Category Archive: May

Greens call to ban new coal mines would be catastrophic

25/5/11 MEDIA RELEASE | Hugh Tobin Free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, today warned that the Greens call to ban new coal mines would be catastrophic for Northern Australia and would sound the death knell for any …

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60% think Canberra is out of touch with Northern Australia

19/5/11 MEDIA RELEASE | Hugh Tobin In a landmark Galaxy poll conducted exclusively for Australia’s leading free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, 60% of Australians have said that Canberra decision makers do not understand the needs of …

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Landmark poll on Australia’s centralised government

19/5/11 IPA Briefing Document | Hugh Tobin The Galaxy poll conducted exclusively for the Institute of Public Affairs found that the majority of Australians do not believe that decision makers in Canberra are in touch with the needs of families …

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Resource boom not assured

13/5/11 MEDIA RELEASE | John Roskam Free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, today warned that the federal government was wrong to assume that it could continue to pocket the benefits of the mining boom without giving anything …

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