obama,''...
Tax exiles vote with their feet
In 1979 Kingsley Amis, author of Lucky Jim, wrote to a friend, the poet Philip Larkin. Amis's son Martin had just published his third novel....
Punish Greens fraudsters
The press release hoax by anti-coal activist Jonathan Moylan represents a new and insidious form of sabotage by green extremists against productive...
America fell off the fiscal cliff a long time ago. Now it's all about the landing
Karl Marx famously said history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce. After avoiding the ''fiscal cliff'' a fortnight ago, the US faces...
Seeing red - and Greens
If someone vandalised a windfarm, Greens leader Christine Milne might feel a bit different about the virtues of civil disobedience. Likewise if...
