Vision 28
How would you measure the safety of private motor vehicle travel? Let’s agree to focus on fatalities. Serious injuries are also important, but all the...
The Death of Australian Children’s Broadcast Television Programming: by Patricia Edgar
The Director-General of the BBC has now conceded there is a crisis, with young people spending more time viewing Netflix and YouTube than they do...
Evidence based public good provision
One of the big problems with public goods is choosing which to build. The goods themselves are joint in consumption but the community may not know, indeed is...
The Independent Media Inquiry: Six impossible things by February 28th
Right now Ray Finkelstein and Matthew Ricketson, the two members of the federal government's Independent Media Inquiry, are trying to finish off their report to...
Missing link Friday – 28 October 2011
Moving backwards? Opposition leader Tony Abbott's project is "oriented to the past rather than the future, and it seeks to reinstate the past by projectively...
Observations on the Arab Spring (with additions on 28-04)
(memo to self) Probably the most significant geopolitical event of the last 12 months has been the regime change in the Arab world, where the...
The vision thing
If the government changes hands on Saturday, the pundits will make an immediate beeline for their retrospectoscope. Within a few short months and a few...