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20 Australia's Tax Mutineers cut red tape to unleash prosperity The unions and the government “are driving me and other truck drivers out of business. Craig Prosser ” Pross Haulage, Murray Bridge, South Australia Every year businesses spend thousands of hours complying with unnecessary reports, confusing permits, and needless licenses. Every minute employees spend pandering to red tape requirements is a minute those employees are not dedicating to their businesses and economic activity. Red tape costs the Australian economy $176 billion. To unleash prosperity, governments need to reduce the red tape burden on businesses and entrepreneurs. TELL US YOUR RED TAPE STORIES AT www.ipacutredtape.org.au Volume 68 I 3 FROM THE EDITOR R Progress on the fight to repeal 18C 18C entirely. This is hardly a radical post has been going on for three and position. Conduct that intimidates or a half years. Wood and others have CHRIS BERG (to a lesser extent) humiliates a person been accused of violating 18C. Their Editor of the IPA Review is already amply prohibited by other case is currently with the Federal state and federal laws—regardless Circuit Court, which is due to rule olicy change doesn’t happen of whether that intimidation or whether the case should be taken to overnight. Supporters of humiliation has some ethnic or racial trial. The court may decide that the freedom of speech were basis. Once the egregious 'offend' and QUT students do not have a case to Ppalpably disappointed that 'insult' are removed from the Racial answer. But this is hardly the point. the Abbott government abandoned Discrimination Act, 18C is redundant As Morgan Begg writes, the process its promise to repeal section 18C of and can be repealed comfortably. is the punishment. Even before it has the Racial Discrimination Act in Nevertheless, it is the amendment concluded, the QUT case is a travesty August 2014—branding it a 'needless bill, rather than the full repeal bill, which of justice, and an unambiguous complication'. In retrospect it is is most prospective, in large part because demonstration of the harm of 18C. clear that the Abbott government’s it is supported by so many on the left. The defenders of 18C often approach to free speech reform was ask what opponents of 18C would misconceived. But two years later, not THERE IS GOOD like to say that they are prevented only is the cause of free speech still REASON TO BELIEVE from saying. The QUT case alive, it has momentum. > THAT THE PUBLIC IS answers that question and raises As the IPA's Morgan Begg writes SWINGING BEHIND another in response. Is dragging in this issue, three significant events REFORM, ESPECIALLY a group of students through the give reason to think that the path to IN THE LIGHT OF THE courts for three years for making a reform is opening up. The first was QUT CASE. political statement—'QUT stopping the virtually unprecedented show of segregation with segregation'—really support for Senator Cory Bernardi’s Policy change cannot proceed without an example of 18C working well? Notice of Motion that he was going compromise, and in this we have Finally, there is good reason to to reintroduce a private member's bill a compromise position that will believe that the public is swinging to amend 18C that had lapsed at the genuinely remove one of the most behind reform, especially in the light 2016 federal election. The bill—first meaningful restrictions on free speech of the QUT case. An Essential poll introduced by Family First Senator Bob in Australia. published in September this year Day in September 2014—removes the The second event hardly can be found that 45 per cent of Australians words 'offend' and 'insult' from 18C. described as an 'event' at all, as it has approved of the proposal to remove In the last parliament the bill had been dragged out to a farcical extent. offend and insult from 18C while a handful of supporters. But in this In May 2013 an engineering student at leaving humiliate and intimidate parliament, 20 Senators co-signed Queensland University of Technology in place, including 56 per cent of Bernardi’s Notice of Motion— named Alex Wood, and two other Coalition voters. Just 35 per cent including the new senators Derryn students, entered a computer lab at opposed the proposal. It is hard not to Hinch and the One Nation group. The that university and began to study. conclude that 18C is on its last legs. R full Coalition Senate backbench have They were confronted and told that committed to supporting the bill. the lab in question was reserved for Of course, 18C should be abolished indigenous students. The students Note: As this edition of IPA Review was outright, not merely amended. The then left. Wood subsequently posted going to print, it was revealed on 15 Oct 2016 that the Australian Human Rights Commision Bernardi / Day bill would mean that on an unofficial Facebook group for had received and will investigate a complaint it was still unlawful to 'humiliate' or QUT students that he had: 'Just got against Bill Leak for his cartoon on personal 'intimidate' someone on the basis kicked out of the unsigned indigenous responsibility in the Indigenous community, of their racial, ethnic or national computer room. QUT stopping published in The Australian on 4 August 2016. origins. David Leyonhjelm, the Liberal segregation with segregation'. The IPA Review will have more coverage of Democrat senator from New South As I write this in October 2016, this in the next edition. Wales, has a bill which would repeal the legal fallout of that Facebook NOVEMBER 2016 | IPA Review 1 Editor-in-Chief: Chris Berg Executive Director: John Roskam Printed by: Printgraphics Contents Published by: Institute of Public Affairs Ltd (Incorporated in the ACT) 1 EDITORIAL 4 THE LATEST FROM THE IPA 68 STRANGE TIMES ACN 008 627 727 CHRIS BERG JAMES BOLT Level 2, 410 Collins Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000. Phone: (03) 9600 4744 Fax: (03) 9602 4989 Email: [email protected] FEATURED Editorial Design: Charles Elena Design charleselena.com.au TOXIC LOSING FAITH Reproduction: 10 34 The IPA welcomes The Australian Church has a lot to reproduction of written GREENS learn from their Polish counterparts. material from the How green lawfare is strangling IPA Review, but for FR JAMES GRANT & MORGAN BEGG copyright reasons the Australia with red tape. editor’s permission must first be sought. DARCY ALLEN & DANIEL WILD A LICENCE Views expressed in this 40 publication are those of the authors and do not TO NANNY necessarily reflect the THROTTLING Dangerous notions of ‘social licence’ views of the Institute of 16 destroyed NSW’s greyhound racing Public Affairs. SUPER industry, but Evan Mulholland fears For all the latest news and information, visit us The bipartisan attack on our worse is to come. online at: superannuation system puts EVAN MULHOLLAND www.ipa.org.au Australians' retirement savings at risk. BRETT HOGAN THE HIGH 42 COST OF 20 AUSTRALIA'S POPULISM TAX Populist politics brings with it threats to the trade and deregulation that MUTINEERS has made us prosperous. From the Rum Rebellion to the GEORGINA DOWNER ill-fated mining tax, Australians have a long and proud history of fighting WILL OF unfair taxes. 46 MATTHEW LESH THE PEOPLE History is repeating itself in Britain as the nation’s intelligentsia do their best to stifle democracy. YOUR DINNER 28 BELLA D’ABRERA PARTY SURVIVAL 52 TAMING GUIDE THE FINAL Climate change might be a taboo FRONTIER topic, but Jennifer Marohasy suggests Property rights in outer space will putting the facts about ocean give humans incentive to explore acidification on the table. our skies again. JENNIFER MAROHASY PETER GREGORY Pictured: the Cube building at QUT The repeal of section 18C STRANGE TIMES JAMES BOLT 6 When it comes to freedom of speech, the process is the punishment. MORGAN BEGG BOOKS AND ARTS WAR'S END REVOLUTIONARY 56 A new book shines a light on Australia’s pivotal 64 role in the final days of the First World War. HUMOUR Pop culture meets America’s most loved revolutionary RICHARD ALLSOP war hero in a new book on the life of Lafayette. JAMES BOLT 58 MYTH BUSTING Thomas Sowell uncovers the flawed assumptions on the CREATIVE causes of poverty and inequality. 66 JOHN HAJEK DESTRUCTION A new book predicts a future where city buildings and spaces can evolve to meet change. PRIVATE ORDER STUART EATON 62 The history of private governance offers a glimpse into a world of social and economic freedom. DARCY ALLEN THE LATEST FROM THE IPATo see more of the IPA’s publications go to www.ipa.org.au IPA EVENTS In August 2016, Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked Online, toured Australia with the Institute of Public Affairs to talk about freedom of speech, the Enlightenment and the divide between the elites and the rest. As well as speaking at functions in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and the Gold Coast, O'Neill appeared on ABC TV's Q&A program, The Bolt Report and on campus at the University of Queensland with the IPA's Generation Liberty program. 4 IPA Review | ipa.org.au Volume 68 I 3 THE LATEST FROM THE IPA R IN CONVERSATION WITH BRENDAN O'NEILL RACE HAS NO More than 500 people across Australia saw Brendan PLACEO'Neill when he toured the nation with the IPA. For Thethose IPA who has missedreleased thisout—or short for those who can't get bookletenough—the to IPA's Simon Breheny sat down with Brendan for a conversation on the future of freedom, free to watch on the IPA's YouTube channel.
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