The Young IPA Podcast

This week we talk the big news about job numbers out of the US, the Ramsay Foundation story in ANU, CFMEU writing to Julie Bishop asking her to recognise the Venezuela elections, the NSW government's crackdown on Airbnb and Kanye's album showing supporting Trump isn't the career killer people thought it was. We talk to the IPA's Dr Bella d'Abrera on her article in The Spectator Australia on the scandal at Manningham Council, her take on the Ramsay Foundation and tries to convince us to watch Cobra Kai (14:52-30:47). We also play Dr Chris Berg's interview of Johnathan Blanks, Research Associate at the Cato Institute about the big criminal justice questions facing America (30:57-46:48).

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Bumper episode this week! We talk Australian shoppers blocked from Amazon's international site due to GST changes, Roseanne being cancelled, the Italian elections, Twitter losing its mind over the ICE photos and Trump signing a Right To Try act. We talk to Dr Chris Berg about his two new books, Against Public Broadcasting and Australia's Red Tape Crisis, his reflections on the Friedman Conference last week and what he saw at one of the world's biggest blockchain conventions in New York (17:23-30:07). Then we play Dr Berg sitting down with Claire Lehmann, Editor of Quillette, about the magazine and what it's like to be a member of the Intellectual Dark Web (30:15-41:33) and also with Cato Senior Fellow Ilya Shapiro on some of the big legal questions facing the US right now (41:52-53:03)

This week James and Pete talk an important new book from the Fraser Institute, whether we need a Race Discrimination Commissioner, the latest with Dr Peter Ridd and the push for gender quotas on government and corporate boards. We talk to Tom G. Palmer about his time smuggling books and photocopiers into communist countries, how he's helping spread liberty today through the Middle East and why he's optimistic for the future of freedom (12:02-28:09). We also talk to Jason Clemens, Executive Vice President of the Fraser Institute on the organisations new book on falling entrepreneur rates around the world, why they are falling and what can be done (28:30-40:37).

This week James and Pete talk the Royal Wedding (kind of), the ongoing saga of ABC cuts and Spotify's campaign against "hateful music". We talk to Professor Mark Bauerlein from Emory University about his recent article on the disappearance of great books from universities and how identity politics is destroying the teaching of literature (10:13-32:48). We also talk to IPA Research Fellow Gideon Rozner about his time in the US, how he ended up speaking at a tax cut rally in a small town in Iowa and his take on the government's ban on $10k card payments (33:09-49:52).

This week James and Pete recap the budget and the ABC cuts that weren’t, the near death of press freedom in Britain and the return of the citizenship scandal in federal politics. We talk to Senator James Paterson about the budget, the libertarian moment happening in the US and the secret to a politician’s high-vis vest & hard hat photoshoot (15:55-29:35). We also talk to IPA Research Fellow Daniel Wild about his experiences in the budget lockup and in the United States (29:44-43:29).

This week James and Pete discuss next week’s federal budget, Karl Marx’s 200th Birthday and the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. We talk to Herald Sun columnist and Sky News presenter Andrew Bolt about Marx, Kanye and whether liberals and conservatives can become a Hollywood force (11:56-34:39). We also talk to IPA Research Fellow Georgina Downer about what she wants out of Tuesday’s budget and her work with the International Republican Institute in the upcoming Timor-Leste election (35:05-48:25).

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This week James and Pete discuss the Royal Commission into the banks, Kanye West’s big week on Twitter and two free speech cases in Britain. We talk to IPA Policy Director Simon Breheny to get his views on the major stories of the week and his appearance before a Senate inquiry on corporate tax (14:10-33:11). We play a bonus clip of Professor Robert Tombs discussing the future of democracy (33:15 – 38:17) and we talk to the Executive Director of the Australian Taxpayers Alliance Tim Andrews to preview the upcoming Friedman Conference (38:32-45:28)

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This week James and Pete talk the anniversary that has the whole nation talking, the latest with Sam Rahim, the hot water than Sean Hannity is in, the ACTU’s call to increase the minimum wage and the reason you should watch Q&A next week. We talk to Andrew Bushnell about his new PhD and what he makes of the big issues in the Australian media this week (12.08-27:55). We also play part 3 of Dr Bella d’Abrera’s interview with Profesor Robert Tombs where they talk Brexit and the way elites now view the regular public (28:15-35:46)

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This week James and Pete talk the IPA’s new report into GST, the Andrews government giving $220m to the AFL, Paul Ryan resigning and the Sydney barber taken to the Human Rights Commission for not cutting a girl’s hair. We talk to Dr Chris Berg about his new essay in The Conversation about the state of libertarianism in Australia now and in the future, whether there is a divide in Australian politics between conservatives and libertarians, and his upcoming book with the IPA’s Professor Sinclair Davidson on why the ABC should be privatised (12:20-30:36) We also air Part 2 of Dr Bella d’Abrera’s interview with Professor Robert Tombs on his new book and what it means to be English (30:54-38:12).

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