Australia's loudest voice for freedom since 1943. Authorised by Scott Hargreaves, Institute of Public Affairs, Lvl 2/410 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000
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"Unemployed people are forced to spend more money... as punishment for Labor’s out-of-control spending."
IPA Research Fellow Saxon Davidson warns that the Labor government’s out-of-control spending and inflation are adding to the financial pressures facing Australians, as rising interest rates make household debt increasingly difficult to manage.
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#Inflation #Debt #Australia
“It really does matter to every single Australian.”
IPA Research Fellow Margaret Chambers warns that Labor’s Digital Duty of Care could affect what Australians see online, urging people to follow the debate and stay informed.
📲 Stay informed, follow the IPA and support the fight for online freedom: bit.ly/4tnLlQk
#Censorship #Politics #Australia
“The next inflation shock might not be caused by government spending or the housing market.”
IPA Research Analyst Archer Holling warns that rising fuel and fertiliser costs could drive the next wave of inflation, with Australia’s reliance on overseas suppliers putting pressure on farmers and eventually supermarket prices.
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#Inflation #Farming #Australia
“When we keep fighting, we eventually get there in the end.”
IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild argues that institutions like the IPA and CPAC are essential to keeping important arguments alive, regardless of whether they’re popular.
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#Politics #Ideas #Australia
“Cutting public spending has rightly become one of the foremost demands of sensible people.”
IPA Senior Fellow Adam Creighton argues that political hypocrisy is undermining efforts to reduce government spending, with proposed savings on private health insurance rebates, veterans’ benefits and credit card fees blocked despite mounting public debt.
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#Economy #Spending #Australia
“The most radical mass-censorship legislation any Western government has proposed."
Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public and CBR Chair of Politics, says that Labor’s Digital Duty of Care would allow the government to operate fake online accounts to promote its own messaging while posing as ordinary citizens.
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#Censorship #Media #Australia
“This is absolutely an immigration policy that puts Australia first.”
In the latest episode of the Australia’s Future podcast, former PM Tony Abbott outlines a policy agenda focused on lower taxes, cheaper electricity and an enforceable Australian values test for longer-term visa holders.
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#Migration #Policy #Australia
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Thank you to @shellenberger for visiting Australia, courtesy of @TheIPA, to expose the Albanese government’s draconian digital duty of care laws which must be scrapped.
Not only is Anika Wells using the cloak of child safety to justify this assault on free speech, she was today caught out lying about sweeping powers in her bill which enable @eSafetyOffice to create fake ‘sock puppet’ accounts to track people covertly online.
As @News24Aust journalist Cameron Reddin correctly pointed out, there are no limits on the type of information which could be spread online by the government regulator using these powers.
Here is @AnikaWells brazenly lying about the fake accounts ("sock puppets") provision of the law:
She says, "Well, there is nowhere in the bill that gives the government, and by the government, in this instance, the independent regulator, that power. It's just not there."
Yes, it is there, as anyone who reads the bill can see. I'll paste it again below.
“It’s only for institutionalised journalists who are on the government’s payroll.”
Following yesterday’s Press Club address by Communications Minister Anika Wells, IPA Research Fellow Margaret Chambers explains why the revised Digital Duty of Care bill could leave podcasters and everyday Australians exposed to censorship.
#Censorship #Media #Australia
“We’ve gotten bigger, but we haven’t gotten better.”
IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild argues that the government’s mass migration policy has failed to lift living standards, with weak productivity and high job vacancies exposing a political migration program rather than an economic or skills-based one.
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#Migration #Economy #Australia
“It's a disproportionate, unjustifiable law that needs to be abandoned in full.”
Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public and CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship and Free Speech at the University of Austin Texas, speaks with IPA Senior Fellow Andrew Bushnell about why they believe the proposed Digital Duty of Care cannot be fixed with amendments.
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#Censorship #Law #Australia
“Rights don’t come from kings, parliaments, or courts. They pre-exist government, and come from God."
Judge Amul Thapar examines the principles underpinning American independence and the belief that government exists to protect rights, not grant them.
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#Liberty #Freedom #Australia
“This is the worst piece of anti-speech legislation to ever see the light of day.”
One Nation Senator Tyron Whitten condemns the Albanese government’s proposed Digital Duty of Care, crediting Michael Shellenberger and the Institute of Public Affairs for their work exposing the bill’s threat to free speech.
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#Censorship #Politics #Australia
“If we have better policy, we’ll have better outcomes.”
IPA Executive Director Scott Hargreaves argues that Australia’s economic problems are the result of policy choices, not circumstances beyond our control.
He points to former RBA Governor Philip Lowe’s comments on Adam Creighton’s IPA podcast, 'The Prosperity Question', as evidence that criticism of government spending is reaching a wider audience.
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#Politics #Inflation #Australia
“This is by far the worst censorship legislation we have seen in the West.”
Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public and CBR Chair of Politics, warns that the Albanese government’s proposed Digital Duty of Care could give the government sweeping censorship powers and allow it to operate unlimited fake social media accounts.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/46FPgi4
#Censorship #Politics #Australia
“The government doesn’t even seem to be honest about why they want this.”
Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public and CBR Chair of Politics, discusses his analysis of the Albanese government’s proposed Digital Duty of Care, drawing on work with the IPA to highlight concerns about government censorship and the use of fake social media accounts.
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#Censorship #Politics #Australia
“The Digital Duty of Care has nothing to do with saving the children.”
IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild warns that the Albanese government’s proposed Digital Duty of Care is an attempt to expand government control of free speech and open debate in Australia.
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#FreeSpeech #Censorship #Australia
“Democracy doesn’t mean much without the ability to have a free and fair debate about the big issues that affect Australians.”
IPA Director of Research Morgan Begg questions how fair Australia’s public debate can be when progressive taxpayer-funded advocacy groups receive billions of dollars to promote their policy agendas.
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#Democracy #FreeSpeech #Australia
“It’s looking catastrophic for the Labor Party.”
IPA Chief Economist Adam Creighton examines the pressure facing Labor amid poor polling, policy disputes and speculation about Andrew Charlton’s growing prominence within the party.
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#Labor #Economy #Australia
“Australia’s relatively modest fiscal problems won’t insulate it from a global public debt crisis.”
IPA Chief Economist Adam Creighton warns that rising global borrowing costs could expose Australian taxpayers to mounting interest bills and the fallout from a global debt crisis.
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#Government #Economy #Australia
