WebCite "Fossil-fuel companies have spent millions funding anti-global-warming think tanks, purposely creating a climate of doubt around the science. [1] The IPA has campaigned heavily against Australia's carbon price legislation. Founded in 1943, the Institute of Public Affairs is the world's oldest free market think tank.
DeSmogBlog is the antidote to that obfuscation." The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is a conservative, non profit free market public policy Historian Michael Bertram, writing in 1989, identified three distinct periods for the Institute of Public Affairs:The Institute of Public Affairs was founded in 1943 as the Institute of Public Affairs Victoria, with The IPA's formation was prompted by the collapse of Australia's main right-wing party, the United Australia Party.Throughout 1943, branches were set up in NSW (May), SA (June) and Queensland (August),The CSS was restructured in late 1943 and it again investigated the IPA's state branches.The IPA had no formal association with the formation of the During the 1950s and 1960s, the IPA "came to wholeheartedly support" In 1962, the IPA dropped "Victoria" from its name, an act that caused relations between it and the IPA NSW to "deteriorate further".In the 1970s, the IPA and IPA NSW cooperated to establish From its founding to the late 1970s, the IPA had been associated with anti-socialist In June 1987 the IPA was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee.In 1989, the IPA NSW – which had always been administratively and ideologically distinct – changed name to the Rod Kemp left his position as executive director in 1989 as he had been elected to Parliament. The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), founded in 1943, describes itself as “an independent, non-profit public policy think tank, dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic and political freedom.” The IPA has campaigned heavily against Australia's carbon price legislation. Kemp's son, According to Cahill (2004: 210) members of the IPA executive from 1976-1984 included Throughout the 1980's the IPA's primary focus was on issues such as economic policy, privatisation and industrial relations policy.
“The Public Affairs Institute is an innovative and unique public affairs experience. The IPA's environment unit director However, Marohasy did not disclose the donation to the committee. For example, IPA Executive Director John Roskam worked on the Liberal Party's election campaign during the The IPA Victoria's ideological position was initially "an amalgam of Keynesianism control and Hayekian regulation", with IPA President Eric Lampe in 1961 saying that the IPA considered government responsibility for full employment, social security, the speed of development, living standards and financial stability "all very necessary".the material condition of all sections of the community is most effectively enhanced by encouraging economic growth through a private enterprise, market-oriented economic system, involving vigorous private enterprise and minimal government interferenceIn the 1990s, the IPA was funded by the tobacco industry to conduct research that "attacked the science behind In 2008, the institute facilitated a donation of $350,000 by Dr G. Bryant Macfie, a climate change denier, to the University of Queensland for environmental research.
The renewable regulations perform no positive function and therefore should, accordingly, be discontinued with immediate effect.”“Those who have been fostering what is essentially a baseless scientific scam have being trying to make the obvious sound absurd and the absurd sound obvious, and we are now going to turn the tables on them,” The money was donated by donated by Bryant Macfie, a long-standing Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science“Climate change is a scientific debate.
It also dabbled in a few broader issues such as the role of the More recently, the IPA has been the driving force behind the establishment of a number of new non-profit In a letter in response, Niall Clugston described Roskam's argument as "disingenuous".