People & associates
Chris Berg
Research Fellow
Chris Berg is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs. He is a regular columnist with ABC's The Drum, and an award-winning former editor of the IPA Review.
His latest book is In Defence of Freedom of Speech: from Ancient Greece to Andrew Bolt.
A monograph, The Growth of Australia's Regulatory State, was published in 2008. He is also the editor of 100 Great Books of Liberty (with John Roskam) published by Connor Court Publishing in 2010, and The National Curriculum: A Critique (2011).
Contact details
Telephone: 0402 257 681
Address: Level 2 410 Collins St, Melbourne 3000 vic
Related publications
How Christians & classical liberals defeated slavery
Slavery is one of the biggest blights on human history. Its abolition is one of humanity's greatest triumphs. But in our secular age it's easy to forget one of the great drivers behind that triumph: how Christianity and free market economists led...
The war on democracy
In 1953 a bitter Bertolt Brecht wrote, 'Would it not be easier / In that case for the government / To dissolve the people / And elect another?' With these lines, Brecht brilliantly captured the dripping contempt that some purportedly 'democratic'...
IPA welcomes dumping of media laws
"The Gillard government's decision to abandon its proposal to regulate the media is a victory for freedom of speech in Australia," said Chris Berg, director of policy at free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. "The media regulation...
Gillard backdown on anti-discrimination laws a victory for free speech
The Institute of Public Affairs, the organisation that led the public campaign against the Gillard government's proposed changes to anti-discrimination laws, said today that the decision to withdraw the legislation was a victory for freedom of...
Conroy media regulation is government licensing in all but name
"Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's proposals for media regulation are a de facto licensing scheme for the print media and a fundamental threat to freedom of the press," said Chris Berg, Research Fellow with the free market think tank the...
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