12 lessons from the weird, unnoticed end of Australia’s bitter broadband war
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....
Minority government would be no bad thing
The common view from politicians and so-called experts is that minority government is dreadful. I don't agree. Nor, it seems, does former Rudd and Gillard...
Nuclear power – nirvana or nonsense?
The federal Coalition's adoption of a policy involving government-owned construction of 7 nuclear power plants around Australia has raised an argument that most people thought...
Sleep promotion takes off globally
I recently published this musing in my Substack newsletter. And coming across a further free kick from the policy world — something that would have...
Figuring out the strange new rules of resource constraint
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...
Democracy: doing it for ourselves
https://youtu.be/6uPex480hRU Above is the video of a presentation I made at NESTA in London on 15th November with discussants Claire Mellior and Martin Wolf. I...
Voice analysis
This post is rather long. If you want a point form summary, scroll down to the bottom. Secondly, this post does not represent the views...