What’s worse than a lockdown?
‘Worse than lockdown’ is a headline that has been used far too often in the media recently. That’s right, while most…
The ABC’s vibe needs correcting
Without even having listened to the IPA’s documentary podcast Their ABC, ABC board member Joe Gersh criticised the podcast but…
Their ABC: no so trusted anymore
The ABC is in the headlines on almost a weekly basis for issues of its own making. The crises keep…
EXCLUSIVE: New polling shows strong belief media Covid coverage has been alarmist
Covid-19 is addictive, not just for the political class but for Australia’s mainstream media. At the beginning of the pandemic,…
Maladjusted
Malcolm Turnbull’s worst critic is... Malcolm Turnbull
The trust fund kids of the Guardian: too slack to even compile their own hit list
On January 21 and 22. the Institute of Public Affairs received correspondence about a planned register of think-tanks in Australia…
Why is the Coalition planning to give more money to the ABC?
Given the spite and the scorn with which many at the national broadcaster view the Coalition and mainstream Australians, one…
A day at the ABC
Charter, what Charter?
The ABC has just moved further from the mainstream
Perhaps the staff at the ABC voted themselves a pay rise so they could donate the extra money to the…
EXCLUSIVE: Information Commissioner to investigate SBS over deleted bushfires article
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has looked at the Institute of Public Affairs’ submission and decided to commence…
Revealed: ABC climate activism exposed by IPA FOI requests
As reported by Chris Kenny in The Australian today, over 300 pages of Freedom of Information documents obtained by free-market…
The Heretic: inside Peter Ridd’s fight for freedom of speech on climate change
‘The Heretic: Inside Peter Ridd’s fight for freedom of speech on Climate Change’ is a new serialised documentary podcast by…
Amazing but true: you can get an apology from the ABC
On the 6th of April, 2020, ABC Radio Melbourne Drive with Nicole Chvastek interviewed infectious diseases expert Mark Pellegrini from…
Media Watch watch
On Monday, Paul Barry on Media Watch covered a new poll by the Institute of Public Affairs released last week. Reported in news.com.au it…
We need a full public inquiry into Labor and the pen-pushers’ CPAC outrage
As revealed in The Australian today, a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Institute of Public Affairs has revealed…
Labor’s childcare splash: for our kids – or their union mates?
Last weekend Labor announced a $4 billion funding increase to childcare subsidies. More worryingly, Labor would also intervene to raise…
Silencing Milo
The decision by the Federal Government Minister for Immigration to deny provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos a visa to enter Australia is…
The ABC threatens media diversity, not Fairfax/Nine
Yesterday Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment announced that they will merge, forming a media organisation worth $4.2 billion. The new…
The republican suicide squad
When Bill Shorten gave the keynote address the Australian Republican Movement annual dinner last month, Peter Fitzsimons gushed at how…
Pedestrian signals, pedestrian thinking
Today it was revealed by the Herald Sun that the Committee of Melbourne in conjunction with VicRoads are installing 10…
Why I joined — and quit — the Australian Republican Movement
As a long-time republican, I made the decision last year to join the Australian Republican Movement. Having spent the better…
Annastacia Palaszczuk and the latest city-country divide
Nothing reveals the clear divide between inner city and regional Queensland than the long, tumultuous history of land clearing. The…
