The IPA is no Breitbart, as they are (sadly) definitely an Establishment think thank. However, they do lean extremely right wing and have been rented by the hou

The IPA is no Breitbart, as they are (sadly) definitely an Establishment think thank. However, they do lean extremely right wing and have been rented by the hour by the tobacco and fossil fuels lobby and are more or less owned by Gina Reinhart (like you say). They've even been commissioned by the government in the past to investigate bias in NGOs (!). The idea that they are principled free speech defenders is pretty funny. There's a lot of rhetoric about thin-skinned millennials, but if you want to see a real triggered snowflake, just ask someone from the Murdoch press about whether we are showing a little too much reverence on Anzac day, or share a couple anecdotes about some of the less savory ways that Australia came to be controlled by white Europeans. I don't think the IPA has any track record of defending freedom of speech unless it's either (a) conservative or (b) a left-on-left fracas where a bit of bastardry is useful (i.e. spats about feminism where rushing to the defense of one feminist is primarily a good way of putting the boot into another).