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The latest edition of IPA's regular newsletter features Bjørn Lomborg's tour of Australia; news of our new Environment Unit; the HV McKay Lecture and Dinner; the NGO Project; IPA news, IPA activities, publications, forthcoming events and much more...
'Privatisation
in Australia'
Dr Alan Moran, Head of the Deregulation Unit at the IPA, reviews the fortunes of privatisation in Australia---both at the national level and on a State-by-State basis.
Published in the July issue of Privatisation International, the article is now available online (PDF only). For an HTML summary and details of how to download the document, please click here: Summary/Download
New Energy Forum Paper
Reforming
the Regulatory Arrangements for Gas Pipeline Networks
by Alan Moran
(Energy Forum Paper Number 27)
Available as a PDF file
only (160 K)
To download the paper, please click here: Energy
27
The most recent edition of IPA's 8-page digest of facts and indicators---social, economic, demographic and political---is devoted to showing just how wrong the Green doomsayers have been.
Hard copy available by subscription. Individual issues available from the Melbourne office.
For details of what's in the latest issue, please click here: Contents
Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Unauthorised Arrivals in Australia
by Tess Rod & Ron Brunton
Anti-American Biased
Collective:
Your ABC
and the Iraq War
by Tim Blair and James Morrow
Harvesting a wealth of material from ABC reporters and commentators, it finds the ABC's coverage of the Iraq war was negative, defeatist, anti-American and skewed heavily against the Australian government
For summary/ordering information and details of a bonus offer,
please click here
'A Casual Discussion'
IPA Work Reform Unit
Six quite different views on the costs and benefits of increasing casualization of the workforce.
For details, please click here
Myth & the Murray:
Measuring the Real State of the River Environment
by Dr Jennifer Marohasy
A data-rich 28-page Backgrounder which challenges the much-repeated claim that the Murray River is 'dying'.
For a summary and purchase details, please click here
For the associated press release, please click here.
Australian
Aid Policy:
A Case
of Lose/Lose, not Win/Win
by Peter Urban
Critically examines Australia's dismal aid policy---particulary with respect to PNG
For summary/ordering details, please click here
Property
Rights to Water
by Alan Moran
Argues for the pivotal role of property rights in water for dealing with issues arising from irrigation and environmental concerns
Following the success
of its first two reports, the IPA Work Reform Unit has now released
its third report on the constraints that EBAs can impose on the
capacity to manage---this time in the Automotive industry. Click
here for an overview of
the third report [50k PDF]
The full index is available by subscription only. For access to an overview and briefing documents, please click on the image or click here.
The
Good Reputation Index: A Tale of Two Strategies
by Gary Johns
An in-depth examination of the the Fairfax-published Good Reputation Index reveals that it is poorly administered, lacks objectivity and confuses reputation with performance.