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Category Archives: Social Policy
Domestic violence in Australia: some things the statistics say (and the media should report)
Amid Australia’s justified concern over male violence against women, we should remember how much we have been able to achieve so far. Some important indicators of violence against women have more than halved in the past three decades. Prologue: Violence … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Interesting Graphs, Media, Social Policy
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The Fertility Rate: the Best Dam(n) Wellbeing Index Going Around?
Valiant attempts have been made to measure happiness and wellbeing. People much smarter than me have developed fancy indices, and people even smarter than that, such as our own Nicholas Gruen, has called bullshit on many of them. What I … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Health, Life, Philosophy, Social Policy, Society
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Economic Ideas and Policy Outcomes: Ross Garnaut’s Gruen Lecture
Below is Ross Garnaut’s lecture in honour of my Dad. Economic Ideas and Policy Outcomes: Applications to Climate and Energy Fred Gruen signed up as Professor of Economics in the ANU’s Research School of Social Sciences in 1972, at the … Continue reading
Critic swallows book
The Sydney Book Review is my kind of book review. It’s online and free. Ever since I joined the blogging revolution in 2005 it’s seemed crazy to me (not to mention precious) that so many of our literary publications are … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Critique, Education, Indigenous, Literature, Social Policy
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How Shorism might win Australia’s federal election
Looking at Australian politics right now, one thing stands out: the federal ALP has become a little Shorist. I don’t know how long it will last, or whether it’s even a conscious strategy. But it’s definitely happening. What does “Shorist” … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy, Education, Employment, Inequality, Politics - national, Social Policy
Tagged Albanese, ALP
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Science and the universe of is: Design and the multiverse of what might be
From a recent podcast interview with Tyson Yunkaporta This post began as a comment on David Walker’s post on David Card’s Nobel Prize for his study which showed that at least in the situation he investigated a smallish rise in … Continue reading
David Card won the 2021 Economics Nobel. Why should we fear minimum wage hikes?
One of economics’ most famous papers – the 1994 minimum wage study by David Card and Alan Krueger – has just won David Card (pictured) half of a Nobel Prize in Economics. The overall reasons for Card’s award are well … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy, Employment, Social Policy
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