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2003 Economic Freedom of the World Just Released!

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IPA REVIEW


March 2004

December 2003

March 2004 edition (vol 56/1) hardcopy now available from major newsstands and the Melbourne office of the IPA

December 2003 edition (vol 55/4) includes articles on Green doom and gloom, science funding, our regular columnists and features, and much more...

 For details, please click here: Contents

 Available online now.
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Online Now!

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

 


 
Good News on Earth!

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

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New Publication!

Who Gets to Stay?

Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Unauthorised Arrivals in Australia


by Tess Rod & Ron Brunton


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Contents, Executive Summary and Ordering Details

 


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IPA Press Releases
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IPA Conference Materials

Papers and Presentations from the IPA's two recent and highly successful conferences on Climate Change and Bushfires are now available on the Web. To access them, please click below:

Climate Change

Bushfires

To access IPA's Submission on bushifres to the House of Representatives Committee, please click here

Latest News

New Backgrounders Available

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.

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Fighting Ignorance with Evidence

by Jennifer Marohasy

A Speech to AGM and Conference of Property Rights Australia
(Roma, 14 February 2004)

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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'.

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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


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IPA Makes Charities Bill Submission

The Institute of Public Affairs has made a detailed submisson to the Board of Taxation's Draft Charities Bill 2003. To download the Submission
(40K PDF file) please click here


IPA Awarded Commonwealth Contract

The Institute of Public Affairs has been awarded a contract with the Commonwealth Department of Family Services to undertake a research study entitled, "The Protocol: Managing Relations with NGOs...[more]


IPA ENVIRONMENT UNIT

Providing market-based, science-driven solutions to environmental problems

For more about the Unit, please click here

Click here for Received Evidence for Deterioration in Water Quality in the River Murray
by Jennifer Marohasy

Click here for Property Rights and the Great Barrier Reef
by Jennifer Marohasy

Click here for The Green Movement: Time to Get Serious
by Mike Nahan

Click here for IPA's Submission to the Productivity Commission's Inquiry into Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations
by Jim Hoggett


New Backgrounder Online

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

To download the PDF file [140k],
please click on the image or click: here


IPA Capacity to Manage Index:
Update---The Auto Industry

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.


Papers from the
IR/Trade Practices Seminar

The Last Frontier:
Making Industrial Relations Subject
to the Trade Practices Act

held on 22 May 2003 in Melbourne are now available.

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New Backgrounder Online

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.

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New Publication Online!

A new case study by Jennifer Marohasy and Gary Johns suggests that governments need to better scrutinize allegations of environmental harm and those who make them


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