ISIL Freedom Network: Australia, New Zealand and Oceania

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Queenslanders for Constitutional Monarchy
Source: Queenslanders for Constitutional Monarchy
City: Brisbane, Country: Australia
E-mail: queenslanders@hotmail.com

Defends against an attempt by "socialist republicans" to remove protections afforded by Australia's Constitutional Monarchy.

Prebble's Rebels
Source: Will de Cleene
Country: New Zealand
E-mail: info@voteact.org.nz

A non-partisan association of students and former students opposed to the prevailing socialist orthodoxy on campuses in New Zealand. Following a short-lived change of its name to ACTivists, Prebble's Rebels have ceased to exist. The above link is to the latest available archive of the home page (with further links). Richard Prebble, the founder, now leads ACT New Zealand, further down on this list, under Organizations. The e-mail address given is to the head office of ACT/The Liberal Party.

Libertarian Information Services
Source: Libertarian Information Services
Author: Robert Carruthers
City: Sydney, Country: Australia

An Australian libertarian site featuring serious essays on the success of liberty, and tongue-in-cheek essays exposing the ridiculousness of left-liberal policies. This site has ceased to exist, but we link now to the latest available copy at the Internet Archive (May 19, 2001).

libertus.net (formerly "Burning Issues")
Source: Electronic Frontiers Australia
Author: Irene Graham
Country: Australia

An extremely comprehensive look at censorship in Australia (and in general).

Institute for Private Enterprise
Source: Institute for Private Enterprise
Country: Australia
E-mail: ipe@ozemail.com.au

The Institute For Private Enterprise promotes the cause of private enterprise and advocates a reduction in the role of government in Australia.

Censorship and free speech
Source: Electronic Frontiers Australia
Country: Australia

Electronic Frontiers Australia maintains this page documenting the uphill battle Down Under to defend free speech on the Net.

School Choice 2001: What's Happening in the States: Mariana Islands
Source: The Heritage Foundation
Country: Northern Mariana Islands

Education statistics, the legal context for school choice, and a summary of recent developments in the territory. Also provides contact information and links to information in the states and Puerto Rico.

Mannkal Foundation web links
Source: Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
Country: Australia

Links to Australian and international libertarian and market oriented sites, as well as those about mining and exploration.

Home Page on Popper, Bartley, and Hayek
Source: Rafe Champion
Country: Australia
E-mail: rchamp@bigpond.net.au

An Australian intellectual's personal home page dedicated to the ideas of Popper, Bartley, Hayek and the Austrian school of economics. Includes short biographies of these three men and links to more information on them.

Sludgegate: One man's battle against the state
Source: The Free Radical
Country: New Zealand

"What do you do when you wake up one morning and read in your daily paper that Council plan to build a sludge dump the size of two football fields along your boundary? In the case of Adrian Chisholm, you choose to fight." This site chronicles the trials of a property owner vs. New Zealand law.

Australia homeschooling
Source: A to Z Home's Cool
Country: Australia

Links to homeschooling email lists, support groups and resources, curriculum, regulations.

New Zealand homeschooling
Source: A to Z Home's Cool
Country: New Zealand

Links to homeschooling email lists, support groups and resources, curriculum, regulations.

Liberty and society web site
Source: CIS
Country: Australia

"[A] unique programme for young people living in Australia, New Zealand and other surrounding countries. The goal of Liberty and Society is to create an intellectual environment where ideas and opinions about what makes a free society can be discussed, argued and learnt."

Institute for Liberal Values web site
Source: Institute for Liberal Values
Country: New Zealand

The Institute for Liberal Values is a new non-profit, non-partisan educational organization promoting the values of classical liberalism. Lots of good information here, with more promised.

ILV library
Source: Institute for Liberal Values
Country: New Zealand

Categorized by subject, ILV's library contains essays, op-eds, downloads, and books. Good resource.

Centre for Independent Studies
Source: CIS
City: Sydney, Country: Australia
E-mail: cis@cis.org.au

The leading classical liberal think-tank in Australia since 1977. Features an online journal, newsletter, bookstore, etc.

Libertarianz
Source: Libertarianz
Country: New Zealand
E-mail: organon@ihug.co.nz

The radical libertarian party of New Zealand, led by Peter Cresswell. Free-Market.Net partners.

Electronic Frontiers Australia
Source: EFA
City: North Adelaide, Country: Australia
E-mail: secretary@efa.org.au

"A non-profit national organisation formed in 1994 to protect and promote the civil liberties of users of computer based communications systems and of those affected by their use."

ACT New Zealand
Source: Association of Consumers and Taxpayers
City: Thames, Country: New Zealand
E-mail: voteact@iprolink.co.nz

"Keeping New Zealand on track." More moderate than the Libertarianz, ACT was founded in 1993 by Roger Douglas, the prime mover behind New Zealand's broad liberalization efforts during the eighties. Longtime Douglas ally Richard Prebble now leads the group.

Private Doctors of Australia
Source: Private Doctors of Australia Ltd.
Country: Australia

An alternative to the pro-medicare AMA and pro-socialisation Doctors Reform Society. PDA members believe in the free market, the Hippocractic oath and ethical practice, and that the contractual relationship between patient and doctor is best served without the interference of the State.

The Institute for Public Affairs
Source: IPA
City: Melbourne, Country: Australia

Homepage for this top Melbourne based think tank. Sites includes articles from IPA Review, Backgrounders on a variety of issues and special sections on deregulation, energy and indigenous issues.

Southern Women's Group
Source: SWG
Country: Australia
E-mail: swg@acr.net.au

SWG describes itself as "A Libertarian Feminist organisation, working towards the empowerment of women and the elimination of sexism. We run an Information and Referral Centre for Women in Bega, New South Wales, Australia, and we are developing this site as an information tool for the Centre."

Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
Source: MEEF
City: West Perth, State: Western Australia, Country: Australia

A small Australian think-tank operated by Ron Manners.

Australian Libertarian Society
Source: Australian Libertarian Society
City: Canberra, Country: Australia
E-mail: john.humphreys99@gmail.com

A free, voluntary-association group that aims to unite all like-minded people in Australia who support values of minimal government and greater individual liberty.
The Australian Libertarian Society's goal is to promote the ideals of libertarianism. Links include literature, activities, membership information, "libertarian heroes," and a forum.

Perth Academy of Science Education Centre
Source: Perth Academy of Science
City: Perth, State: WA, Country: Australia
E-mail: scott@intellectus.com.au

Education center specializing in the mathematical and physical sciences. Offering tuition and courses.

Free Trade Youth Australia
Source: FTY/CounterProtest.Net
Country: Australia

A cabal of Australian youth dedicated to the notion that the only fair trade is free trade.

The Empire of Atlantium
Source: George Secundus
City: The Imperium Proper, Sydney, Country: Australia
E-mail: information@atlantium.org

"The basis of the Empire's territorial claims is a 61 square metre enclave located approximately 1.5 kilometres from the centre of the City of Sydney." Atlantium makes territorial and supra-territorial claims to sovereignty -- but don't bet the ranch on getting through customs at JFK on one of their passports.

Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform
Source: FFDLR
City: Higgins, Country: Australia
E-mail: mcconnell@ffdlr.org.au

Australian drug reform organization committed to reducing the tragedy associated with illicit drug use through decriminalization and harm reduction policies.

Liberal Democratic Party
Source: Liberal Democratic Party
City: Canberra, Country: Australia
E-mail: liberal_democracy@yahoo.com

Australia's libertarian political party - promoting free markets, individual liberty and a limited constitutional democratic government.

New Zealand Business Roundtable
Source: NZBR
Country: New Zealand

"[C]ommitted to contributing to the overall development of New Zealand and to promoting the interests of all New Zealanders concerned with achieving a more prosperous economy and fair society. ... In an open and free domestic and international market environment, the interests of the business sector are closely aligned with those of the community at large."

Education Forum (New Zealand)
Source: Education Forum
City: Wellington, Country: New Zealand
E-mail: mmaslin@awaroa.com

The Education Forum contributes to education policy through research and debate on the current issues, structures and expectations at all levels of New Zealand education.

Free Trade Party
Source: Free Trade Party
City: Sydney, Country: Australia
E-mail: freetradeparty@start.com.au

"[D]edicated to limited government funded by a property 'tax' or fee for property protection services."

Libz -- Reluctant Politicians
Source: LibertariaNZ
Country: New Zealand

Libertarianz party list for their third election since registration in 1996. (07/01/02)

Libz campaigning for freedom in electorate seats
Source: LibertariaNZ
Country: New Zealand

"The Libertarianz Party, the only party that believes that people own their own lives, will be campaigning in the 2002 election for the electorate vote in five electorates, and in all others will be calling the other parties to account on individual liberties and rights." (07/03/02)

Libertarianz have got plans for Big Government
Source: Libertarianz
Country: New Zealand

Russell Watkins and the Libertarianz say they have got big plans for Big Government -- "they want to stamp out big government, big time! And in your lifetime." They plan, they say, "to get politicians out of your face, out of your pocket, and out of your life -- for good!"

Liberty and Society Seminars
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
City: Sydney, Country: Australia

Yearly weekend summer seminars for students living in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.

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Libertyloop-list
Source: The Free Radical
Country: New Zealand
E-mail: organon@ihug.co.nz

An e-mail list for those libertarians interested in the New Zealand, Oceania area.

Michael Darby
Source: Queenslanders for Constitutional Monarchy
City: Brisbane, Country: Australia
E-mail: bushpoet@hotmail.com

An Australian performance poet, comic and entertainer; and a speaker and writer on libertarian themes and political campaigning techniques. Campaigns for retention of the Constitutional Monarchy in Australia. He offers to travel anywhere to promote liberty.

Ron Manners
Source: Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
Country: Australia
E-mail: mannwest@mannkal.org

Runs the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, an Australian libertarian think-tank (it is a registered non-profit organization). Ron is also an expert in mining.

Revolution in a Small Country
Source: Liberty Unbound
Author: R.W. Bradford (1947 - 2005)
Country: United States

Liberty editor Bradford does an excellent job of outlining the political circumstances which allowed for the revolutionary changes which occurred in New Zealand.

Fiscal Policy and Federalism
Source: Jason Soon
Author: Jason Soon
City: Sydney, Country: Australia

The author examines the theoretical underpinnings of competitive federalism and options for enhancing competition and transparency in the provision of public goods by the different Australian governments.

RIP Democracy?
Source: NT Voluntary Euthanasia Society Inc
City: Darwin, Country: Australia

A list of Senators and House Representatives who voted to overturn the NT 'Right of the Terminally Ill Act'.

Euthanasia, Liberalism and Freedom of Choice
Source: NT Euthanasia Society
Author: Lynda Cracknell
City: Darwin, Country: Australia

A Liberal Party voter criticises the Howard Government's rejection of classical liberal principles, especially during the Euthanasia debate, but also more generally.

The New Zealand Pilots Society: A Case Study in 'New Unionism'
Source: Policy
Author: Mike Beverland
City: Sydney, Country: Australia

"Philosophically the ANZPS is more influenced by Ayn Rand than Karl Marx or socialism. Its view is that the company’s interest and the employee’s interest are in harmony, and that efficiency for the company is the only way to gain pay increases in the future.".

The Welfare State - Depreciating Australia's Social Capital?
Source: Policy
Author: Andrew Norton
City: Sydney, Country: Australia

What is 'social capital'? The author examines the meaning of the term, and argues that policies from both the left and the right can undermine these vital social relationships.

The modern Inquisition of 'concerned' science
Source: IPA Magazine
Author: Andrew McIntyre
Country: Australia

In their frenzy to prove the health costs of passive smoking, authorities are resorting to tactics typical of the Inquisition. (03/99)

Taxation of Family Income
Source: Policy Magazine
Author: Lucy Sullivan
Country: Australia

The author discusses the "lost concept" of horizontal equity in Australia's tax system. (3/99)

The Hazardous Era of 'Common Sense'
Source: Policy
Author: Lisa Hill
City: Sydney, Country: Australia

Common sense is being hailed as a long overdue remedy to the excesses of political correctness and goverment by a bureaucratic elite. However, the author argues that Mill’s views on the potential dangers of ‘received opinion’ are apposite at this point.

The Negative Income Tax: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
Source: IPA Review
Author: Michael James
Country: Australia

Why the much-praised NIT is overrated and is only likely to entrench the current disincentives to work and solidify current expenditures on Social Security. (3/98)

Nursing Home Policy: Who Pays?
Source: IPA Review
Author: Gary Johns
Country: Australia

The failure of the Coalition's nursing home reforms proved just how hard it is for governments to require payment for something that has traditionally been "free." Yet, argues this former Labor minister, the win for the self-interested special interests who opposed the payment will result in perverse long term consequences for the industry and those who rely upon it. (2/98)

The 'R' Files: The Sot Weed Offensive
Source: IPA Review
Author: Alan Moran
Country: Australia

A new puritanism is gripping the baby-boomers, and their target is the tobacco industry. The author of this article examines the costs and benefits of smoking, and highlights the regressive nature of smoking taxation in Australia. (3/98)

Socio-Economic Consequences of the National Competition Policy
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Author: Alan Moran
Country: Australia

A well-considered endorsement of the Australian Government's Competition Policy. The author does express some doubts as to the possible effects of the National Access regime on competition. Probably fell on deaf ears in the Senate ... (8/98)

Bureaucratic Excrement
Source: The Free Radical
Author: Deborah Coddington
Country: United States

"It was Waiheke Island, not Tiananmen Square; it was a property developer, not a student; and it was a bulldozer, not a tank, but the principle was the same: one man standing up for his rights against the tyranny of the state." (7/99)

Human Rights Act Enshrines Wrong Rights
Source: Libertarianz
Author: Cassandra Hewitt-Reid
Country: Australia

"If a principled government was to amend the Human Rights Act," says Libertarianz Spokesman Cass Hewitt-Reid, "they should begin by renaming it the Human Wrongs Act, and end by gutting it!" The NZ Government instead merely tries to avoid the Act's oppressive provisions being applied to itself. (7/17/99)

A Nineties Dropout: An Interview with Lindsay Perigo
Source: The Free Radical, Metro Magazine
Author: Bruce Jesson
Country: Australia

An interesting interview between socialist Bruce Jesson and Objectivist radio-host and commentator Lindsay Perigo. Covers a broad range of issues, both personal and philosophical. (7/99)

Health of the State
Source: Free Radical
Author: Deborah Coddington
Country: New Zealand

A cancer survivor relates her experience with private vs. government-run health care. (8/99)

New Zealand's Brain Drain
Source: The Free Radical
Author: Lindsay Perigo
Country: New Zealand

Statist policies are causing a "brain drain" in both New Zealand and Canada. (8/25/99)

A Constitution for New Freeland: Preamble
Source: The Free Radical
Author: Lindsay Perigo
Country: New Zealand

Lindsay Perigo of The Free Radical proposes a constitution for the country of New Freeland. (10/24/99)

Let's create real jobs this time
Source: Mannkal
Author: Ron Manners
Country: Australia

The author makes four suggestions to restart the Australian economy: Focus government involvement on fewer activities; seek a better understanding of what "free-enterprise" can do for Australia; overcome the distortions caused by our current "selective deregulation"; remove the "obstructions" to enterprise. (PDF file.) (1/92)

Gun control causes crime increase In Australia?
Source: Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
Author: Vin Suprynowicz
Country: Australia

A look at the unintended consequences of gun control. In particular, after many private guns were destroyed in Australia "to prevent crime," the crime rates actually went up. (4/00)

Damage done by labor unions
Source: Mannkal
Author: Ron Manners
Country: Australia

Labor unions impose blockades and engage in other similar activism. This results in serious harm for the Australian farmers, who respond by blockading the products made by members of these unions. The economy gets seriously hurt. (01/01/00)

Australia needs freedom
Source: Mannkal
Author: Ron Manners
Country: Australia

A speech to a Divisional Conference of the Liberal party of Australia. Australia needs more economic freedom to revive its economy. This is clearly shown by the example of other countries. The author describes his experience in visits to several countries. (PDF file) (03/28/1992)

Barnacles that slow down progress
Source: Mannkal
Author: Ron Manners
Country: Australia

Regulation by the government makes many "barnacles" that slow down economic progress in the mining industry in Australia. (PDF file) (10/24/1990)

State health care erodes personal autonomy
Source: Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
Author: Dr. Michael A. Reid
Country: Australia

Gradual development of centralized state-run health care in Australia had very much to do with taking power from the individuals and transferring it to the state -- and much less to do with health.

A constitution for New Freeland
Source: Libertarianz
Country: New Zealand

Proposed by members of the Auckland Libertarianz executive.

Deregulation improves Australia's private health coverage
Source: NCPA
Country: Australia

By loosening government controls over private health coverage, Australia has boosted the percentage of the population that carries insurance. (06/12/01)

Libertarianz propose to empower citizens
Source: Libertarianz
Country: New Zealand

"'True devolution of power to citizens and their communities and an end to coercion against them' is how Libertarianz leader and Coromandel candidate Peter Cresswell proudly described the positive local government policy proposals in the Libertarianz submission on the Local Government Act review." (08/27/01)

Independent sovereign state in Australia
Source: Hutt River Province
Country: Australia

"The Hutt River Province is an Independent Sovereign State, consisting of a total area of 295 square miles located on the west coast of Australia 320 miles north of Perth. In 1970 Leonard Casley, afraid his land would be stolen by the government of Western Australia over an agricultural quota dispute, seceded and formed this 295 square mile principality." [The Editor: The above link having become broken, I replaced it with the earliest archived copy in the Internet Archive. For more information about this though, I suggest you go to the current website of the Principality of Hutt River, to How the Principality Came to Be, and to the Wikipedia article.]

Free market economics: The antidote for socialist policies
Source: Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
Author: Ron Manners
Country: Australia

A 1975 proposal to introduce the study of 'Free Market Economics' in Australian education. (PDF file) (09/12/75)

Australian style fascism
Source: Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
Author: Ronald Kitching / Max Newton
Country: Australia

"What Fabianism stands for, is the establishment of socialism by stealth instead of violent revolution. (The badge, proudly worn by all Fabians is a wolf in sheep's clothing). They have to a large extent been very successful in their endeavours in Australia." (03/26/01)

Health care in Australia
Source: Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
Author: Michael A. Reid
Country: Australia

"[D]espite legal protections, there are a myriad of ways in which politicians and bureaucrats can undermine the primacy of the individual in a democracy. The Australian health care system provides one such example." (01/01/00)

The Perils of Republics
Source: Policy
Author: Lucy Sullivan
City: Sydney, Country: Australia

The author argues that constitutional monarchies have been free to be secular without the risk of totalitarianism because the monarch has moderated mass democracy by symbolising values independent of the collective will, and that European history has shown that the rejection of these traditions can lead to totalitarianism.

Privatising Victoria's Electricity Distribution
Source: IPA
Author: Paul Fearon and Alan Moran
City: Melbourne, Country: Australia

The authors argue that, by any standards, the privatisation has been a complete success. Available only in PDF format.

Betraying the victims: The 'stolen generations' report
Source: IPA Backgrounder
Author: Ron Brunton
City: Melbourne, Country: Australia

A controversial, but considered, critique of the methods and conclusions of the "stolen generations" inquiry into Aboriginal children being taken from their families. (02/98)

Risk, Regulation and Responsibility: Promoting Reason in Workplace and Product Safety Regulation
Source: IPA
Author: Various
City: Melbourne, Country: Australia

The proceedings of a conference held by IPA and the Centre for Applied Economics. Examines the proliferation of regulation and the options for reform.

Australian Competition Policy: Deregulation or Reregulation?
Source: IPA
Author: Various
City: Melbourne, Country: Australia

A collection of papers from the the IPA's inaugural deregulation conference held in Melbourne on 24 July 1998. The participants consider the policies and practices of ACCC, and question whether it is aiding or hindering the market.

Consent, Compassion and Coercion
Source: Institute for Public Affairs
Author: Michael Warby
Country: Australia

The text of a speech given to the H R Nicholld Society. Warby reflects on the Australian labor market, especially the unemployment problem, and the 'compassionate' members of society who are determined to perpetuate it. (8/98)

In The Revolution's Twilight
Source: The Free Radical
Author: Lindsay Perigo
Country: Australia

"Originally entitled, 'Antipodean Altruism ... how New Zealand's acclaimed economic "revolution" is jeopardised by the absence of an ethical revolution,' this was given as a speech at an Institute for Objectivist Studies conference in 1997." A detailed account of recent New Zealand history by someone well acquainted with the major players.

Australia's Gambling Industry
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Author: Alan Moran
Country: Australia

A response to the anti-gambling puritans who dominate the public debate. Moran points out that gambling has a long history, and that the problems it causes are no greater than those caused by any other disorder. He highlights how over-regulation and limited licenses have created shortages and monopoly rents that are distorting the market. (11/98)

The Unemployment Consequences of the Unfair Dismissal Laws
Source: H.R. Nicholls Society
Author: Jason Soon
Country: United States
E-mail: tsoon@mail.usyd.edu.au

Article examining how Australia's employment protection laws impede employment growth by making it riskier for employers to hire people.

Media regulation in Australia and the public interest
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Country: Australia

"The effectiveness of traditional regulatory mechanisms is increasingly being challenged by rapid technological change. ... In such circumstances, great care should be exercised to ensure that regulatory mechanisms do not distort market incentives or hinder maximization of economic and social benefits." Available as an Adobe Acrobat file or hardcopy (for purchase)(12/8/99)

Perils of public ownership
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Country: Australia

In Australia, those State governments that have not privatized their energy businesses are chalking up considerable losses as a result of mismanagement and political intervention in commercial matters. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required to read full paper) (12/1/99)

East Timor and the Slippery Slope Problem
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Leon T. Hadar
Country: United States

"Domestic and international pressure on Washington to use U.S. military power to resolve the recent crisis in East Timor points to the dangers involved in adopting the Clinton Doctrine as a guide for U.S. foreign policy." This report is in Adobe PDF. (12/20/99)

Rear vision on trade policy
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Country: Australia

Failure to meet World Trade Organization commitments threatens Australia's competitiveness in international markets. (9/98)

The puzzle of boys' educational decline
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Country: Australia

The evidence suggests that the educational achievement of Australian boys has been declining largely as a result of family instability. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required) (6/98)

Taxi!!
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Country: Australia

Australia's need for efficient taxi service can best be met by deregulating the market and letting supply meet demand. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required) (3/99)

Why small business is not hiring
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Country: Australia

Australian small businesses are discouraged from hiring workers by stiff employment laws and aggressive tribunals and courts. (2/99)

Tax injustice
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Country: Australia

Taxation in Australia rests especially heavily on families, restricting choices in use of income and encouraging dependency on the state. The author's conservative recommendation is for a return to family taxation. (6/98)

Regulating the media: It is dangerous to give it special status
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: Robert Officer
Country: Australia

Australian government policies that target the media for special regulation threaten to stunt the industry's ability to compete and stifle a range of voices. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required) (Autumn 1999)

Saving Australia's health care system
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: Steven Schwartz
Country: Australia

Resuscitation of Australia's faltering state-dominated health-care system requires an open, competitive market. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required) (Autumn 1999)

Reforming state taxation
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: Owen Gabbitas and Damien Eldridge
Country: Australia

Taxation at the state level in Australia is archaic and in need of vigorous reform. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required) (Autumn 1999)

Shooting the messenger: A critique of Australia's Internet content regulation regime
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Country: Australia

Australia has adopted one of the most draconian Internet censorship regimes in the developed world, imposing an enormous burden on the online industry for little real benefit. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required) (2/00)

Australia's universities: Last of the great socialist enterprises?
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Country: Australia

When compared with private enterprises, Australia's institutions of higher learning are models of bureaucratic inefficiency. (2/10/00)

The challenge of a deregulated market
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Author: Alan Moran
Country: Australia

An in-depth examination of developments since the deregulation of the New South Wales and Victoria energy markets. (2/25/00)

The Idea of a University Beyond 2000
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Country: Australia

Prof. Alan Gilbert envisions a more competitive, diverse, and dynamic market for higher education in Australia's future. (2/25/00)

Academic freedom and the well-managed university
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Lauchlan Chipman
Country: Australia

The author outlines reforms for Australia's state-controlled universities. (2/29/00)

Averting a 'New Kosovo' in Indonesia: Opportunities and pitfalls for the United States
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Leon T. Hadar
Country: United States

Leon Hadar counters the argument that Indonesia/East Timor should be treated as a 'New Kosovo.' He covers some of the problems the U.S. could face. The full report is in Adobe PDF. (3/9/00)

Compulsory Voting: The Australian Anachronism
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Ian Farrow
Country: Australia

Some international "good government" types tout Australian-style compulsory voting, but the policy is inherently authoritarian and has a questionable effect on voting patterns. (1997/98)

The welfare state: Depreciating Australia's capital
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Country: Australia

Australia's welfare state is eroding people's capacity for engaging in voluntary arrangements, and the resulting economic potential of the country. (1998)

Industrial policy for Australia
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: Helen Hughes
Country: Australia

Despite the worldwide explosion of entrepreneurial activity and open markets, Australians remain susceptible to calls for state direction of the economy. (1997/98)

The new populism in Australia
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: Gregory Melleuish
Country: Australia

Australia's shifting political and economic culture has generated both fans of change and populist yearnings for a monoracial, statist past. (1997/98)

Postal services: Public or private? Competition or monopoly?
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Terry Black and Susan Black
Country: Australia

Privatizing Australia's postal service offers the potential for increased efficiency, competition and innovation. (1997/98)

Better than the Australian Industrial Relations Commission
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: Des Moore
Country: Australia

Dumping Australia's Industrial Relations Commission and letting workers and employers deal with each other directly offers that country its best chance of reducing unemployment. (Adobe Acrobat file) (Summer, 2000)

The Hazardous Era of 'Common Sense'
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: Lisa Hill
Country: Australia

Australia's Liberal Party may have replaced the Labor opposition's political correctness with a "common sense" that's all too common and not terribly sensible. (1998)

The Open Economy and the National Interest: The Tug of War over the Multilateral Agreement on Investment
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: Wolfgang Kasper
Country: Australia

In Australia, attacks on capital mobility have come from both right-wing and left-wing supporters of state power. (1998)

New Zealand's pro-competitive agricultural reforms
Source: The Institute for Economic Affairs
Author: R.W.M. Johnson
Country: New Zealand

A thorough review of the agricultural economy of New Zealand before and after policy reform to rid the country of social safety nets for farmers. Available in Adobe PDF format. (5/00)

Anarcha-feminism
Source: Community activist info node
Author: Flick Ruby
Country: Australia

"As anarchist feminists we are not asking men to attone for the sins of the forefathers, we are asking them to take responsibility for the masculinity of the future, we are not asking women to be perpetually aware of their oppression but to emerge from it." This analysis is a tad leftist in its perspective, but interesting. (12/96)

Privatisation in Australia
Source: IPA
Country: Australia

"During the 1990s, Australia was a pace-setter in privatisation around the world. ... In both the Commonwealth and Victoria, government debt has been markedly reduced." The article argues that this is only a secondary goal behind increased efficiency and that governments will rarely be efficient commercial managers. (Adobe Acrobat) (7/00)

The truth about private schools in Australia
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Jennifer Buckingham
Country: Australia

While private schools are often perceived in Australia as harming public education, in fact they are more efficient, serve a wide clientele, achieve better results, and harm government schools only by comparison. (Adobe Acrobat) (8/1/00)

Mutual obligation and the social fabric
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Hon. Tony Abbott, MP
Country: Australia

"The role of the welfare system in creating and sustaining unemployment has been one of the great unmentionables of Australian public policy debate. No-one wants to be accused of attacking the unemployed. Yet this inexcusable silence has trapped far too many people in a welfare system which can never meet their expectations for a decent life." (8/3/00)

Churches, welfare services and government contracts
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Samuel Gregg
Country: Australia

"Samuel Gregg ... looks at the potential pitfalls for church organisations who accept government contracts to perform welfare services. The temptation to gain access to public funding in order to continue their good work must be regarded warily in comparison to the possible cost of becoming harnessed by the government." (Adobe Acrobat) (8/00)

New Zealand's shaky economic constitution
Source: Center for Independent Studies
Author: Wolfgang Kasper
Country: New Zealand

The reregulation of New Zealand's labor market by the current minority government illustrates how easily reforms can be overturned and holds a warning for Australia. (Adobe Acrobat) (8/31/00)

The great divide: Sydney or the Bush
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: David Trebeck
Country: Australia

In Australia, rural woes are being used to justify increased government spending and intervention, but the problems are more than a bit overstated. (Adobe Acrobat) (9/6/00)

Learning from New Zealand's past
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Author: Ronald Trotter
Country: New Zealand

Many New Zealanders hanker for the old days of state control of the economy. Their nostalgia could use a reality-check. (Adobe Acrobat) (9/6/00)

Privatisation of electricity the great transformer
Source: IPA/The Age
Author: Alan Moran
Country: Australia

People often believe that the transmission and distribution of electricity is a natural monopoly. But Australia's experience with second round sales of electricity businesses indicates it was government, not the new owners, that have made out like bandits. (8/00)

Trading phobias: Governments, NGOs and globalization
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Professor Anne Krueger
Country: Australia

"Evidence that economic growth through trade liberalization has delivered tremendous increases in living standards in poor countries is overwhelming... [This needs] to be publicized repeatedly and widely." (10/16/00)

Breaking the trade stalemate: What are Australia's options?
Source: CIS
Author: Wolfgang Kasper
Country: Australia

"[A]s long as multilateral progress remains stalled, comprehensive liberalisation with the dynamic and free US economy promises by far the biggest and most sustained advantages for Australians." (Adobe Acrobat) (02/15/01)

Toward racial harmony: a new constitution for Fiji
Source: CIS
Author: Wolfgang Kasper
Country: Fiji

"Repeated 'constitutional accidents' have shown that Fiji’s internal stability, security, peace, and prosperity cannot be guaranteed by the centralisation of governance ... This Issue Analysis argues for small government in Fiji." (03/05/01)

Soaking the poor: discriminatory taxation of tobacco, alcohol and gambling
Source: IPA
Author: Alan Moran
Country: Australia

"Taxes ranging from over 40 per cent to a mammoth 339 per cent on alcohol, tobacco and gambling have mercilessly exploited the consumer's fondness for these goods and services. ... Soaking the Poor is an apt description of the effects of very high taxes on a narrow range of products that tend to represent a greater share of the consumption of the less well-off." (Adobe Acrobat) (1996)

Correcting the false scholarship syndrome
Source: IPA
Author: Ron Brunton
City: Melbourne, Country: Australia

Ron Brunton revisits the continuing controversy in Australia over allegations that a generation of aboriginal children were stolen from their parents and their people. Here he writes a point-by-point rebuttal of recent criticism of his work on the issue. (04/01)

The myth of 'two Australias': wealth and income distribution
Source: CIS
Author: Robert Skeffington
Country: Australia

Australians are enjoying unprecedented economic prosperity,with the benefits being dispersed more widely than is often recognized. But you wouldn't know it from the tone of public conversation. (05/01)

The 'fair go' in Australia: popular support for taxing and spending
Source: CIS
Author: Simon Blount
Country: Australia

While Australians have a reputation for supporting the "fair go" -- a welfare state supported by high taxes -- research suggests that taxes aren't really very popular no matter what social services are under discussion. (05/01)

The IPA responds to press attacks
Source: IPA
Country: Australia

Australia's free-market Institute of Public Affairs, which has been strongly critical of the government-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was the subject of a recent on-air hit piece. The IPA explains why this just proves its point. (05/01)

The Privatization of CSL, Ltd.
Source: IPA
Author: Gary Johns
Country: Australia

The privatization of CSL, Ltd., was one of the most high-profile and controversial transfers of an entity from the government to the private sector in Australia. Author Gary Johns explores the rights and wrongs of the incident. (Adobe Acrobat) (05/01)

Reforming wages and welfare policy
Source: CIS
Author: John Humphreys
Country: Australia

"The replacement of all current welfare and wage provisions with a universal but minimal negative income tax would create jobs and reduce welfare dependency." (Adobe Acrobat)(06/01)

Making work pay -- the trouble with the welfare state
Source: IPA
Author: Tony Abbott
Country: Australia

"Since the beginning of the welfare state, successive governments here and abroad have made the discovery that guaranteeing the wherewithal for life can easily remove the motivation for work." (06/12/01)

How a bill of rights could undermine freedom
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Bob Carr
Country: Australia

Carr objects to a bill of Rights for Australia on the grounds that it will politicize the courts. Note that many of his "negatives" will be seen as "positives" by American readers. (Adobe Acrobat) (09/01)

The politics of envy: poverty and income distribution
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Helen Hughes
Country: Australia

"Worldwide experience indicates that if basic economic and social policies are not conducive to high employment, merely throwing money at the problem will not work. Welfare payments may enable people to ‘live decently’, but on a continuing basis are counterproductive by leading to welfare dependency." (Adobe Acrobat) (09/01)

The brain drain: why New Zealanders are voting with their feet
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Roger Kerr
Country: New Zealand

The growing number of people leaving New Zealand for better earnings and opportunities overseas points to a failure of public policy at home. Statist economics are almost certainly to blame. (Adobe Acrobat) (09/01)

What government can't know
Source: CIS
Author: Lauchlan Chipman
Country: Australia

"[T]o equip Australia for more rapid advance into the age of the knowledge economy [requires] the massification of higher education, and there is no ... way of doing this which does not involve further large scale de-regulation of the higher education sector, and removing the barriers that are inhibiting the birth of the for-profit university in this country." (10/23/01)

The case for school choice and how to fund it
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Jennifer Buckingham
Country: Australia

"A funding system that provides all families with the means to enroll their children in the schools of their choice is the best way to ensure equity of access to education for all children." (11/06/01)

Australia is not Sweden
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Peter Saunders
Country: Australia

"Current debates about the need for fundamental reform of the welfare state are concentrated in the English-speaking countries. This is because it is in these countries that the welfare ethic clashes most disastrously with traditional individualistic principles of self-reliance and personal responsibility." (11/01)

Faster growth if New Zealanders want it
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Don Brash
Country: New Zealand

A seismic shift in attitudes towards wealth creation is required in New Zealand if the country is to pursue policies that result in stronger economic growth. And if we want better housing, better healthcare and better education, we need economic growth. (11/01)

Living the legislated life
Source: CIS
Author: Professor Steven Schwartz
Country: Australia

"I am a little dubious about the idea that government legislation can make you happy. The way I see it, if laws made people happy, we should already be the most jovial nation on earth. Because, every aspect of our behaviour is already subject to some sort of legislation." (archive of edited version of 10/25/01 lecture)

Public education in New South Wales
Source: CIS
Author: Jennifer Buckingham
Country: Australia

"The evidence is that NSW schools and colleges are not under-resourced in relation to other systems and that they are performing well on the only comparable measure of achievement. There is, however, still a question of whether and how the performance of public schools might be improved." (11/29/01)

Dangerous protections
Source: CIS
Author: Robert Forsyth
Country: Australia

"I believe that in Australia there is little need for any more legal restrictions on the behaviour of religious groups. In Australia especially, such over-legal involvement is a dangerous phenomenon. We are much better to rely upon societal standards rather than more laws." (11/01)

Economic freedom watch
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Wolfgang Kasper
Country: Australia

"Civilisation cannot prosper without economic freedom and other liberties, yet in Australia economic freedom is no longer seen as the foundation of prosperity." (01/08/02)

The importance of teacher quality
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Ken Rowe
Country: Australia

"[L]ooks at the disparity in academic achievement between boys and girls, and the reasons behind such disparity. Rowe concludes that the most important source of variation in student achievement is, in fact, teacher quality." (03/02)

The adult male experience of heterosexual abuse
Source: DV Men
Author: Anne Lewis
Country: Australia

"The abuse of men by their female partners is a serious social problem, largely unacknowledged by society. This study explores the nature and extent of abuse against men, how they are affected by it, and the social structures which enable the abuse to occur."

Vouchers or tax credits
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: John Humphreys
Country: Australia

A growing body of evidence points to school choice reforms as the best hope for improving schooling in Australia, but questions remain over how to fund them. The author concludes that vouchers are the best option. (05/02)

The labelling game
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Michael Warby
Country: Australia

That the strategic use of labelling tends to empty labels of real content is clear. Organizations and people who advocate major changes in Australia's policy and structure on classical liberal grounds get labelled "conservative." The actual content of what people believe and say is not relevant to how they get labelled. (05/24/02)

Unfair dismissal laws and long-term unemployment
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Kayoko Tsumori
Country: Australia

"A possible explanation for Australia's unemployment problem is the over-regulation of the labour market. This includes the unfair dismissal laws in the Commonwealth Workplace Relations Act 1996. The unfair dismissal laws are a potential deterrent both to firing and to hiring. An unfair dismissal claim can cause employers considerable financial and mental distress." (08/20/02)

Can government assist small business?
Source: Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
Author: Ron Manners
Country: Australia

Manners shows why well-intentioned regulations and taxes do a lot of harm to small business, so the government's best help would be leaving it alone. He addresses the issue from personal experience. (PDF file) (01/08/81)

Families, fertility and maternity leave
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Barry Maley
Country: Australia

"The debate over paid maternity leave has been linked to the concurrent debate over Australia's declining fertility. Although each of these subjects is important in its own right, neither can be divorced from the wider problem of a coherent and fair family policy." (09/02)

Poor laws: The minimum wage and unemployment
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Kayoko Tsumori
Country: Australia

"Many social policy researchers and practitioners in Australia believe that a high minimum wage helps alleviate poverty. But a high minimum wage provides no relief for the majority of poor households that are jobless and therefore receive no wage. A high minimum wage, furthermore, destroys employment opportunities for, and thereby increases unemployment among, low-skilled workers." (12/02/02)

Missing Links: Class size, discipline, inclusion and teacher quality
Source: CIS
Author: Jennifer Buckingham
State: NSW, Country: Australia

An analysis and response to the Vinson Report on Public Education in New South Wales. (2/19/03)

Reforming EU farm policy: Lessons from New Zealand
Source: The Institute of Economic Affairs
Author: R.W.M. Johnson
Country: New Zealand

"New Zealand's agricultural reforms have been some of the most radical and successful anywhere, and suggest a way out of the cycle of waste, inefficiency, and corruption that characterize agriculture in Europe." (84p., pb, 2000, Institute Price: £8.00)

Gambles with the Economic Constitution
Source: CIS
Author: Wolfgang Kasper
Country: New Zealand

"New Zealand’s Labour-led minority government has introduced an Employment Relations Bill in parliament, which proposes to re-regulate New Zealand’s free labour markets... Wolfgang Kasper ... predicts that Kiwi re-regulation will slow down economic growth, increase unemployment and eventually lead to less even income distribution." 64pp, A$18.65 (2000)

Behavioural Poverty
Source: CIS
Author: Lucy Sullivan
Country: Australia

"The welfare debate is bedeviled by the failure to distinguish behavioural poverty from financial poverty. ... The want, squalid living and child suffering we encounter around us and in media reports are not the result of poverty in its normal sense, but of demoralisation. Their prevalence has increased hand in hand with ever accelerating welfare expenditure." 66pp, A$9.95 (2000)

Building Prosperity: Australia's future as a global player
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Wolfgang Kasper
Country: Australia

Over the past two decades, Australia has made considerable progress toward greater economic freedom, but the reform momentum now appears to be flagging. Kasper argues that prosperous periods are the time to cut back on unnecessary government activity and to place economic freedom on solid foundations. (144pp, A$24.95) (12/00)

A short history of Australian liberalism
Source: CIS
Author: Gregory Melleuish
Country: Australia

"If there is one lesson that can be gleaned from the history of liberal democracy in Australia, it is that liberal principles are constantly threatened by a populism that seeks to override these principles in search of a short-term gain." (A$14.95)(2000)

Taxing the Family: Australia's forgotten people in the income spectrum
Source: CIS
Author: Lucy Sullivan
Country: Australia

"The financial pressure on the average family with dependent children is growing, with implications for the socialisation of children and Australia's falling birthrate. Fundamental to these are the radical changes to the manner in which the costs of raising children are acknowledged in the tax and welfare systems today." (A$22.40)(08/01)

Families, Freedom and Education
Source: CIS
Author: Jennifer Buckingham
Country: Australia

"More children are enrolled in non-government schools in Australia than ever before. This increase in enrollments has occurred while numbers of children in state schools have stagnated. ... By granting all children an equal educational subsidy, choice would be available to all." (A$21.90)(2001)

State of the Nation 2001: Australia
Source: CIS
Country: Australia

"The new edition of The Centre for Independent Studies' flagship publication, 'State of the Nation,' finds that Australia is in the midst of profound social and economic change -- sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse." (A$29.95)(2001)

The Social Foundations of a Free Society
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Peter Saunders
Country: Australia

A look at five main areas where current trends may be eroding the free society - family life, schooling, community relations, the welfare state, and the values, norms and beliefs that comprise our common culture. (A$7.95)(2002)

Burn Books t-shirt
Source: Jase Przychodzen
Country: Australia
E-mail: jas.przychodzen@marion.sa.gov.au

A dedicated participant in the campaign against Internet censorship invites you to copy his design onto a t-shirt and let people know that you stand against the Australian government's Goebbels-like attempt to censor free speech. (05/99)

The Privateer
Source: The Privateer
City: Noosa Heads, State: Queensland, Country: Australia
E-mail: capt@the-privateer.com

Subscription-based e-mail newsletter. "If you think you can divorce ideas from economics, or principles from investment portfolios, read The Privateer and think again."

The Free Radical
Source: The Free Radical
Country: United States

Libertarian publication originating in New Zealand. This site was recommended by Mike Vardoulis of FOCUS PAC, who calls it "the finest example of how libertarianism should be presented in the modern world." A Freedom Home Page of the Week.

inTouch
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Country: Australia

inTouch is the newsletter of Australia's classical-liberal Institute of Public Affairs. It contains general news about IPA activities, publications, functions, coming events and media highlights.

IPA Review
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Country: Australia

The Review is the IPA's flagship publication. Published every three months, it is a 32-page magazine devoted to thoughtful analysis of the pressing public policy issues of the day. (2/25/00)

IPA Review (March 2000)
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Country: Australia

This issue examines the New Zealand elections, peacekeeping in East Timor, agitprop on Australian campuses, and other important matters. (Adobe Acrobat) (3/00)

IPA Review (June 2000)
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Country: Australia

This issue focuses on welfare reform, and addresses the "reconciliation" issue involving Australian aborigines, (Adobe Acrobat) (6/00)

IPA Review (September 2000)
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Country: Australia

Patrick Moore on environmentalism in the 21st century; Virginia Postrel on uncertainty and progress; IR reform; regulating the professions; greenhouse; datacasting policy; book reviews and much more. (Adobe Acrobat) (9/00)

IPA Review (December 2000)
Source: IPA
Country: Australia

"Patrick Moore on environmentalism in the 21st century; Virginia Postrel on uncertainty and progress; IR reform; regulating the professions; greenhouse; datacasting policy; book reviews and much more..." (12/00)

IPA Review, Volume 53, Number 1
Source: IPA
Country: Australia

Jarol Manheim on the dangers of anti-corporate campaigns; Julian Morris on the precautionary principle; deliberative conferences; the Western Australian election; the ALP in Queensland; newspapers and the referendum; book reviews and much more. (Adobe Acrobat) (03/01)

inTouch -- March 2001
Source: IPA
Country: Australia

Jim Hoggett on the ten pressing reasons for cutting taxes, the ianugural HV McKay Lecture, the third Hal Clough Lecture, visiting biotechnology experts address the IPA, new appointments, IPA news, IPA activities, publications, forthcoming events and much more... (Adobe Acrobat) (03/01)

Dads on the air show
Source: Dads on the Air
Country: Australia

"A successful community radio show based in Sydney, Australia and specifically targetted [sic] at fathers and those who care about them." Text archives available.

Policy Magazine, summer 2002-2003
Source: CIS
Country: Australia

In this issue: "Does Prison Work?"; "Green Protectionism"; "Toward a Global Tax Cartel?"; and much more.

Lava Factory Fouls Hawaiian Air
Source: CFACT
Country: United States

Enviro-Luddites will hate hearing about this natural source of pollution. RealAudio of a short radio segment.

First 24-hr help line for men
Source: Dept. of Family and Community Services (AU)
Country: Australia

Australia has announced what it calls the "world's first" 24-hour family-related help line specifically for men.

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