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Immigration cuts and housing prices: what research says (and media should report)
Economics and public policy Immigration and refugees Journalism Politics - national

Immigration cuts and housing prices: what research says (and media should report)

David Walker
April 21, 2025April 30, 2025
Most credible researchers believe immigration affects house prices. The questions are: how much, and at what cost? Peter Dutton's Opposition has promised to cut Australian...
How to raise first-home prices: Supercharge demand, and pretend you didn’t
Economics and public policy Politics - national Social Policy

How to raise first-home prices: Supercharge demand, and pretend you didn’t

David Walker
April 13, 2025April 16, 2025
Advice for homebuyers and citizens: home-deductibility and housing guarantee schemes both deserve your derisive laughter, whoever backs them. Introductory note: Things move fast in the...
Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy
Economics and public policy History Politics - international Politics - national

Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy

David Walker
April 5, 2025May 13, 2025
Donald Trump is still  trying to slash his nation's trade deficit. Australians may recognise this task: we tackled it in the late 1980s, failed, and...
12 lessons from the weird, unnoticed end of Australia’s bitter broadband war
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12 lessons from the weird, unnoticed end of Australia’s bitter broadband war

David Walker
December 31, 2024April 3, 2025
What if we held an Australian broadband crisis and nobody came? That's pretty much what happened in Australian broadband policy over the decade to 2025....
Some philosophy is probably fraud; let’s try to find it
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Some philosophy is probably fraud; let’s try to find it

David Walker
November 7, 2024June 10, 2025
If scientific fraud represents five per cent of scientific papers, we might well expect to have a great deal of philosophic fraud as well. But...
Australian male violence against women: what the statistics say (and the media should report)
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Australian male violence against women: what the statistics say (and the media should report)

David Walker
April 29, 2024March 17, 2025
Amid Australia's justified concern over male violence against women, it seems worth keeping in mind our achievements. Femicide, in particular, has more than halved in...
Figuring out the strange new rules of resource constraint
Economics and public policy Employment Immigration and refugees Politics - national

Figuring out the strange new rules of resource constraint

David Walker
February 13, 2024January 15, 2025
Just a decade ago, Australian labour was easy to find and infrastructure projects were often no-brainers. Now our economic times seem to have changed, resources...

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