The Institute of Public Affairs infuriates the Left. The IPA’s success in being the public face of centre-right thinking, even in Left bastions like Fairfax and the ABC, drives them to attack John Roskam’s outfit as a secretive Broederbond, so successfully has it played with their minds. Now, Roskam’s latest protégé Matthew Lesh’s first book, Democracy in a Divided Australia, takes a fresh and insightful look at who has the power in Australia and why.