Do lockdowns work in Europe?
Let us divide the countries in Europe that have at least 1 million inhabitants into three groups: the ones that had high movement restrictions in...
Our superannuation system
[caption id="attachment_35602" align="alignright" width="421"] There's no shortage of fancy illustrations for some topics — like topics in personal finance. This is quite a cute one.[/caption]...
Unseen trends and the society we are becoming.
Societies are evolving and complex, which often makes it hard to see at any moment where things are going. It was thus with the move...
Aborigines and the National Game — by the late John Hirst
[caption id="attachment_35067" align="aligncenter" width="862"] Source: Winter in Australia: Football in the Richmond Paddock (1866) is the earliest known image of a football match in Melbourne.(Supplied:...
What is managed care and can it help fix the Australian private health sector?
This is an edited version of a piece published in Crikey on 2 July 2021. It looks like Australian health funds will get more say in...
Lockdowns and privilege
Consider three graphs that really on their own tell the story of the groups in the US/UK that did well and that did badly economically...