Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: Australia Day Is A Day Of Celebration
See below for show notes: Former prime minister and IPA Distinguished Fellow Tony Abbott and IPA deputy executive director Daniel Wild discuss Tony's future in politics, the woke big businesses which want to cancel Australia Day, and the big tech censorship surrounding the voice to parliament. Find out [...]
Unifying An Immigrant Nation
The term integration has become a dirty word without a policy home. Yet the latest census results show we are the most ethnically diverse nation in the Western world, with half the population either born overseas or having an overseas-born parent. In the US, 13.6 per cent of people [...]
Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: The Voice Will Be An Activist Chamber Of Parliament
See below for show notes: Former prime minister and Distinguished Fellow of the IPA Tony Abbott and the IPA's deputy executive director Daniel Wild discuss how the voice to parliament could work in practice. Tony argues that the voice will inevitably be taken over by the activists from [...]
Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: The Future Of Victoria And Australia
See below for show notes: Former prime minister and Distinguished Fellow of the IPA Tony Abbott provides his analysis and insight into the Victorian election results. Tony, reflecting on his enormously successful time as opposition leader, argues that the job of opposition's is to oppose bad policy, and [...]
Reflections On The 2022 Election
The 2022 federal election ended eight and a half years of what was, in general, a mediocre Coalition government. I say 'in general' because the two years of Tony Abbott's prime ministership were the exception. Abbott promised to do three key things - 'axe the [carbon] tax', 'stop the [...]
Telling The Truth
'When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.' That's one of my favourite quotes from Thomas Sowell, the great American writer and thinker. Sowell grew up in segregated North Carolina, and then [...]
Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: National Service Could Unite Australia
See below for show notes: This week former prime minister and Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs Tony Abbott and the deputy executive director of the IPA Daniel Wild discuss whether some form of national service should be required of young Australians, and how this might [...]
Manning Clark’s History of Australia
Michael Cathcart (editor), 1989 Sitting down in his flat at Balliol College, Oxford, in October 1938, the drum beat of war growing louder across Europe, a twenty-three year old Manning Clark wrote an impassioned letter to his future wife, Dymphna. 'I feel certain that I can write [...]
Australia’s Future with Tony Abbott: The Road To 2025
See below for show notes: Former prime minister and Distinguished Fellow of the IPA Tony Abbott and the IPA's deputy executive director Daniel Wild discuss the the UK government chaos; the forthcoming federal budget and what it will mean for Australia; and the road ahead to the 2025 [...]