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Tim Wilson resigns from the IPA to become Australia's Human Rights Commissioner in Dec 2013.
- is an Emeritus Fellow at the IPA
Michael Nahan was a Senior Fellow at the IPA until 2007
Researcher for the IPA.
Also the son of Andrew Bolt
Who's Partner is
John Roskam has led the IPA since 2005. Before that he worked as the chief of staff to Howard Government education minister David Kemp. He’s also served as an advisor to Victorian Liberal minister Don Hayward, and used to head up the Menzies Centre – a government-funded Liberal think tank.
The IPA
The Abbott government has installed the conservative commentator Janet Albrechtsen and the former Liberal politician Neil Brown to the nomination panel that appoints board members to the ABC and the SBS.
IPA Wish List
1. Repeal the carbon tax, and don't replace it. It will be one thing to remove the burden of the carbon tax from the Australian economy. But if it is just replaced by another costly scheme, most of the benefits will be undone.
2. Abolish the Department of Climate Change.
3. Abolish the Clean Energy Fund.
4. Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
5. Abandon Australia's bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
6. Repeal the renewable energy target.
7. Return income taxing powers to the states.
8. Abolish the Commonwealth Grants Commission.
9. Abolish the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
10. Withdraw the Kyoto Protocol.
11. Introduce fee competition to Australian universities.
12. Repeal the National Curriculum.
13. Introduce competing private secondary school curriculums.
14. ABolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
15. Eliminate laws that require radio and television broadcasters to be 'balanced'.
16. Abolish television spectrum licensing and devolve spectrum management to the common law.
17. End local content requirements for Australian television stations.
18. Eliminate family tax benefits.
19. Abandon the paid parental leave scheme.
20. Means-test Medicare.
21. End all corporate welfare and subsidies by closing the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.
22. Introduce voluntary voting.
23. End mandatory disclosures on political donations.
24. End media blackout in final days of election campaigns.
25. End public funding to political parties.
26. Remove anti-dumping laws.
27. Eliminate media ownership restrictions.
28. Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board.
29. Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency.
30. Cease subsidising the car industry.
31. Formalise a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction.
32. Rule out federal funding for 2018 Commonwealth Games.
33. Dregulate the parallel importation of books.
34. End preferences for Industry Super Funds in workplace relations laws.
35. Legislate a cap on government spending and tax as a precentage of GDP.
36. Legislate a balanced budget amendment which strictly limits the size of budget deficits and the period the federal government can be in deficit.
37. Force government agencies to put all of their spending online in a searchable database.
38. Repeal plain packaging for cigarettes and rule it out for all other products, including alcohol and fast food.
39. Reintroduce voluntary student unionism at universities.
40. Introduce a voucher scheme for secondary schools.
41. Repeal the alcopops tax.
42. Introduce a special economic zone in the north of Australia including:
(a) Lower personal income tax for residents.
(b) Significantly expanded 457 Visa programs for workers.
(c) Encourage the construction of dams.
43. Repeal the mining tax.
44. Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states.
45. Introduce a single rate of income tax with a generous tax-free threshold.
46. Cut company tax to an internationally competitive rate of 25 per cent.
47. Cease funding the Australia Network.
46. Privatise Australia Post.
49. Privatise Medibank.
50. Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function.
51. Privatise SBS.
52. Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784.
53. Repeal the Fair Work Act.
54. Allow individuals and employers to negotiate directly terms of employment that suit them.
55. Encourage independent contracting by overturning new regulations designed to punish contractors.
56. Abolish the Baby Bonus.
57. Abolish the First Home Owners' Grant.
58. Allow the Northern Territory to become a state.
59. Halve the size of the Coalition front bench from 32 to 16.
60. Remove all remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade.
61. Slash top public servant salaries to much lower international standards, like in the United States.
62. End all public subsidies to sport and the arts.
63. Privatise the Australian Institute of Sport.
64. End all hidden protectionist measures, such as preferences for local
manufacturers in government tendering.
65. Abolish the Office for Film and Literature Classification.
66. Rule out any government-supported or mandated internet censorship.
67. Means test tertiary student loans.
68. Allow people to opt out of superannuation in exchange for promising to forgo any government income support in retirement.
69. Immediately halt construction of the National Broadband Network and privatise any sections that have already been built.
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End all government funded Nanny State advertising.
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Reject proposals for compulsory food and alcohol labelling.
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Privatise the CSIRO.
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Defund Harmony Day.
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Close the Office for Youth.
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Privatise the Snowy-Hydro Scheme.
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Have State Premiers appoint High Court justices.
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Allow ministers to be appointed from outside parliament.
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Extend the GST to cover all goods and services but return all extra revenue to taxpayers through cutting other taxes.
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Abolish the federal department of health and return health policy to the states.
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Abolish the federal department of education and return education policy to the states.
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Repeal any new mandatory data retention laws.
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Abolish the Australian Human Rights Commission.
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Have trade unions regulated like public companies, with ASIC responsible for their oversight.
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End all public funding to unions and employer associations.
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Repeal laws which protect unions from competitions, such as the 'conveniently belong' rules in the Fair Work Act.
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Extend unrestricted work visas currently granted to New Zealand citizens to citizens of the United States.
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Negotiate and sign free trade agreements with Australia's largest trading partners, including China, India, Japan and South Korea.
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Restore fundamental legal rights to all existing commonwealth legislation such as the right to silence and the presumption of innocence.
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Adhere to section 51 (xxxi) of the Constitution by not taking or diminishing anyone's property without proper compensation.
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Repeal legislative restrictions on the use of nuclear power.
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Allow full competition on all foreign air routes.
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Abolish the Medicare levy surcharge.
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Abolish the luxury car tax.
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Halve the number of days parliament sits to reduce the amount of legislation passed.
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Abolish Tourism Australia and cease subsidising the tourism industry.
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Make all government payments to external parties publicly available including the terms and conditions of those payments.
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Abandon plans to restrict foreign investment in Australia's agricultural industry.
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Cease the practice of setting up government funded lobby groups, such as YouMeUnity, which uses taxpayer funds to campaign to change the Australian Constitution.
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Rule out the introduction of mandatory precommitment for electronic gaming machines.
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Abolish the four pillars policy which prevents Australia's major banks from merging.
The following is largely from the web site http://ipa-wishlist.com/
Janet gives Tim positive media coverage.
Anniessa Putri has come from the WA branch of the Liberal Party, where she was the Assistant Accountant.
James worked for Victorian Liberal Senator Mitch Fifield
Former IPA Director of Finance and Operations, Tony Barry, also worked as a press secretary for Liberal frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull. He went on to join the Alliance of Australian Retailers
Other Think Tanks.
The Menzies Research Centre
The Menzies Centre has (does?) receive funding from the Federal Government. In 2004/2005 they received $100,000.
In 2004/2005 The Menzies Centre donated $30,179 to the Liberal Party.
Between 1998/9 to 2004/5 the Centre had donated $327,000 to the Liberal Party.
Their latest effort, a book claiming to bring " together the
biggest names in the climate change debate". Alarm bells should start
ringing about now!
Contributors:
Bob Carter. Has stated that "he receives no research funding from
special interest organisations such as environmental groups, energy
companies or government departments." However leaked documents have
revealed he (has) recieves $1,667 from the Heartland Institute for his
climate denial work. Heartland is a well known right wing think tank in the USA
well known for their anti-Climate Change propaganda. They recieve donations
from fossil fuel companies for Climate Change denial activites. See Exxon..
Carter also sits on the research committee of the Institute of Public Affairs,
a think tank that has received funding from oil and tobacco companies.
Alan Moran.
Part of the IPA propaganda machine.
"Think Tanks"
The IPA - Institute of Public Affairs
The IPA is a far right wing Think Tank funded by industry, largely fossil fuel and mining. They consistently promote an anti-climate change point of view and other far-right-wing agendas. See their wish list below. Make no mistake, this is about increasing profits for their supporters, their ideological view being that there should be minimum government and minimum government intervention in business. ie: to increase profits. Sure they may not believe in Anthropogenic Climate Change but what drives them is not that.
Again by creating doubt they delay action and thus continue to profit financially. The costs don't magically disappear, you get to pay later this century.
Links to other sites regarding IPA:
IPA widh list:- http://ipa-wishlist.com/the-list
Other Think Tanks involved with the seeding doubt in the community about Climate Change.
Heartland Institute (USA). Funded by corporations and the rich, such as the Koch brothers. For a summary, go to Sourcewatch description.
The Galileo movement (Melb, Australia). Sourcewatch review.
Investigation into Exxon showing links to USA think tanks:- http://www.exxonsecrets.org/index.php?mapid=2707
Liberal Party connections
Related pages:
Corporations use free trade agreements and
Political donations to increase profits and power.
They donate to Think Tanks to promote this agenda.