The cry for freedom last week echoed around the vaulted feasting chamber at the National Gallery of Victoria. The hall was packed to its stained-glass rafters with plutocrats, captains of industry, Liberal Party celebs, log-rollers and special pleaders of a variety of stripes.

It was the 70th birthday party of the Institute of Public Affairs. Because the institute never publicly reveals the identity of its donors and is out there proselytising on all manner of clients' causes, it is sometimes referred to as the Institute of Paid Advocacy.

It's 75-point flat earth plan ''to transform Australia'' includes returning income tax powers to the states; scrapping the mining and carbon taxes; abolishing the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Australian Communications and Media Authority; repealing laws that require radio and TV broadcasters to be balanced; closing the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science; privatising a whole heap of government-owned businesses, including SBS; breaking up the ABC and putting its bits and pieces out to tender; abolishing tobacco plain-packaging legislation and the alcopops tax; and, for northern Australia, lowering income taxes, accompanied by the construction of lots of dams. From this agenda it's not difficult to work out who is paying the piper.

Basically, its a return to trickle-down economics, where the institute's rich and powerful cronies are allowed to fatten-up on more government assets, while enjoying lower taxes and less regulation. Sooner or later the benefits of this brazen plunder by oligarchs will trickle down to the rest of us.

Anyway, they were all there last Thursday night, throwing off the chains of oppression and dreaming the dream of freedom: Rupert Murdoch, his bonded attack dog Andrew Bolt, iron queen Gina Rinehart, plus Tony Abbott and a good slab of his front bench, as well as senator Cory Bernardi.

The pocket moistening would have left less-fortified souls wincing in embarrassment, but this was not a night for the squeamish. Murdoch made a powerful speech about the ''morality'' of free markets and how they enrich the world.

Forgotten in the brilliance of the moment was the free market disaster of junk debt products manufactured by Wall Street financiers that led to the collapse of the US economy, exacerbated the debt crisis, threw an enormous number of people out of work and sent whole communities scurrying backwards.

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This is the IPA commandments that Tony Abbott and his crew of loonies are "inspired" from. Be afraid...

"We hope he grasps the opportunity to fundamentally reshape the political culture and stem the assault on individual liberty." (translation: we reserve the right to kick you, you the plebs, with no penalty for doing so.)

1 Repeal the carbon tax, and don't replace it. It will be one thing to remove the burden of the carbon tax from the Australian economy. But if it is just replaced by another costly scheme, most of the benefits will be undone.

2 Abolish the Department of Climate Change

3 Abolish the Clean Energy Fund

4 Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

5 Abandon Australia's bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council

6 Repeal the renewable energy target

7 Return income taxing powers to the states

8 Abolish the Commonwealth Grants Commission

9 Abolish the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

10 Withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol

11 Introduce fee competition to Australian universities

12 Repeal the National Curriculum

13 Introduce competing private secondary school curriculums

14 Abolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)

15 Eliminate laws that require radio and television broadcasters to be balanced'

16 Abolish television spectrum licensing and devolve spectrum management to the common law

17 End local content requirements for Australian television stations

18 Eliminate family tax benefits

19 Abandon the paid parental leave scheme

20 Means-test Medicare

21 End all corporate welfare and subsidies by closing the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

22 Introduce voluntary voting

23 End mandatory disclosures on political donations

24 End media blackout in final days of election campaigns

25 End public funding to political parties

26 Remove antidumping laws

27 Eliminate media ownership restrictions

28 Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board

29 Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency

30 Cease subsidising the car industry

31 Formalise a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction

32 Rule out federal funding for 2018 Commonwealth Games

33 Deregulate the parallel importation of books

34 End preferences for Industry Super Funds in workplace relations laws

35 Legislate a cap on government spending and tax as a percentage of GDP

36 Legislate a balanced budget amendment which strictly limits the size of budget deficits and the period the federal government can be in deficit

37 Force government agencies to put all of their spending online in a searchable database

38 Repeal plain packaging for cigarettes and rule it out for all other products, including alcohol and fast food

39 Reintroduce voluntary student unionism at universities

40 Introduce a voucher scheme for secondary schools (Gus: an introduction to privatisation of public school)

41 Repeal the alcopops tax

42 Introduce a special economic zone in the north of Australia including: 

          a) Lower personal income tax for residents 

          b) Significantly expanded 457 Visa programs for workers 

          c) Encourage the construction of dams

43 Repeal the mining tax

44 Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states

45 Introduce a single rate of income tax with a generous tax-free threshold

46 Cut company tax to an internationally competitive rate of 25 per cent

47 Cease funding the Australia Network

48 Privatise Australia Post

49 Privatise Medibank

50 Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function 

51 Privatise SBS 

52 Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784

53 Repeal the Fair Work Act

54 Allow individuals and employers to negotiate directly terms of employment that suit them

55 Encourage independent contracting by overturning new regulations designed to punish contractors

56 Abolish the Baby Bonus

57 Abolish the First Home Owners' Grant

58 Allow the Northern Territory

59 Halve the size of the Coalition front bench from 32 to 16

60 Remove all remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade

61 Slash top public servant salaries to much lower international standards, like in the United States

62 End all public subsidies to sport and the arts

63 Privatise the Australian Institute of Sport

64 End all hidden protectionist measures, such as preferences for local manufacturers in government tendering

65 Abolish the Office for Film and Literature Classification

66 Rule out any government-supported or mandated internet censorship

67 Means test tertiary student loans 

68 Allow people to opt out of superannuation in exchange for promising to forgo any government income support in retirement

69 Immediately halt construction of the National Broadband Network and privatise any sections that have already been built

70 End all government funded Nanny State advertising (Gus: smoke to your lung cancer content)

71 Reject proposals for compulsory food and alcohol labelling

72 Privatise the CSIRO

73 Defund Harmony Day

74 Close the Office for Youth

75 Privatise the Snowy-Hydro Scheme

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THIS IS COMPLETE CRAP ... AND MOST OF IT WOULD BE COMING TO YOU WITH ABBOTT AND HIS BUNCH OF CRAPPY PIRATES...

And note that cartoonists Zanetti and Warren are merde-och ultra right wing stooges..

These images are easily turned into stickers for your car or wherever you see a LEGAL blank space... Just drag them on your desktop and mount them in a file 3-up. Print on adhesive paper, cut up and the trick is done... There is no shame in panning Tony Abbott... We need you to secure a proper sustainable future for this country. Tony the nazi is boots and all, with the help of his mates Mr Murdoch, Gina and all the crazies at the IPA.

Over the years, Tony has shown to be a hooligan, a philistine, an ignoramus, a negative genius, a shit-stirrer, a sinning crap monk, a liar, a warmonger, a heartless bastard, a closet misogynist and plenty more. 

More stickers to come.

Thank you.

Gus Leonisky.

On Thursday night, they were cheering to the rafters at 410 Collins Street, Melbourne. 

That's the address of the Liberal Party-aligned Institute of Public Affairs, a pseudo think tank but really a lobbying and propaganda factory. 

Many of the IPA's financial supporters have got what they came knocking for. The National Commission of Audit report has delivered and the government is dancing on its hind legs. 

Wretched nuisances like the National Preventive Health Agency is for the chop. That should please the alcohol industry, which has found a willing voice through the IPA. 

The IPA's director, John Roskam, started a piece in The Australian Financial Review earlier this year saying: "A lot of nonsense has been written lately about young people, alcohol and violence." He then proceeded to attack a public health academic, Michael Daube. 

Ten days earlier, the IPA's Chris Berg wrote for The Drum on the ABC's website that pub lockouts and 3am closing times were a bad idea because "the Australian public consumes a large quantity of alcohol and gets into very few fights".

Berg thinks the worse thing you could do would be to increase the price of alcohol through taxes. He argues that a lot of the research into alcohol-fuelled violence is limited and gives us distorted outcomes. 

In 2008, one of the IPA's "research fellows" wrote an article called "Big fat beat-up" questioning the relationship between obesity and fatty foods. 

In December last year, Tim Wilson published an extraordinary IPA paper called "Health at all costs? – How health-first paternalism is promoted by government to corrode choice". 

You get the picture: "Health-first paternalist" policies designed to target tobacco are now being replicated on gaming, unhealthy food and alcohol with questionable evidence of their merit or efficacy. 

Again, we saw an attack on the academic studies that underpinned "nanny state" policies. 

Some months ago, Berg, on The Drum, suggested that Australia could face billions of dollars of compensation because of the introduction of cigarette plain packaging. This was based on material apparently provided under freedom of information from IP Australia. 

When Stewart Fist, a former journalist, sought the material from IP Australia that it had provided to the IPA, he was told "the claims made by the IPA are incorrect and misleading"