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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....
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Mime, misdirection and pyramid of code

Nicholas Gruen
December 12, 2024
The Gregorian revolution gave rise to a form of organisation that was gradually stamped out all over the Western world and then to its followers. Constitutional...
Economics and public policy Immigration and refugees Politics - international

Trump would be a disaster for the world economy (and climate change)

Ken Parish
November 6, 2024November 6, 2024
As the US presidential election count continues, it becomes increasingly likely that Donald Trump will win. It appears that the majority of Americans believe that...
Get The Great Housing Hijack Into Your Brain
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Get The Great Housing Hijack Into Your Brain

Antonios Sarhanis
October 31, 2024October 31, 2024
Cameron Murray’s The Great Housing Hijack is self-recommending. You certainly don’t need a review of any sort to tell you to go read it if...

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