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25.01.2022 "For every 26 private sector jobs lost since March, 1 new public sector job has been added." Evan Mulholland spoke about our new report showing elimination strategy will cost Australia $319 billion on 7 News yesterday.

24.01.2022 "Here is the thing: The ABC cannot be redeemed. It does not take on, or even ever recognise, constructive criticism. It has stable funding already. That is the problem." IPA Adjunct Fellow Professor Sinclair Davidson dismantled ABC Board Member Joe Gersh's article in The Australian today.

24.01.2022 Rowan Dean explains who the real victims are of the HR takeover of the corporate world. Watch the full episode of CounterCulture here: http://ow.ly/yPI250Eq43I

24.01.2022 "Perhaps ABC staff simply think they are better and more deserving of a pay rise than mainstream Australians who are self-employed or work for small businesses." Evan Mulholland in The Spectator Australia.

24.01.2022 "It was their chance to show that we're all in this together and this is proof that they're completely detached from mainstream Australia." Evan Mulhollland and Daniel Wild react to ABC staff voting against deferring a 2% pay rise as the rest of the nation suffers.

23.01.2022 "We’ve seen decades of public sector and public sector unions that have focused more on pay rises...and not actually focused on specific things like IT upgrades that would’ve helped with the contact tracing system so they didn’t have to use a fax machine." Listen to this week's Young IPA Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube.

23.01.2022 "Sydney City Council is governing on behalf of a minority of Sydneysiders who believe that climate protesters should be given precedence over other uses of the public space." Dr Bella d'Abrera spoke to The Daily Telegraph.

23.01.2022 "In our institutions in particular, the support or the idea of civic civil liberties is built on very fragile ground. And the speed with which that were completely discarded was frankly shocking." Listen to this week's Looking Forward Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube.

23.01.2022 Melbourne is spending their first weekend out of Stage 4 Lockdown, but is this nightmare over? Watch the full episode of The IPA With You on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM4U9Am2VOQ

23.01.2022 IR reform is desperately needed, but is there a party in Australia that is up to the job? Listen to this week's episode of The Looking Forward Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com//the-looking-forwa/id1450118567

22.01.2022 Compulsory voting is holding Australian politics back. Listen to Evan Mulholland on this week's episode of The Looking Forward Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com//the-looking-forwa/id1450118567

21.01.2022 This is exactly what the government should be doing. Cutting red tape will be vital to creating businesses and jobs as Australia emerges from the COVID-19 lockdowns." Daniel Wild on The Hon Ben Morton MP's speech to the Business Council of Australia.

21.01.2022 Dr Bella d'Abrera joined ABC Radio National to warn about the dangers of cancel culture. Do you feel people are too scared to speak their mind?

21.01.2022 Hit children's TV show Bluey has been criticised in ABC Everyday for not being diversity. As Evan says, "Seriously, it's a dog." Read more here: http://ow.ly/h7HL50EpY8o

20.01.2022 Staff members at our national broadcaster now consider themselves morally superior and more worthy of a two per cent pay rise than staff at Services Australia, Centrelink, the Department of Health and the Department of Social Services, who have all been on the front line of the response to this pandemic, and have all taken a six month pay freeze. Evan Mulholland's comments were featured in The Daily Telegraph.

20.01.2022 "Love/Thoms illustrates the problem of judicial activism observed in the legal establishment in the US in 1982 and which can still be seen in Australia today. Whether Australia can chart a similar path for a conservative counterrevolution remains to be seen. What is not in doubt is that something must be done if we are to maintain the principle of equality before the law." Morgan Begg in the most recent edition of the IPA Review, our exclusive magazine for IPA Members. This article is now available on our website.

20.01.2022 International bestselling author Mark Steyn will be joining John Roskam for an Exclusive Town Hall Talk for IPA Members on 13 October. Members who have been to an IPA event with Mark Steyn know how intelligent, engaging and funny he is. This event is simply unmissable. This Town Hall Talk is free and exclusive for IPA Members. If you know someone who would love to join this conversation, they can sign up as an IPA Member today here: https://ipa.org.au/join

19.01.2022 "Who needs a 21 gun salute when you have a 2 cannon salute?" Listen to this week's Young IPA Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube.

19.01.2022 These appointments are only slightly less significant than Donald Trump’s appointments to the US Supreme Court." John Roskam reacted to the new High Court appointments in comments featured on the front page of The Australian.

19.01.2022 Have you been told Venezuela used to be the wealthiest country in South America? Then the socialists took over. Now it's the poorest. To find out more about what you weren't told about socialism (and free markets), watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUIxuJVsNU0 To join Generation Liberty click here: https://generationliberty.org.au/join/

18.01.2022 "This campaign by Kevin Rudd and this idea of a petition comes from this very elite mindset." The IPA's Evan Mulholland joins The Young IPA Podcast this week, available wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. Apple podcasts available here: https://podcasts.apple.com//the-young-ipa-pod/id1213208653

18.01.2022 "The average person on the street...is movable, is open-minded." Listen to this week's Young IPA Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube.

18.01.2022 The funniest thing about the ABC is that all the talk about diversity and inclusion they mean skin-deep things. But when it comes to diversity of thought, of opinion, of perspective that’s absolutely nowhere to be found." Watch Gideon Rozner's appearance on The Kenny Report.

17.01.2022 Victoria has been electrified by the prospect that politicians and public servants from the Premier down could be charged and even jailed for deaths attributable to the Hotel Quarantine fiasco, under tendentious new industrial manslaughter laws only recently enacted by the Andrews Government. Governments must be held to account, but is this the job of the courts, or Parliaments and voters? If we start jailing politicians for incompetence, where will it end? (33:25-44:59). Sco...tt Hargreaves and Chris Berg are joined by Research Fellow Morgan Begg to discuss this and also the litany of civil rights violations justified in the name of pandemic. Where have been the institutions meant to defend our freedoms, and what precedent does this rampant State create for our future? (1:50-17:59). The latest concern in Victoria is an Omnibus Bill, allowing government appointed ‘authorised officers’ to arrest and detain individuals just on the suspicion of intent to break rules. Is this necessary or just a left-wing Government’s adaption the Police State/‘law and order’ playbook formerly used by the right? (18:00-33:25). Culture picks this week include the new Netflix film, Enola Holmes by Harry Bradbeer; Karl Ove Knausgaard’s book on Edvard Munch, So Much Longing in So Little Space; and a Netflix documentary by Jeff Orlowski, The Social Dilemma (44:59-1:04:55).

17.01.2022 Read Professor Aynsley Kellow's chapter in Climate Change: The Facts 2020 by ordering your copy here: https://climatechangethefacts.org.au/

16.01.2022 Dr Howard Brady is one of the magnificent contributors to the IPA's new book, Climate Change: The Facts 2020. Other contributors include Professor Richard Lindzen, Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Jo Nova, Dr Peter Ridd, and Dr Roy Spencer. Order your copy here: https://climatechangethefacts.org.au/

15.01.2022 "I've always said as political performers go, Dan is one of the best. But even he can only defy political gravity for so long. It's all catching up with him." Watch The IPA With You on YouTube, or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

14.01.2022 "Labor’s push for a so-called federal anti-corruption body would be an undemocratic and illiberal forum for legalised defamation to be weaponised against political opponents." Morgan Begg in The Australian.

14.01.2022 "In the case of ‘climate change’ there is a trillion-dollar climateindustrial complex supporting a sophisticated research program generating ‘facts’ that cannot be questioned." To read IPA Senior Fellow Dr Jennifer Marohasy in Climate Change: The Facts 2020, order your copy here: https://climatechangethefacts.org.au/

14.01.2022 "In progressivism it’s the gesture that’s more important than actual governing. As long as you support the right causes, and you have the right amount of emotion when you support the right causes, it doesn’t actually matter how you govern." Listen to this week's Young IPA Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com//the-young-ipa-pod/id1213208653

13.01.2022 "It creates a terrible incentive and doesn't get you anywhere. And whereas civil liability actually gives you the opportunity for the state collectively to be punished for its actions. They should be liable." Listen to this week's Looking Forward Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube.

12.01.2022 It’s time to come out and say it - Lockdowns do not work. That’s just one finding from our research paper released this week, Medical Capacity: An Alternative to Lockdowns, by IPA Associate Asher Judah and Director of Research Daniel Wild. We talk to one of the report’s authors, Asher Judah, who explains why the government has gone from trying to ‘flatten the curve’ to pursuing a de facto elimination strategy, and sensible alternatives to lockdowns.... Read the full report here: https://ipa.org.au//modelling-finds-covid-elimination-stra

12.01.2022 Governments should continue to look for ways to safely reduce incarceration by reforming punishment for non-violent offenders and expanding work and training options for offenders. Andrew Bushnell spoke to The Australian.

12.01.2022 "Rudd thinks an independent media organisation that people can decide for themselves if they wish to consume is 'a cancer on democracy'. But the state media organisation that we are forced to pay for, covered for a tyrannical government in Victoria, and uses the power of the state to tell us how wrong most of us are, is hailed as independent, objective, and balanced. I think this is what the signatories of the anti-Murdoch petition would call gaslighting."... Peter Gregory in The Spectator Australia.

11.01.2022 This is the type of visionary leadership from Ben Morton that Australia requires during this private sector, small business recession. The Morrison government should be commended on its efforts to close the gap between the two Australias. Read more from Cian Hussey.

11.01.2022 If Kevin Rudd is concerned about media censorship, where is his outrage at Twitter? Listen to this week's Young IPA Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com//the-young-ipa-pod/id1213208653

10.01.2022 "These Premiers are going to bankrupt Australia. They have all of the power but none of the economic responsibility." Evan Mulholland slams Premiers that immediately closed their borders to South Australia on Paul Murray Live.

10.01.2022 "Australia has spent $1 trillion just keeping the lights on." Listen to this week's Looking Forward Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com//the-looking-forwa/id1450118567

09.01.2022 Scott Morrison’s mid-year plan for a COVIDSafe economy is back on track having been derailed by Victorian bungling, but with vaccines uncertain and international borders closed, what is the outlook for Australia’s coronavirus Endgame? Can services like education and tourism ever rejoin king coal and iron ore as the foundations of our prosperity, at least any time soon? Why would any business invest when Governments can shut you down at any time? Scott and Chris are joined by... Andrew Bushnell to answer those questions and also focus on our first COVID State election in Queensland, which also looks like a post-economics election, with ballooning debt and public service payrolls barely even mentioned (except by the IPA!). It’s the clerisy’s business model at work And the other election coming up is in the USA - and it seems Trump’s comeback has made it once again too close to call (except by the panellists). The call is made on Florida and the Latino vote. Both candidates played to their strengths and strategy but only one can be vindicated. Culture picks (53:28-1:05:43) look at streaming services La Révolution and the disappointing Brave New World, while the coverage of the AFL Grand Final gives Bushnell a chance to wax lyrical about Richmond FC.

09.01.2022 "This current generation of politicians has to be out of the way before there'd be any change, because they will never, ever admit that they overreacted at all." Listen to this week's Looking Forward Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com//the-looking-forwa/id1450118567

08.01.2022 The latest episode of CounterCulture is live! Wokeism is the next airborne disease we should all be worried about. Leftist culture seeks to kill every ounce of happiness that stands in its way, and #cancelculture being their weapon of choice. Watch the full episode here: http://ow.ly/DSw150Eq32B

08.01.2022 IPA Senior Fellow Dr Jennifer Marohasy is one of the magnificent contributors to the IPA's new book, Climate Change: The Facts 2020. Other contributors include Professor Richard Lindzen, Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Jo Nova, Dr Peter Ridd, and Dr Roy Spencer and many more! Order your copy here: https://climatechangethefacts.org.au/

08.01.2022 There is a huge section of the community that was once Labor’s traditional blue collar base that now feels alienated by a lot of the language that’s used by if not necessarily always the party leaders themselves, but certainly the people around them." Joe Hildebrand joins this week's episode of The Young IPA Podcast. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com//the-young-ipa-pod/id1213208653

07.01.2022 Gideon Rozner takes aim at sport stars that are happy to talk about any political issue - until it's to do with China. Watch the full episode of CounterCulture here: http://ow.ly/9dVT50Eq3KS

06.01.2022 Lockdowns do not work. Gideon Rozner and IPA Associate Asher Judah discuss the IPA's new report Medical Capacity: An Alternative to Lockdowns. Watch the full episode on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.... Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwBMd5x6bpE

05.01.2022 The allegations of serious war crimes by Australian special forces contained within the Brereton Inquiry report mean some change is necessary even as justice takes its course. But should Parliamentarians involve themselves more in Defence and military oversight, as Andrew Hastie MP suggests, or could this politicise the military and cast it into the culture wars? Could adverse findings about a ‘warrior culture’ lead to something useless in its place? And could a ‘black armba...nd’ view of our country and its military record imperil the venerated place of the Australian War Memorial in Australian life and remembrance? Co-hosts Scott Hargreaves and Chris Berg are joined by former Defence Department employee, Andrew Bushnell, for this discussion. They also revisit the omnishambles that is South Australia’s response to its ‘pizza box’ coronavirus cluster. What does the panic tell us about Governments’ capacity to manage science, public health and known unknowns? The panellists also discuss their culture picks, including the disappointing Hillbilly Elegy on Netflix, Gotham, the monumental history of New York’s early years, and Based on a True Story, the new and brilliant ‘memoir’ by SNL alumnus, Norm McDonald.

04.01.2022 "Just because somebody is on our own side, doesn't mean they are right." George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia charts his change from guerrilla socialist to one of the fiercest critics of communism in the 20th Century. Subscribe now to the Better Read Than Dead book club podcast discussion wherever you get your podcasts to listen to the full conversation on April 23. ... Follow Generation Liberty on Instagram to stay up to date! http://ow.ly/UDge50EpXFS

04.01.2022 "It's like starting the fire and then getting credit for being part of the firefighting team that had to put it all out." Evan Mulholland joins this week's Young IPA Podcast. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com//the-young-ipa-pod/id1213208653

04.01.2022 It’s been a long, tough road but it looks like Australia’s coronavirus nightmare is finally coming to an end. The grotesque apparatus of state coercion that is Australia’s coronavirus response is being dismantled. But while we may have some freedoms back, we have not been given justice. The villains who have done this to us still have their jobs and positions of power, as the victims rebuild their lives. Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9yMIux-JIPY

04.01.2022 Professor Aynsley Kellow is one of the magnificent contributors to the IPA's new book, Climate Change: The Facts 2020. Other contributors include Professor Richard Lindzen, Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Jo Nova, Dr Peter Ridd, and Dr Roy Spencer and many more! Order your copy here: https://climatechangethefacts.org.au/

03.01.2022 Have you been told eating 9/10ths of a banana exposes humans to the same radiation levels as living within 80 kilometres of a nuclear plant for a whole year? Or to produce Australia’s annual electricity, solar would require land the size of Cyprus, Hydro would require land the size of Vanuatu, and wind would require land the size of the Netherlands? Have you been told Nuclear would only need land the size of tiny Liechtenstein? Have you been told a golf ball sized amount o...f uranium could provide a lifetime’s amount of energy for the average Australian? The equivalent of 56 tanker trucks of natural gas, or a renewable battery as tall as 16 super skyscraper buildings placed one on top of the other? You’ll learn this and lots more in What I Wasn’t Told About Nuclear Energy the latest in Generation Liberty’s What I Wasn’t Told series, designed to give young people the information they aren’t told at school and university. To find out more, go to the Generation Liberty Facebook page, Instagram or you can find a full list of references for this video at https://generationliberty.org.au/what-i-wasnt-told-about-n/ Our previous What I Wasn’t Told videos have had over half a million views you can watch What I Wasn’t Told About Climate Change, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch, What I Wasn’t Told About Donald Trump, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch and What I Wasn’t Told About Socialism, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch Check out the Generation Liberty Facebook and Instagram pages at: https://www.facebook.com/generationlibertyipa/ and https://www.instagram.com/generationlibertyipa/?hl=en

02.01.2022 "Climate Change: The Facts 2020 which can be...described as a thinking sceptic’s guide to climate. The fourth in a high selling series by the IPA and the second edited by Marohasy, the book deals with a wide range of hot topics from bushfires to sea levels, polar bears, volcanoes and temperature records." Climate Change: The Facts 2020, available later this week, was covered in The Australian.

02.01.2022 "Lockdowns don't work. Let me say that again: Lockdowns do not work." Watch the latest episode of The IPA With You on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwBMd5x6bpE

02.01.2022 "There is a need for a critical mass of people to push back against [censorship] and for the culture to really change." Gideon Rozner on Paul Murray Live.

01.01.2022 To read Professor Aynsley Kellow's chapter in Climate Change: The Facts 2020, order your copy here: https://climatechangethefacts.org.au/

01.01.2022 After seven months, two lockdowns, 696,000 job losses, a $1.9 billion dollar decline in private sector wages, a 77 per cent rise in calls to Beyond Blue and 117 of those wretched press conferences, Melbourne is out of lockdown. But this is not over. We are still in a ‘state of emergency’, and many businesses will struggle to turn a profit with punitive patronage limits. We also talk to Sky News Melbourne Reporter Gabriella Power about the possibility that Victoria’s third-rate contact tracing system and why it may plunge us into a third lockdown.

01.01.2022 Did you know people living under free markets have life expectancy of 79.4 years, while people living in socialist economies have life expectancy of only 65.2 years? Or that as countries move from socialism to free markets the income of the poorest increases? Or that free markets have been the driving force behind a billion people lifting themselves out of poverty in the last 25 years? And the cause of the first fall in global income inequality since the Industrial Revolution...? For more, like the Generation Liberty Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/generationlibertyipa), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/generationlibertyipa/?hl=en), or check out all the references at https://generationliberty.org.au/what-i-wasn't-told-about-s

01.01.2022 Scott Hargreaves is one of the magnificent contributors to the IPA's new book, Climate Change: The Facts 2020. Other contributors include Professor Richard Lindzen, Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Jo Nova, Dr Peter Ridd, and Dr Roy Spencer and many more! Order your copy here: https://climatechangethefacts.org.au/