The Young IPA Podcast

It’s our last show for the year so we’re looking back on some of our best interviews of 2018! Enjoy this extra-long Christmas episode with clips from our interviews with Dennis Prager (4:33-12:24), Douglas Murray (12:33-20:38), Claire Lehmann (20:47-30:50), Dan Hannan (31:02-37:48), Senator James Paterson (37:52-50:48), Nigel Farage (50:58- 56:24), Bjorn Lomborg (56:35-1:04:48), Eunhee Park (1:04:58-1:12:40), Brendan O’Neill (1:12:49-1:20:51), Tom Palmer (1:21:00- 1:33:10), Andrew Bolt (1:33:19-1:45:34), Mark Bauerlein (1:45:42-1:57:38), Greg Sheridan (1:57:48-2:04:11)   and Jacinta Price (2:04:19-2:11:21).

Big week for the IPA this week with our new report Free Speech on Campus Audit 2018 being released and our legal rights team doing a power of work on Morrison's new anti-corruption commission and proposed religious discrimination laws. Nike can't stand by its own slogan and we recap the latest on Theresa May. James and Pete talk to Linda Kavuka from the African Students for Liberty about the free market movement in both Kenya and Africa as a whole, and what other countries can do to assist growth (15:41-33:38). We also talk to IPA Research Fellow Matthew Lesh about the Free Speech on Campus Audit, why some universities are trying to ban sarcasm and how free speech can be saved in higher education (34:06-50:00).

The world is protesting but Paris is the one worth paying attention to. Australia is about to have some disturbing new data laws passed and a US frat has the perfect response to being asked to take the US flag down from their property. We play Part 2 of our interview with Brendan O’Neill where we discuss freedom of speech, censorship at universities and what is next for Spiked (17:25-50:43). We also talk to newest IPA Research Fellow Dr Zachary Gorman on the work he’s going to be doing at the IPA and the history of liberal thought in Australia (51:07-1:06:48) .

It's the day after the IPA's 75th Anniversary Dinner and James and Pete are recovering. We talk about all the fun IPA staff and members had at the dinner then move on to the less-fun Victorian election and how the average rate of personal income tax about to reach 20% in Australia. We play part 1 of our hour long discussion with Brendan O'Neill, with this part on his new book Anti-Woke (available from Connor Court Publishing) and what he makes of the state of Brexit and why he remains optimistic about it (12:16-41:27). We also talk to IPA Research Fellow Daniel Wild about the Victorian election, what the Liberal Party federally and in other states can learn from the Victorian Liberal Party and what another 4 years of Labor means for Victoria (41:44-56:37)

Despite the instability, the federal government has already passed 1,106 more pages of legislation than they did last year. The sharing economy will suffer if Daniel Andrews wins the Victorian election and a report out of the United States shows just how much damage to the economy is done by occupational licensing. The EU is thinking about getting its own army and everyone is mad at Kanye and Kim for using private firefighters. James and Pete talk to Year 10 student Luc Cazenave about doing work experience with the IPA, how he came to learn about liberty and what the effects of the intellectual dark web are on high school students (16:55-29:33). We also talk to Year 11 student Maxim Bashev about his article in the latest edition of the IPA Review on his grandparents' experience under communism in Russia (29:39-48:10)

Theresa May has finally united the Leave and Remain camps...against her. The government announces Robert French will lead an inquiry into freedom of speech at universities and we're hoping it ends in a better place than the Israel embassy move. the Journal of Controversial Ideas makes us lose faith in the state of academic freedom but Dan Crenshaw gives us hope in the future of open discourse. James and Pete talk to IPA Research Fellow Daniel Wild about his trip to the US with the Atlas Network, organisations he met that help spread liberty in China and Egypt, what US think tanks are making of the state of liberty in America and internationally and what he made of the midterm elections (16:52-33:46). We also talk to US filmmaker Michael Ozias who is visiting the IPA with the Lights Camera Liberty program to talk about why free market organisations need to be making more films, the state of Hollywood censorship of alternative viewpoints and he gives his take on James and Pete's pitches for upcoming projects (33:54-48:16)

The US midterms were a draw for both parties and a massive loss for celebrities. Nuclear energy is going to save the world, no matter what the "no-growth economy" movement wants to do to it. Tom Switzer, Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Studies, joins the show to discuss the US midterms, his reflections on Dan Hannan's tour of Australia and the effects identity politics is having on open debate in Australia (20:09-38:09). We also talk to IPA Policy Director Simon Breheny on his last day about his reflections on his time at the IPA (38:13-54:01)

Free speech is officially dead in Europe, everyone gains from economic growth, Kanye West decides to abandon politics and the Tax Foundation's latest report is sobering reading for Australians. James and Pete talk to Dan Hannan about the latest on Brexit, what Australia and Britain can gain from Brexit and the state of political discourse around the world (16:55-32:48). We also talk to Renee Gorman about her new role at the IPA, what's ahead for Generation Liberty and what she's noticing about moving to Melbourne (33:01-46:24).

People are marching all over Australia and the UK but it’s for the wrong policy outcomes. A new plan for energy in Australia is made and it’s not a good one. Obama asks the world to remember who started America’s economic recovery but we don’t think he would want people hitting the history books. James and Pete talk to Marieke Beck-Coon from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education about campus censorship in the United States, some of the cases FIRE is looking at and what Australia can learn from the US experience (17:12-37:24). We also talk to IPA Development Associate Gin Campbell about some of the IPA’s upcoming events and life with a new puppy (37:30-49:40).

Australia might be moving its embassy to Jerusalem, a central problem with the government’s company tax plan is revealed, the World Economic Forum release their annual competitiveness rankings, the US is emitting CO2 at a 67 year low despite withdrawing from Paris and the IPA’s new report on criminal justice is released. James and Pete talk with IPA Research Fellow Morgan Begg to discuss how Hollywood is now gearing movies towards the approval of Chinese censors and what that means, the religious freedom case in the UK and why the Supreme Court has become such a political issue in the US over the last 30 years (17:47-42:03). We also talk to new IPA Research Fellow Kurt Wallace about his new role at the IPA, the Dignity of Work Program and what areas he's going to be looking at (42:12-48:38).